What Are The Expectations Of The Mobility Action Teams?

• Understand and apply the Upward Mobility Framework to address local upward mobility and racial equity challenges. Mobility action teams are encouraged to use the Planning Guide for Local Action and the Mobility Metrics to develop strategies that can be built into local programs, policies, and investments.

•  Surface existing local efforts targeting upward mobility and racial equity and strengthen their work. Mobility action teams will elevate a key local challenge or priority and begin advancing strategies and solutions that tackle those identified challenges.

•  Collaborate with other mobility action teams to advance upward mobility and racial equity. All mobility action teams include at least one government and one nongovernment partners to ensure that there is multisector stakeholder engagement and local buy-in. Each team has a lead organization with a project coordinator who is the primary point of contact with Urban and is responsible for scaling training and resources for their team members and organizations to support their local goals.

•  Engage with Urban throughout the technical assistance period. Mobility action teams are expected to sustain involvement and actively participate in trainings, workshops, and calls for the 12-month implementation period as well as attend the in-person exchange event.

• Act as ambassadors and share lessons learned locally. The mobility action teams will be given the necessary support and tools to tackle systemic challenges in their communities beyond the technical assistance period.