A trio of nonprofits has created a new digital online tool enabling companies to measure racial equity and environmental factors when deciding where to locate offices, factories or other facilities.
Steven Litt, cleveland.com
Advocates likened the tool to the popular Walk Score and Bike Score websites, which provide comparative measurements of bike- and pedestrian-friendliness on an address-by-address basis across the U.S. The new digital tool can be used to measure the skill sets and racial diversity of the workforce within a 30-minute commute by car, transit, bike or walk.
A summary map from the 2014 Vibrant NEO Vision of the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium advocated for preservation of agricultural land, limits to sprawl, reinvestment in urban areas, and better regional transit connections.A 2018 report completed by the Fund, entitled “Two Tomorrows,’’ detailed how Northeast Ohio could combat systemic racial exclusion in employment through new strategies in job creation, preparation and access.
The report provided a hypothetical comparison of five different sites ranging from urban to suburban, showing how they’d score in comparison.
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