To create a residential package of all of the beneficial energy efficiency, water efficiency, waste & recycling, transportation, and other “green” programs that the City offers and to connect low and moderate income residents to this package of offerings.

Lessons learned about tools and tactics through the project that other sustainability directors could use to advance their work.

Community engagement in more intimate settings with marginalized communities is necessary for the Mayor’s office.  The team learned through the project’s community engagement sessions that building trust and communication with critical communities, and forming a channel to listen and understand hyperlocal issues, is pertinent and crucial to any future policy making or program development. Strategies and tactics for other sustainability directors is to put a premium on genuine and intimate engagement from the Mayor’s office to advance the work of the administration.

Lessons for developing a collaborative process between a local government sustainability director and local place-based foundation(s).

Level-set mutual goals from the beginning. It was very helpful to have initial conversations with the partners on the goals of the project, and how/if they could be a great resource to advance the goals of the project. In those discussions, it became clear that they shared many of the goals of the grant project, and a mutually helpful relationship began. The sustained discussions of collective goals will hopefully further the themes of this project past the term.