Updates - Emerald Cities Collaborative

ECC joins The PostCarbon Institute's on-line course on Resilience!

Posted September 26, 2018

Want to help your community respond to our climate, energy, and inequity crises? Build your skills with Think Resilience, a guided online course from Post Carbon Institute. A special six-week offering of this course starting October 9th features group webinars led by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg, who will be joined by special guests climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe…

NEW REPORT ON ANCHOR-COMMUNITY RESILIENCE STRATEGIES

Posted September 6, 2018

Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice "ANNOUNCING NEW REPORT ON ANCHOR-COMMUNITY RESILIENCE STRATEGIES Health Institutions are increasingly looking upstream - to social, economic and environmental factors -- to promote wellness. As a result they can potentially become valued partners in advancing community resilience. Ce…

Inclusive Procurement and Contracting

Posted April 3, 2018 | by Denise Fairchild

Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice Denise Fairchild and Kalima Rose "Announcing New Study on Inclusive Procurement and Contracting" This study, co-authored by Emerald Cities and PolicyLink, and generously supported by a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, surveys the current landscape on inclu…

EC Cleveland, Regional Sewer District Join Forces to Expand Opportunities for Disadvantaged Contractors in NE Ohio

Posted December 18, 2017

In its ongoing work to expand contracting opportunities for MWSBE (Minority-owned, Woman-owned or Small Business Enterprise) businesses in Northeast Ohio, EC Cleveland has graduated 13 contractors from the second session of its Cleveland/Cuyahoga E-Contractor Academy. Those individuals are now eligible for ongoing technical assistance through December 2018. The academy prepares MWSB…

Anchors in Resilient Communities (ARC) Case Studies Now Available

Posted December 4, 2017

Anchor Institutions Help Build Community Health, Wealth, Climate Resilience With support from the Kresge Foundation, ECC has produced a set of reports detailing how its work harnessing the purchasing power and presence of anchor institutions – primarily hospitals – is helping to build health, wealth and climate resilience in three low-income communities of color: East Ba…

CA Community Choice Energy Summit Comes to Bay Area November 14-16

Posted September 27, 2017

EC San Francisco Director Avni Jamdar Will Speak on Closing Panel Registration is now open for the Community Choice Energy Summit, where existing California community choice aggregators (CCAs) will share insights and best practices with emerging CCAs. According to event organizers, the California Public Utilities Commission says CCAs could serve up to 85 percent of the state’s…

Summit on Water Infrastructure Investments Draws ECC Delegation -- Water infrastructure Issues Resonate with ECC’s Focus on Equity Inclusion

Posted August 15, 2017

With ECC increasingly addressing the energy-water nexus and working to ensure that water infrastructure investments equitably benefit low-income communities of color, a group of ECC board and staff members attended the US Water Alliance’s recent One Water Summit 2017. Comprising one of 25 delegations to the summit, they brought ECC’s focus on equity inclusion in the green …

BuildNOLA Advances Minority Businesses, Workers in New Orleans

Posted July 5, 2017

In less than two years, BuildNOLA – a city program that prepares local small and disadvantaged New Orleans contractors to bid competitively for public- and private-sector projects – is already improving the landscape for local African-American-owned companies and local workers. Network for Economic Opportunity Executive Director Ashleigh Gardere assembled a …

BuildNOLA Profile: Marlene Wade, HAS Construction

Posted July 4, 2017

An email promoting BuildNOLA caught the attention of Marlene Wade of HAS Construction because of “the curriculum aimed at helping small businesses compete” in areas such as bonding, insurance and estimating costs for construction, marketing and goods and services. The New Orleans native’s career has grown and evolved over the years. “I never turn down an opportunit…

BuildNOLA Profile: Otis Tucker, Jr., Trucking Innovation

Posted July 4, 2017

Otis Tucker, Jr., owner of trucking and hauling firm Trucking Innovation, has been in that line of work since March 2013. Since completing BuildNOLA in late 2016, he has won more than a half dozen public-sector contracts. Tucker heard about BuildNOLA at the city’s Office of Supplier Diversity, which “was created to help mitigate the effects of past and present social and econo…