AGENCY TESTIMONY
Community engagement efforts and feedback collection methods
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Linda Tigani details CORE's extensive community engagement efforts and the various methods used to collect feedback on the draft community equity priorities. These efforts aimed to ensure broad community input in the racial equity planning process.
- Feedback was collected from May through August 2024
- Multiple avenues for feedback included online surveys in 12 languages, email testimony, and community conversations
- CORE partnered with 42 organizations across five boroughs, yielding 220 community conversations
- $410,000 was spent on community organizing and engagement, with $390,000 going directly to community organizations
Linda Tigani
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Both the public and government partners were able to provide feedback through any of the following avenues.
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An online survey available in 12 languages, public testimony via email, host a CEP or community equity priority community conversation led by a community member or invite CORE to lead a CEP community conversation.
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We collected feedback from May through August of twenty twenty four.
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At the close of the inaugural engagement campaign, 16 community equity priorities were finalized and we added two new community equity priorities, all of which are reflected in the final two pages of the testimony.
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Throughout our engagement, CORE worked with community to better understand and identify who are the communities harmed by racism and social injustice.
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The New York City charter identifies following groups as marginalized, black, indigenous, Latinx, Asian, pacific islander, middle eastern, and other people of color, women, religious minorities, immigrants, and people who are LGBTQ plus and people with disabilities.
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Community members shared that they want CORE to include the following groups to receive particular consideration youth, elders, people who are incarcerated, and people who are unhoused.
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Additionally, they requested that Middle Eastern category be extended to include North African and LGBTQ plus be extended to include intersex and asexual.
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I would like to take this opportunity to highlight that the New York City charter, our city constitution, upholds the LGBTQ plus IA community as one that has experienced racism and discrimination.
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The charter calls on us as government to stand firm in our support and protection for the rights of the LGBTQIA plus community, including their right to safety, prosperity, and their right to receiving gender affirming care from New York City Government and government contractors.
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Our organizing and engagement practice strives to center communities harmed by racism and social injustice.