12pm - 1pm Eastern Time

To address rising inequality, many Canadian municipalities have implemented neighborhood-level interventions to address poverty and other social ills. Using our work with Hamilton, Ontario’s Neighbourhood Action Strategy as a case example, this webinar will discuss ways of evaluating the planning, implementation, and ultimate outcomes of these kinds of interventions. In particular, we will focus on the lessons we have learned while evaluating large-scale, multi-stakeholder interventions that bundle together multiple projects, working with a variety of diverse stakeholders and communicating our findings to decision-makers.  

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About Sarah Wakefield

Sarah Wakefield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto; she is also the Director of the Health Studies Program in University College.  Her research has two main themes: (1) food security policy and practice; and (2) improving neighbourhood health through participatory community development and community-based research. These areas are connected by an overarching interest in understanding how individuals and organizations work together to create just, healthy, and sustainable communities. She works closely with community organizations and health policy actors to enhance the relevance of her research. Her recent work in partnership with the City of Hamilton investigates the planning and implementation of the Neighbourhood Action Strategy, a multi-stakeholder partnership focused on helping residents develop local action plans, and implementing those plans to build healthier neighbourhoods.

10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern

What Cities and Counties Can Do

Across the country, communities and local governments are leading efforts to ensure that economic development delivers real community benefits like good jobs for local residents, community stability and housing that people can afford, community amenities like grocery stores and health clinics and environmental mitigation. City and county officials and staff and their community partners have pioneered new tools for success. Come learn what strategies are most effective, what pitfalls to avoid and what are the latest success stories.

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Advance registration is required

Presenters include:

• Mike O’Brien, City Councilmember, City of Seattle. Councilmember O’Brien has led a number of efforts to establish community benefits in new economic development amidst an exploding real estate market.
• Jahmese Myres, Planning Commissioner, City of Oakland and Campaign Director, EBASE. Commissioner Myres has both led coalition efforts to win community benefits and worked as a planning commissioner on land use measures that support community benefits.
• Ben Beach, Director of the Community Benefits Law Center and a national expert on community benefits

Who should attend?

• Elected and appointed officials 
• City and County staff who work on economic development, workforce development, and planning 
• City and County attorneys 
• Organizations that work with local government on community benefits 

Local Progress is a national municipal policy network. 
For more information please visit localprogress.org

10:00am to 11:00am Pacific Time

Join Rosemary Cooper and Vanessa Timmer from One Earth, the lead authors of the Local Governments and the Sharing Economy Roadmap for a discussion about the role that cities can play in aligning sharing economy activities with their own objectives, including moving towards sustainability.

The roadmap describes a sustainability filter which we use to analyze shared mobility, spaces, and goods and community sharing, and to take a lighter look at shared food and energy.

• Discover what cities including Montréal, Austin, Vancouver, Portland and Toronto are doing to lead the way and what roles local governments can play in the Sharing Economy.
• Find out if car sharing, co-working spaces, clothing swaps and other Sharing Economy activities reduce our ecological footprints and increase social connection and resilience.
• Explore our analysis of Sharing Economy actors from community innovators to for-profit players such as Airbnb and Uber to the public sector.

Register for the Local Governments and the Sharing Economy Roadmap Webinar

Read the Local Governments and the Sharing Economy report

This is a free and public webinar. We welcome you to invite your colleagues to register as well.

Thank you to the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation for supporting this roadmap and project as part of Cities for People.