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Predicting the Future: Sustainable Support for Transit AICP CM 1.5 How do you build and maintain support for future transit investment? How do you rally business leaders, riders, policymakers and opinion leaders behind your cause? Explore three approaches from three areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul's Corridors of Opportunity Innovative Engagement Models, created by a grassroots coalition; Washington state's Transportation Choices Coalition's successful proactive campaigns; and TriMet Portland's regional transit agency's use of field organizing strategies to engage riders and opinion leaders. Moderator: Jennifer Harmening Thiede, Communications Associate & Member Engagement Manager, Transit for Livable Communities, St. Paul, Minnesota Repa Mekha, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nexus Community Partners, St. Paul, Minnesota Diane Goodwin, Manager of Public Affairs, TriMet, Portland, Oregon Andrew Austin, Policy Director, Transportation Choices, Seattle, Washington
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Predicting the Future: Sustainable Support for TransitRail~Volution 2014Saint Paul, MN
Our PresentersJENNIFER HARMENING THIEDETransit for Livable Communities
REPA MEKHANexus Community Partners
ANDREW AUSTINTransportation Choices
DIANE GOODWINTriMet
Session OverviewBuilding community engagement, political will, and agency action
Twin Cities Region
HUDSustainable
Communities Regional
Planning Grant
LIVING CITIESIntegration Initiative
Corridors of Opportunity
Partnership for Regional Opportunity
Transition
2014
Transition
2015
Corridors of Opportunity Policy Board: state, regional & local government, business groups, non-profits, foundations
Purpose: to develop targeted strategies that engage underrepresented communities in planning, decision-making, and implementation processes on and around transit-oriented corridors.
Creating Common Ground
A Community Engagement Team (CET)Advises the Policy Board on community engagement best practices
A: to provide funding and technical support to community based organizations
B: Influence decision-making structures
To ensure underrepresented communities are a powerful voice in creating an equitable regional transit system. We will work with
community stakeholders & policy makers to:
Set regional standards for community engagement
Ensure underrepresented communities can leverage community benefits
Secure equitable development from public investments in our regional transit-ways
Expand resources to build the capacity of community groups to influence transit-way planning
Advise CET team, policymakers and COO Policy Board on regional community engagement issues
Building a New Inclusion ModelCommunity Engagement Steering Committee Purpose
Building New Inclusion Models
Develop grant award guidelines & applications Establish opportunity framework Review and score proposals, conduct site visits, make
grant recommendations to CET $750,000 in grant awards to
community based organizations
Community Engagement Grant Review Committee Purpose:
Bridging & Relationship Building
O Met CouncilO CountiesO City Corridor ManagersO Policy BoardO Cross-sector Community Learning Forums
Early ImpactO Grantees $750,000 in federal funds and $250,000 in
philanthropy and technical support Bridging relationships with city, county, and Met Council
staff Cross-corridor Community Engagement Steering
Committee working directly with Met Council
Entrepreneurship Training
Early ImpactO Policy & Systems Change Definition of Equitable Development/Equitable
Development Principle MC Equity Criteria: Livable Communities Act–TOD $32
million & Local Implementation Capacity Grants $953K Fair Housing Equity Assessment HUD requirement Thrive MSP 2040 engagement practice & policy Community Advisory Committee
Early Impact
O Developing & Sharing Knowledge National Conferences Living Cities Integration Initiative Learning Session HUD Presentation Model Replication
EvaluationO Wilder Research Grantee outcomes & impact
Systems/policy impact
CET model
O Works Progress Documentary
O Policylink Case Study Twin Cities case study
“The stone that the builder refused, will always be the
head cornerstone.”Bob Marley
Building Transit’s Political Power
Andrew Austin@TransitdudePolicy Director
Transportation [email protected]
Who we are
• Transportation Choices is a non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington State that works to expand and save public transit across the state and promote smart transportation policy ideas
• Staff of 6• Education, politics, advocacy, and policy• Transportationchoices.org
Transit is a #2, #3, or #4 issue for many
But a #1 issue for very fewCultivating our friends: Building relationships with business, labor, social-justice partners to
win on transit.
Strength in AlliesTransit advocates only as powerful as their closest
friends!Business, agencies, unions, riders, advocates can’t win
alone Together we can succeed,
when coalitions are diverse and relationships are strong.
Identifying Self-InterestMeeting people where THEY are at.
Important Coalition Partners1. The Transit Agency!2. Transit Advocacy & Rider Organizing groups3. ATU and the Broader Labor Community4. Social justice & environmental justice orgs.5. Environmental, cycling and walking, smart
growth (transit nerds)6. Social Service providers & low-wealth advocates7. Local Chamber of Commerce & businesses
Triangle of Influence State and Local Levels
Smart Policy Ideas & Funding
State and local Elected officials
Agency, biz., labor and
community partners
Ultimately to achieve our goals
We have to MOVE State and local Elected officials:
Either by electing die hard champions or Convincing swing legislators
What’s Aren’t we doing
Electoral work officially as an organization to:• Elect transit champions on the local and state
level• Strengthen relationships with candidates and
elected officials• Ultimately expand our political power to
achieve our organizational policy goals.
State and local Elected officials
Why do we need this a stronger political voice?
Because we aren’t winning on our good ideas alone
In Summary1.Make friends as transit’s power often
relies on the strength of our friends, allies, coalition partners.
2.Expand our reach directly into the political arena (501c4s, PACs, Electoral work)
Together build transit (and its riders) political power.
Sustainable Support for Transit
Diane GoodwinTriMet Manager of Public Affairs
Portland’s Evolving Landscape
New Approach: Engage Riders1. Build network of
supporters (data!)2. Educate & engage
network3. Mobilize
Online Engagement: Riders Club, Social Media
Offline Engagement: Build Personal Relationships
Preview New Public Art with Artist
Coffees with General Manager, Board Members
Offline Engagement: Build Personal Relationships
Offline Engagement: Build Personal Relationships
Behind the Scenes Tours
Contest to Drive A TriMet Bus
Offline Engagement: Build Personal Relationships
Rider Blogs: Tell us Your StoryContest for a Monthly Pass
Engage Employers, Small Business
Engage Employers, Small Business
Tilikum Crossing Tours
Profiles of Small Businesses
• Riders Club membership• Participation in events• Support in Salem (Gearing up for 2015)• Rider and Opinion Surveys • Support for new revenue, new transit
Measuring Our Success
DiscussionAsk questions and shareyour experience