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03/19/2020
Virtual rally today at 1:00 pm ET!
Gamaliel is adding their voice to the growing number of organizations and advocacy groups pushing to address the potential crisis that the COVID-19 outbreak poses for incarcerated people.
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Gamaliel Network
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07/16/2019
Wonderful to see the increasing number of Tennessee organizations participating in community benefits agreements! The BB&T/ Suntrust merger will make the new Truist Bank the 6th largest in the country. Dedicated commitments to investment for low-income applicants and communities is a strong first step towards more equitable lending.
Read more at:
https://ncrc.org/bbt-suntrust-and-ncrc-announce-60-billion-community-investment-commitment-for-new-truist-bank/?mc_cid=022b0db322&mc_eid=6510d3bd0a
The new Chattanooga Community Benefits Coalition page is now up! Please Like to stay informed on progress and action steps.
East Chattanooga Neighborhoods Leadership East Chattanooga Neighborhood Leadership is working to bring together presidents, officers and other residents from East Chattanooga's neighborhood associations in order to strengthen our collective voice.
03/10/2019
“Organizers said the next step will be adding the support of more local organizations to the coalition and canvassing East Chattanooga with surveys to see what residents who didn't attend the meeting might want in a community benefits agreement tied to the sale of the Tubman site.
“This type of broad-based community organizing has, for the most part, been absent from the city since Chattanooga Venture — the foundation-backed nonprofit that sparked the renaissance with its community-wide visioning process — lost its funding in the 1990s, just as it was beginning to train neighborhood leaders how to organize and represent their interests at City Hall.
“Several city staff members and council members were present, mingling, looking on. The energy in the room was palpable.”
New coaltion wants business tax breaks to require community benefit Nearly a hundred people gathered in East Chattanooga on Saturday — despite rain and fog — to launch a grassroots coalition set on pressuring Chattanooga City Council members to refuse support for the sale of the city-owned former Tubman public housing site unless the buyer signs a community bene...
03/09/2019