Community Involvement
We bring people together to discuss issues and find solutions, facilitating effective, inclusive discussions around complex issues affecting our social, environmental and economic well-being. Then we turn these community voices into action.
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Community convenings
We host public meetings, lecture series, town halls, panels, dinners and other civic engagement events to heighten dialogue around critical regional issues.
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Strategic visioning
Forterra and partners facilitate discussions and develop practical plans for economic development in struggling communities. With the City of Aberdeen we engaged with a broad range of community members to create a vision for their downtown corridor.
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Healthy communities
Forterra and partners facilitate lead projects that support healthy communities, including discussions on active transportation and access to local food as well as leading walking and biking audits. Forterra and partners build projects for healthy communities including a community gathering space in Neah Bay and Federal Way’s first neighborhood greenway.
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Community Liasons
We work with cities and local organizations to develop bridge-building programs that connect underrepresented communities to government decision-making. In Tukwila, we worked with local partners to develop the Community Connectors Program.
Forterra has a unique ability to bring the various stakeholders around the table to solve problems in communities. And we've been very, very fortunate and blessed to have their assistance and their support.
Related Perspectives and News
TGIF Northwest-style
A Friday afternoon beach party at Little Skookum Inlet and conversation centered around the changes and challenges of our rural towns and communities.
Ampersand Live 2015: The KUOW podcast
The KUOW podcast that let’s you relive Forterra’s Ampersand Live 2015 stage show.
A conversation about growing food in a growing region
A family farmer, an agrihood manager and an edible yard landscaper talk food, preserving land and how raising chickens can build community at Forterra’s Seed & Feed speaker event.
2016 Ampersand Live: Sketcher Gabriel Campanario
Gabriel Campanario uses his sketchpad to immortalize historic buildings the city has lost to development, to capture moments in time and to learn from the experiences of those he meets along the way. From angry turkeys and goats to kayaks, urban sketching turns even the mundane into an adventure.
A Tool for Bigger Thinking
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Council Recognizes “Gene Duvernoy Day”
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Ampersand Live: Stories for the Northwest proud
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TDR updates drive Snohomish sustainability goals
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