The Social Equity and Opportunity Forum aims to produce timely, accessible analyses that support understanding and action on these issues.
Framing Inequality
The first in our series of action-oriented publications, You CAN Get There from Here is an article by Joe Grady and Axel Auburn of Cultural Logic, LLC. Framing Inequality offers fresh insight for those working on equity and opportunity issues.
Metroscape Article - Equity and Opportunity in the Region
Published in the Winter 2008 edition of Metroscape, The Interpretation of Dreams: Aspirations and Opportunity in the Region, considers the role of equity and opportunity in achieving the American Dream, as well as how the Dream is unfolding here in the region.
Social Bottom Line Briefing Papers
Development That Adds Up: Accounting for the Social Bottom Line of Triple Bottom Line Investment reports on our review of existing
frameworks for measuring the social bottom line and our conversations
with community leaders about the topic. Part of our You CAN Get There from Here series, this accessible briefing paper addresses
both the definition of a good social bottom line, as well as
measurement issues.
Supplement A is our inventory of tools for assessing the social
bottom line.
Supplement B is our draft social bottom line framework.
Supplement C is the bibliography associated with the social
bottom line (coming soon).
Growing Opportunity: An Examination of Existing Farm Link Programs and Their Applicability to Oregon
Written in January, 2008, this report shares lessons learned gleaned from
interviews with staff of thirteen of the fifteen existing US Farm Link
programs.
