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 meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MGJmNGI2N… July 16, 1-2 PT / 3-4 CT / 4-5 ET, Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjU2MTk2N… 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