Q&A
MOERJ's collaboration with other offices and community organizations
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Commissioner Sherman elaborates on MOERJ's collaborations with various offices and community organizations. Council Member Williams requests a list of nonprofit organizations MOERJ works with.
- MOERJ collaborates with the Civic Engagement Commission to fund neighborhood coalitions
- The office works with community-based coalitions in 33 'tree equity' neighborhoods
- Council Member Williams emphasizes the importance of knowing which organizations are actively engaged in this work
Sideya Sherman
0:20:44
And so we work in a variety of ways to engage leaders.
0:20:47
The other thing that I would point out is that our office in collaboration with the Civic Engagement Commission for the last three or four years has funded neighborhood coalitions across our 33 tree equity neighborhoods.
0:21:01
So these are community based coalitions that are really providing advancing local projects, but also providing the local infrastructure necessary to engage with government.
0:21:15
And so as we've gone through this racial equity planning process, we've relied on our partners and the Commission on Racial Equity who have been engaging the public to share community equity priorities, but the Commission has also engaged that network that's part of the the tree network.
0:21:29
So there's a variety of ways in which we are connecting to partners and engaging and we will continue to do so.
Nantasha M. Williams
0:21:36
Thank you.
0:21:37
Would you be able to share like a list of like the nonprofit?
Sideya Sherman
0:21:41
Sure, yeah there's a range of groups including organizations like the NAACP, the groups of courses.
Nantasha M. Williams
0:21:47
No, I'm hearing that, like later.
Sideya Sherman
0:21:49
We'll send, we'll share that.
Nantasha M. Williams
0:21:52
Again you know we've been having a lot of like conversations and one of the things in a conversation that we have had previously is like well who are these organizations doing the work?
0:22:03
Just for our own personal information, we'd love to know and I'm sure some of it might be duplicative but because you're actively engaged in this work, it would be good to just know what are the organizations you're working with.
0:22:13
Thank you.