TRANSFORMING FOR EQUITY

Advancing Racial Justice

Vital Conditions for Well-being and Justice

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Lifelong Learning

Despite gains in recent decades, gaps persist in educational achievement that disadvantage students from low income backgrounds and communities of color.

Humane Housing

Homelessness in the United States has decreased over the last decade, yet remains persistent, and an indicator of other deep inequities and failures of multiple systems.

Belonging & Civic Muscle

Cultures have been erased, traditions and languages lost, and communities continue to be oppressed and fractured by persistent bigotry, racism, and hate.

Reliable Transportation

Many people can’t or don’t drive, and rely on public transit and other means to get around. While overall traffic deaths have dropped, pedestrian deaths make up an increasing proportion.

Basic Needs for Health & Safety: Public Health

While many factors influence our eating patterns (age, cost, region, culture, personal preferences and behaviors), getting the food and nutrition we need requires that we have access and means. (Link to south carolina’s farmers association/conetoe family life centre)

Meaningful Work & Wealth

Despite gains over the last several decades that have increased women’s participation in the labor force, gender imbalances, discrimination, exploitation and disparities persist.

Thriving Natural World

We are part of the natural world ourselves, and our wellbeing is intimately connected to it. Changing climate is the greatest public health challenge of the 21st Century. Humans distancing ourselves from nature has enabled the environmental degradation observed today.