Good Works Columbus: February 24, 2025
Intro
Hi everyone, happy Monday! Welcome to Good Works Columbus, a newsletter highlighting actions you can take at the local level to help improve our community. There’s a lot of scary stuff happening at the federal level right now, but remember, you have the power to make change, especially at the local level.
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Things you can do in person
Primary Election Candidate Forum
February 27, 2025 7:00pm
New Birth Christian Ministries
3475 Refugee Rd, Columbus, OH 43232
Join us as we hear from candidates running for City Council and School Board in the 2025 Columbus Primary Election.
Pints & Progress: Advocating for Ohio
Thursday, February 27, 6:30PM-8:00PM
We are excited to invite you to our Advocacy 101 training night – Pints & Progress: Advocating for a Clean and Healthy Ohio. During this session, you’ll learn the basics of advocacy, including building relationships with decision-makers, mobilizing others for change, and effective strategies for communicating your cause. Whether you are new to advocacy or looking to sharpen your skills, this training will provide you with the tools and knowledge to effectively advocate for causes you care about.
Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It
Commute Challenge
The first Make Your Miles Matter challenge of 2025 kicks off TODAY! From now until 3/28, log your sustainable commutes on our website for the chance to win a $50 digital gift card, redeemable at the retailer of your choice.
HOW TO ENTER: Commute sustainably to work via carpool, transit, biking, walking, or vanpool, and log your trips at gohiocommute.com/morpc. You will be automatically entered into our raffle drawing to win one of two $50 digital gift cards. More trips logged = more entries into the raffle!SAVE THE DATE
Join hundreds of Keep Columbus Beautiful volunteers on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at 10AM, to stomp out litter along city ramps. We will meet at Wolfe Park Shelter House, 105 Park Dr, Columbus, OH 43209. We are stomping out litter by cleaning up near Columbus’ highway ramps.
Things you can do online
(National) Stop the Trump administration from scrapping funding for pedestrian safety and walkable communities
The administration has frozen over $3 billion allocated to infrastructure projects that support walking and has threatened to eliminate key programs like Safe Streets and Roads for All and Reconnecting Communities entirely.
Tell Congress, and members of your state government, they need to stick up for the investments that make it easier for members of your community to walk with confidence through their neighborhoods.Franklin County Innis Road, Cleveland Avenue to Westerville Road Improvements Project 🚲
Improvements include lane reduction from 4 to 3 lanes and new sidewalks and paint-only bike lanes. Comments are due by February 28th. Suggested improvements would be to include protection for the bike lanes. See this link for more information and comment form.
In Case You Missed It
LinkUS Engagement Survey (2 minutes)
Mark up the Vision Zero Columbus map. Have a close call walking, biking, or getting around town? Do you know a dangerous intersection that can be improved? Help identify these spots on the Vision Zero map.
Other Stuff
Things I’m Reading / Watching
Columbus City Council candidate Tiara Ross' residency called into question by political blog from WOSU
Algorithms are breaking how we think from Technology Connections
A 38 minute video, but well worth it imo.
Have a great day everyone and see you next week!
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