Innovations in Equity

PolicyLink believes that the wisdom, voice, and experience of communities are key to addressing major challenges that face the nation.  Equity Summit 2011  is a premier venue for advocates to share and learn through discussion, skill building trainings, and workshops. While the Summit will feature more than 200 speakers on panels, we know that many more individuals and organizations  are innovating new solutions in their communities and regions. To capture this exciting work, PolicyLink is offering all organizations attending the Summit the opportunity to create an electronic poster that describes their work to be displayed at the Summit.

We are looking for programs, policies, and practices that have engaged and benefited low-income communities and communities of color.  Submissions can include a variety of issues and approaches to building communities of opportunity where all have the access to quality jobs, education and housing, diverse transportation choices, healthy foods, and safe places to be physically active.

Accepted submissions will be displayed throughout the conference hotel on plasma screens on a running loop of posters. PolicyLink will review all submissions.Deadline to submit is October 31, 2011

Submission Guidelines

Format

• The poster should be made of ONE slide.
• Submissions should be in an electronic format, preferably in a Microsoft PowerPoint or Word document that can be edited for errors.
• The poster will have a 16:9 proportion for widescreens, on a landscape orientation.
• Resolution should be at least 2280x1620 pixels.
• The full title of the poster, organization name, and contact information should be included
• Choose a clear typeface. The suggested minimum font size is 20 ft.
• All images (photographs, charts, images, etc.) should be large enough to see relevant detail. Legends in any graphs and embedded images must be legible.
• Images should not be compressed.
• Graphs should be embedded as images.
• There will be no audio for these displays, please do not include animated materials.
• Avoid crowding the poster with too much information; submissions should be primarily visual, so we have limited the word count for each description.

Submissions should include the following images and brief written descriptions:

• Name of Organization and logo (300 dpi)

• Mission and/or Vision (maximum 100 words)
• Name of Policy, Program, Project, or Collaboration.
• Place of impact or geographic area of practice (neighborhood or city or metropolitan region and state)
• Please describe your focus on communities of color or low-income communities; the challenges that your approach addresses; how your program is innovative; and results or accomplishments you have seen. (maximum 800 words)
• Images can include photographs of the community(s) that your organization works with, or charts or graphs depicting results, or maps that were instrumental in change.
• At the bottom, please include organizational contact information: website, staff e-mail address,Twitter handle.

To see a sample poster click image below

Please direct questions to:
Danielle Bergstrom at DBergstrom[at]policylink.org.