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

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

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 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

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.