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metro/regional equity events... Communities & Opportunities for All Saturday,
May 21, 2011 -- 9am-2pm For
more information please click
here for announcement Please share this reminder widely with your networks! Climate Change, Sustainable Community Strategies and Health Equity
PLEASE SAVE THE DATES
San Diego County Region May 21, 2011
Sonoma County Region June 4, 2011
Sacramento County Region June 13, 2011
"...an African American born in West Oakland can expect to die almost 15 years earlier than a White person born in the Oakland Hills."
LIFE and DEATH from UNNATURAL CAUSES HEALTH AND SOCIAL INEQUITY IN ALAMEDA COUNTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As part of a grant from The California Endowment, Breakthrough Communities is engaging people of color throughout California in informing and implementing Health in All Policies (HiAP) Task Force recommendations in order to respond to the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (SB375) and address health disparities caused by land use and transportation policies.
Breathrough Communities has gathered information on health disparities in five metropolitan areas across the state and engaged in dialogue and planning workshops about SB 375 with NGO leaders of social movements and representatives of vulnerable communities. With Gamaliel of California we are co-creating workshops in both Spanish and English designed to reach these communities by developing and distributing a Climate Change, Sustainable Community Strategies, and Health Equity toolkit for use by community groups in the SB375 process that highlights the "6 Big Wins" and generates concrete policy recommendations that address the fatal disparities from which our communities suffer.
Please join in, add your voice and your story, and help create the political traction that can save lives and make a future for the generations that follow.
We gratefully acknowledge our funders in support of this work: The California Endowment, the San Francisco Foundation, the Angeles Arrien Foundation, the California Health Department, and the San Diego Foundation.
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(Please visit: www.womensfacultyclub.com/direction.html for directions.)
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Special Events 2006: from
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May 23-25, 2005: Advancing Regional Equity:
The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart
Growth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was co-convened by PolicyLink and the Funders’ Network for
Smart Growth and Livable Communities. Summit
participants included leaders and advocates from the non-profit, public policy,
philanthropy, business, and academic arenas that share a commitment to full
economic and racial inclusion based on the belief that everyone should have the
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The Race & Regionalism Conference 2005 took place in downtown Minneapolis May 6-7, 2005. The conference was a full two-day event. The conference, supported by the Ford Foundation and the University of Minnesota Law School, was an opportunity to explore new legal and empirical scholarship about race and the regions and frankly discuss the possibility of coalitions for regional reform among people of all races. Blacks, whites, Latinos and others met to discuss the growing policy and legal framework that shapes our understanding of racial dynamics in regional affairs. more info
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