Policies and Lack of Investments Created the Tinderbox.
COVID is the current match.
To properly rebuild, it will take all of us to rectify history and work towards more equitable conditions for all of us to thrive. Our goal is to build community power, wealth and wellness through accountability, transparency and action.
The following are a series of reflection questions that are meant to spur ideas on how each sector can rethink, reimagine and take action in their work:
Questions for Philanthropy
HISTORY
What is your community’s history and how does it tie to the impact of COVID?
PRESENT
How could this information shift your investments in health, education, economic development?
How can our investments underpin locally sourced power?
What data can you contribute to increase transparency and document the shifts in investments and locally sourced power?
FUTURE
How can we be aggressively intentional in our planning with each other and across sector with this in mind?
What are potential outcomes that our collective planning might achieve?
Questions for Private Sector
HISTORY
What is your corporation’s history with community investment i.e., business practices, pro bono services, philanthropic supports and how does it tie to the impacts of COVID? How do those investments perpetuate or mitigate the impacts? In the last five years? 10 years?
PRESENT
How could this information shift your investments in economic development, equitable hiring practices, and worker investments and protections specifically Black and Latinx residents, women and others disproportionally impacted by COVID?
How can your HR practices, business practices, CSR efforts, philanthropic giving embed accountability to your local communities (e.g., workers, community members)?
What data can you contribute to increase transparency and document the shifts in investments in workforce and community accountability?
FUTURE
How can you be aggressively intentional in our economic development, equitable hiring practices, and worker investments and protections to enhance workforce wellness and equitable communities?
What are potential outcomes that our collective planning might achieve?