Community and civic engagement in the CAN community (and in adjacent neighborhoods) has often yielded resident feedback about imbalances between the rationale for investments and the ultimate beneficiaries of those resources.

During this Affinity Caucus space, project staff, City officials, and community based organization (CBO) representatives will have a chance to participate in rotating feedback sessions led by residents. The focus of this caucus will be West Fresno Black/Brown Solidarity and Strategy development.

Project staff, City officials, and CBO representatives will keep a journal of thoughts and reflections throughout the caucus. These journals entries will be sorted into actionable follow-up or planning interventions and those details will be shared back to the caucus participants for transparency and for use in further community conversations about racial equity and social justice.

This event is one in a series of engagement activations designed get to the heart of a dignity-infused, resident-centered experience. The core desired outcomes among all the activations are to activate people to self-determine how they’d like to grow their environments/communities and to spark new ideas and action-oriented civic engagement and ways of being.

Register for the caucus at bit.ly/can-caucus21.

We want to hear what you think! Use this link to share your answers to the questions listed here. These questions will be discussed during the caucus and your responses will help guide the discussion.