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Question 1/7

(c) Brenda Funches

1. The Environment (Select up to two)

	Organize more people to get involved in protecting our environment
	Increase regulations so that businesses and communities are more environmentally responsible
	Promote family/household conservation and recycling
	Monitor and report water quality in streams, rivers and lakes
	Create a professional fellowship for environmental leaders to learn, network and exchange ideas
	Increase research to improve the efficiency of solar collectors and storage technology

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2. K-12 Education (Select up to two)

	Upgrade a school's information systems and computerize student records
	Promote legislation that enriches school programs
	Engage parents to advocate for higher quality schools
	Fight potential de-funding of elective and advanced programs in school
	Analyze which programs have had the most success in improving academic performance and why
	Provide early childhood education and school-readiness programs so that more children enter school with solid academic foundations

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3. Low Wages/Working Poor (Select up to two)

	Protect benefits like worker compensation, unemployment insurance and social security
	Quantify what a living wage is and identify ways to close the gap for various populations.
	Provide skills enhancement and training programs that enable participants to earn a 'living wage'
	Strengthen grassroots organizations working on poverty/low wage issues
	Educate the public about the importance of living wages and rally support for skills training to promote job (and income) advancement
	Increase government support for programs that help the working poor to build assets

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4. Affordable Healthcare (Select up to two)

	Protect the availability of lower cost generic drugs
	Pressure politicians to develop programs for systemic improvements to healthcare access and cost
	Develop a white paper that builds the case that affordable, quality healthcare is a basic right, not a privilege
	Expand the free clinic to give more people access to preventative healthcare services
	Enable a healthcare organization to develop new systems for implementing the Affordable Care Act
	Organize people to speak out for healthcare reform

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Courtesy of The Women's Foundation of California

5. Women's Inequality (Select up to two)

	Help women's organizations to form stronger networks and mentoring systems that increase their power
	Advocate for women to have a constitutional right to equality
	Enforce existing laws against discrimination
	Analyze data from all 50 states to determine what is really at the heart of persistent inequality
	Organize more women who support equality to run for public office
	Provide more school and community education that strengthen skills and empower women and girls

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6. Community Economic Development (Select up to two)

	Create a wave of interest in your community by promoting investment opportunities and increasing local pride
	Support organizations that build partnerships between government, nonprofit, businesses, and community groups to solve problems that affect the whole community
	Monitor local tax and zoning policies for their implications on neighborhoods, employment, housing, and transportation in the community
	Create a vision for developing sustainable communities that are good places to live, do business, go to school and raise families.
	Extend government subsidies, like free land or tax relief, to stimulate economic growth
	Support entrepreneurial initiatives of young people in the community

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7. Civic Participation (Select up to two)

	Help effective civic organizations to grow their membership and improve their technology to better serve their members
	Fight efforts to increase requirements to get voter id cards
	Change policies to extend voting hours and allow online options for voting so that more people can participate
	Calculate a dollar value of the volunteerism in communities in order to shift the perception that volunteering is not high impact
	Participate individually or as a family in service days and volunteer events
	Help increase the rate of voting through voter education, issues analysis, and transportation services

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