Wise Practices
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- Safety
- Blue Phones & SafeWalk Programs on College Campuses
- Bluelight security system technology and late-night walking programs, such as SafeWalk, are preventative measures to ensure students, specifically women and gender queer individuals, feel safe on campus (especially after dark).
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- Safety
- Bystander Intervention Training on College Campuses
- University campuses around the world often implement these programs towards the beginning of the school year in an effort to educate students, particularly incoming students, about the importance of speaking up and stepping in when witnessing others in potentially vulnerable and exploitative situations.
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- Economic Security
- City Partnership with Crowdfunding Ecosystem
- City of Boston partners with a crowdsourcing platform to help local women entrepreneurs.
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- Safety
- College Campus Reporting Options for Sexual Violence
- Callisto is a technology-based non-profit organization specifically designed by survivors of sexual assault to support survivors. It is designed to report their experience and seek outside help from their university, in case they do not feel safe reporting their assault to campus authorities. They partner with college campus support groups and individual students to help victims of sexual assault report…
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- Childcare & Elder Care
- Council Kids Child Minding for Council Meetings
- The City of North Vancouver provides free child-minding for parents attending Council meetings.
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- Safety
- Crowd Source Safety Audit
- Online crowd sourcing safety audit in public spaces to identify areas of concern.
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- Diversity & Inclusion, Education
- Engendering Success in STEM
- An evidence-based approach to break down the biases girls and women face on their pathways to STEM.
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- Diversity & Inclusion
- Gender & Inclusion Strategies
- Develop a civic strategy for gender and diversity inclusion and equity.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Guide for Municipal Action on Women’s Equity
- An overview of key issues facing women and concrete opportunities for Municipal Government to take action and move forward on women’s equity.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Hot Pink Paper Campaign
- Obtain commitments on women's issues from civic candidates prior to elections.
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- Economic Security
- iFundWomen
- City of Boston partners with crowdsourcing platform to help local women entrepreneurs.
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- Diversity & Inclusion
- Inclusion Working Group
- Creating a Trans* and Gender Variant Inclusion Working Group for municipal government.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Increase Women’s Participation in Municipal Decision Making
- This resource kit explores numerous strategies to increase womens participation in municipal processes and decision-making.
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- Childcare & Elder Care
- Increasing Childcare Spaces at the City of Vancouver
- The City of Vancouver uses municipal government levers to stimulate the development of new childcare spaces.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Municipal Elections in Canada: a guide for women candidates
- This guide provides tips and tools for campaigning and beyond within the municipal office.
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- Diversity & Inclusion, Infrastructure & Services, Transportation, Urban Spaces
- Public Bench Network: Elders Participatory Study
- A participatory study for improving the bench network in the Eixample District in Barcelona