What’s Different When the Community Collects the Data?

by lizfry | Jan 6, 2023 | Emerging Focus Areras

This story discusses nine Massachusetts communities where residents were recruited to conduct an annual study that examines community change and health and how this method changed how and what data was collected. 

Guide to Equitable, Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning

by lizfry | Oct 6, 2022 | Equity

This guide aims to assist local governments in designing and implementing a community-driven, equitable climate preparedness planning process. The guide takes an equity-centered approach to adaptation planning, provides a framework for understanding and addressing the...

Do No Harm Guide: Additional Perspectives on Data Equity

by lizfry | Oct 3, 2022 | Equity

This report explains how data practitioners have historically fallen short in data collection, application, and representation, leading to lasting harm and distrust of researchers and fewer pathways for advancement in data fields. It also contains recommendations for...

Our Progression to a Future of Belonging: Identity, Targeted Universalism, and Building the Bridges to Tomorrow

by communitycommo | Apr 28, 2021 | Uncategorized

In this keynote address, john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and UC Berkeley Professor of Law, African American & Ethnic Studies, discusses a future grounded in a recognition that our identities and our sense of selves are more open,...

Dialogue as a Process for Community Change

by communitycommo | Apr 27, 2020 | Uncategorized

In spite of all the hard work and valiant effort, there has never really been a blueprint to addressing and overturning the hard issues that affect our society. Racism persists. Homelessness persists. Poverty persists. There’s no perfect playbook that outlines...