What is Meaningful Community Engagement?
The Community-Driven Policies and Practices project engaged people experiencing poverty in power-building sessions to develop advocacy plans for economic justice. This report offers recommendations for nonprofits to engage people with lived experience of poverty in advocacy.
The document reviews the Community-Driven Policies and Practices (CDPP) project by CLASP, which involved people with lived experience of poverty in co-creating advocacy plans for economic justice in Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Tribal Nations.
It highlights the importance of centering community voices, building trust, addressing power imbalances, and offering tangible benefits like skill-building and compensation, while providing over 50 recommendations for nonprofits to ensure meaningful, equitable community engagement.
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