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Section 6. Promoting Community-Friendly Policies in Business and Goverment

Promoting Community-Friendly Policies

• What do we mean by community-friendly policies?

• Community-friendly policies are those social, economic, health, and environmental policies that make the community healthier and improve its quality of life.

• Community-friendly policies respect cultural and other diversity, community history, and environmental integrity.

• Community-friendly policies regard each community as unique, and take its characteristics into account.

• Community-friendly policies use the community as the context for policy-making

• Why promote community-friendly policies?

• Community-friendly policies help everyone in the community.

• Community-friendly policies promote equity.

• Community-friendly policies promote diversity.

• Community-friendly policies are good for business.

• Community-friendly policies help politicians get reelected.

• Community-friendly policies promote community health, environmental quality, financial stability, and social justice.

• When would you promote community-friendly policies?

• When policy is specifically being debated. 

• When something new is about to be started. 

• When there\'s an election.

• When there\'s a crisis in the making

• When there\'s a public groundswell for community-friendly policy in a specific area.

• When the community is invited to the table

• Who should promote community-friendly policies?

• Everyone.

• Stakeholders (i.e. those most directly affected by the policy).

• Community activists.

• Particular populations or groups who may have an interest (language minorities, public housing tenants, parents of children in the schools, the business community, low-income workers, etc.)

• Public officials, both elected and appointed.

• Public employees (who may be asked to carry out or administer policy).

• Community-based organizations and community coalitions.

• Educational institutions.