15 Jul
2021
15 Jul
'21
6:57 a.m.
FYI - See https://camsys.com/equitygrants
DEADLINE EXTENDED 1 week to July 22, 5:30pm Eastern Time
Optional Drop-in Information Sessions:
July 16, 9-10 PT / 11-12 CT / 12-1 ET, Click here to join the
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July 16, 1-2 PT / 3-4 CT / 4-5 ET, Click here to join the
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Purpose
Cambridge Systematics is driven to improve society through our objective leadership in
transportation. One way we achieve this is by grounding our work in the distinct
principles and purpose that drive us to meet the challenges of advancing an equitable
future through transportation. We have an unwavering commitment to Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion within our company and in our communities. We acknowledge past wrongs in
transportation planning and implementation and recognize that we need to lead the industry
in creating a more equitable and inclusive transportation system for all the people it
serves.
That’s why we are going beyond our paid client work to offer in-kind grants so we can
partner with select nonprofit and grassroots community-based organizations to advance
their equity goals by providing Equity-In-Action through access to our proprietary data
and to our experts.
Below is information regarding the grant purpose and qualifications for 2021 and a link to
the grant application.
We will support projects for:
· Studying travel made by residents of communities with historically disadvantaged
populations for the purpose of helping better understand trip making in and around their
communities and working collaboratively to compare trip patterns to existing mobility
options;
· Studying access to job centers, education (colleges, universities and job
training), health care, and/or other social determinants of health and of healthy
communities including fresh food and social networks;
· Conducting research that addresses inequities in our transportation systems;
· Strengthening grant applications to advance equitable transportation access
to—and/or equitable impact of transportation investments in—health care, health outcomes,
education, jobs, job training, fresh food, and other key determinants of health and
economic security, by showcasing travel and traffic conditions; and/or
· Advancing equitable recovery from COVID-19.
All grants will include data set(s), and may also include limited consultation to help
interpret and apply the data.
Types of data provided may include—but are not necessarily limited to—either or both of
the following:
· Trip flows (from our LOCUS location based services dataset)--show travel patterns
using anonymized cell phone data, by time of day, day of week, trip distance, travel
purpose View a sample trip
flow<https://camsys.com/sites/default/files/Camsys_Equity_Grant_Flow_Exa…
· Census equity-focused demographic information, via access to a tool developed by
CS
Types of consulting provided may include—but are not necessarily limited to—any or all of
the following:
· Transportation/infrastructure grant application expertise
· Transit planning and operations expertise
· Stakeholder outreach/engagement expertise
· Data visualization
· Data analysis (of data supplied by CS or data from the grantee)
· Knowledge transfer to build skills in independent data analysis