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Meaningful Community Engagement in Place-Based Initiatives Introduction to APANO Culturally Specific Organization Statewide Advocacy Key Programs Areas Community Organizing Civic Engagement & Policy Advocacy
Meaningful Community Engagement in Place-Based Initiatives
○ Community Organizing ○ Civic Engagement & Policy Advocacy ○ Leadership Development ○ Cultural Work ○ Community Development
Center
Neighborhoods
including majority minority census tract.
Islanders
1)What works in my community may not work in your
2)Engagement pitfalls is not a “hall of shame” but an
4)Overall goal is systems change.
(Community engagement fatigue)
interpretation, time is not valued (2 hour meeting downtown at 9 am)
because there are greater needs. (bus fare too expensive vs. e-fares)
processes (construction begins in 2020, what about the next 3 years)
community engagement and “how much engagement does $X amount get me). “Consultants leave, you and I stay.”
divide (reliance on online surveys, emails. The digital
group is not enough)
Put Community at the Decision Making Table & Fund Them
innovation)
1)Start with Community Visioning (See Jade District Vision or Livable Lents Plan) The Community sets the agenda. Don’t come into a neighborhood and tell them what they need. 2)Build Broad Coalitions to achieve community goals. 3)Set achievable short, medium, and long term goals. 4)Hold yourself, agencies, politicians accountable to your community vision. All your resources must be deployed strategically.
Held in Cantonese, Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish, and English. Priorities focused on built environment but touched upon health, education, and transportation. Individual community workshops followed by a community wide charette. Nearly 200 participants from community members across socioeconomic and age groups.
Jade District Night Market 100 Local Vendors Cultural Displays and Performances 25,000 Visitors Organizing Opportunity Now entering our 4th year Start with low-hanging, visible wins! Set the agenda.
Community Organizing: APANO’s organizing is rooted in the belief that those most affected by an issue should be the ones shaping the
year-round work to support our members in identifying and prioritizing the issues APANO works on, building skills, knowledge and confidence through APANO campaigns, and increasingly taking on public leadership.
Strong base building that can be activated for community engagement requirements. May be working on other key issues, but can weigh in effectively for community engagement.
But also contributed to public planning, school boundary changes, access to transportation
Leadership Development: Through an organization- wide leadership development model, APANO aims to grow the analysis, skills and confidence of Asian and Pacific Islanders to take action to improve their lives and achieve social justice for future generations. We meet people where they are, ask critical questions, discuss the issues that are impacting their lives, collectively develop shared analyses, and support them in taking action and leadership together.
Appointed seats to Powell Division Steering Committee, Vision Zero Task Force, ODOT Region 1 Area Commission on Transportation, CACs, BACs.
“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”
Cultural Work: By elevating members’ stories and connecting them to issues, APANO aims to advance a long-term cultural strategy to impact beliefs, actions and policies through centering the voices of those most impacted and silenced, resisting and shifting harmful narratives and ideas, and moving beyond defensive strategies to envisioning alternatives. We are working to create a vibrant space where artists and communities are shifting perceptions and re-envisioning an equitable world through the tool of creative expression.
Hotels)
Shifting Hearts and Minds Bringing new voices to the Table Create new neighborhood narrative
Case Study in Community Engagement
Division BRT line is a 15-mile corridor ▪ Very high transit ridership ▪ Connects high schools and higher education ▪ Most diverse part of Oregon ▪ Need for public investments in East Portland ▪ Anticipated construction in 2020
Elected officials Agency leaders Educational institutions Housing advocates Health advocates Environmental justice advocates ▪ Communities of color ▪ Neighborhood associations ▪ Transit riders ▪ Business representatives ▪ Environmental advocates
➢ Multi-Cultural Community Outreach ➢ Youth Outreach
What the Community Won Strategies Used 48 Units of Affordable Housing & Culturally Specific Community Center Community Visioning led to property acquisition from Metro TOD program. 350-650 units of new affordable housing along Division BRT Route & Small Business Mitigation Fund, Workforce Navigation. Leadership Development & Organizing: led to adoption of mitigation strategies in Portland Action Plan and community benefit agreements Commitment for new North-South Trimet Line in East Portland Organizing & Cultural Work: Community spoke, rapped, created art about this need. Funding for new Neighborhood Greenway in the 70s blocks. Leadership Development: Appointment to critical ODOT’s Region 1 ACT Added safety improvements including more crosswalks, sidewalks, bike infrastructure Advocacy, Data, Tragedy. Strong partnerships with PBOT to apply for funding in co-developed projects (RFF).
Jade District Vision: http://jadedistrict.org/our-vision/ Jade Division Midway Art Plan: http://www.apano.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/JDMW-ArtPlan-Final_C.pdf Livable Lents Report & Methodology: http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/usp_murp/131/ Oregon Solutions Project Page: http://orsolutions.org/osproject/jade-greening-project