[ONLINE] – COVID-19 Equitable Relief & Recovery Session 3

While no community has been spared by the current public health crisis, COVID-19 has taken a disproportionate toll on the physical and economic well-being of African-American and Latino communities in America's cities. The Urban America Forward: Equitable Relief & Recovery webinar series highlights practices and partners that prioritize racial equity in their response to the pandemic in eight U.S. cities. We will discuss lessons, promising practices, and models for collaboration with leaders from Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Washington D.C.

Please join us September 14 from 1:00 – 2:30pm EST for the third webinar in this series: “Public-Private Partnerships: Investing in Lives and Livelihoods.” Across the country philanthropy, financial institutions, and municipal leaders have marshaled and deployed resources to bridge financial gaps and lessen financial hardship on critical community business and institutions in some of our hardest hit communities. How have leaders in Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit leveraged and distributed these collective funds to change how communities develop and thrive, versus just survive?

Webinars are open to all, allowing residents and local innovators to access the expertise and insights of national leaders, and will be made available on the New America COVID-19 YouTube playlist. The series will also be syndicated by The Indianapolis Recorder, one of America's oldest Black newspapers.

The Urban America Forward: Equitable Relief & Recovery webinar series highlights practices and partners who are prioritizing racial equity in their response to the pandemic in eight U.S. cities. We will discuss the work of equitable relief, lessons learned, and models for collaboration with leaders from Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Washington D.C.

Webinars are open to all local innovators and community development practitioners to enable the sharing of insights across cities. The series will be made available on the New America COVID-19 YouTube playlist, the Urban America Forward website, and syndicated by The Indianapolis Recorder, one of America's oldest Black newspapers.

Launched in 2015 by the University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement, the Urban America Forward program convenes non-profit, private, public and philanthropic sector leaders, as well as urban researchers and social scientists who are committed to furthering equity in urban America.

New America Local is a geographically distributed team at New America, created in 2015 to work with local communities on issues of racial and economic equity. We build better feedback loops between lived experience and policy design, providing a national platform for local problem solvers.

The University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement, New America Indianapolis, and The National Urban League are honored to host this important and timely conversation with the generous support of our partners: