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Just over a year ago, Boone County joined an upward mobility cohort through the Urban Institute. Leaders are now ready to implement the action plan.

Fremont, a city in California’s Bay Area, is undertaking an upgrade of traffic signals along a busy street there to give priority to emergency vehicles and make travel safer for all users.

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At a recent meeting the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a request from the Office of the County Executive, One Fairfax to apply and accept grant funding to participate in a program called the Upward Mobility Cohort.  The Upward Mobility Cohort is a program courtesy of The Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. based think tank that carries out social and economic policy research. Fairfax hopes to be one of eight counties selected for this program which seeks to develop a set of evidence-based metrics for the development of the Mobility Action Plan. The Mobility Action Plan will in...

An internship program that seeks out diverse applicants and places them in paid positions at clean-energy companies will be able to continue through 2021 because of a $50,000 grant from A Community Thrives.  Solar Austin, which works toward bringing affordable renewable energy to more Austinites and promoting careers in clean energy, won the grant through A Community Thrives for its internship program. The first iteration of the program began over the summer and was developed by Solar Austin and Huston-Tillotson University. A Community Thrives is a program that invests in organizations and c...