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Chapter 25. Changing Policies >
Section 6. Promoting Community-Friendly Policies in Business... >
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Checklist
Here you will find a checklist summarizing the important points of the section.
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.