Mission Action Movie

[Neomi Bensch]

TheMission District has a long history of cultural diversity. Historically, it has been a working class neighborhood largely comprised of low to moderate income households. Located in east-central San Francisco, the Mission District has had the City's highest concentration of Latinos and immigrants from Latin America for decades. Rich with nonprofit service providers, cultural institutions, small legacy businesses, and working-class jobs in the Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) sector, an unintended consequence of a rebounding economy following the Great Recession has been the devastating acceleration of displacement affecting many long-time residents and businesses.

Myriad factors are accelerating the rate of displacement within the neighborhood and it will take a variety of approaches and tools from both within City agencies and amongst community organizations to decelerate the displacement trend.

Myriad factors are accelerating the rate of displacement within the neighborhood and it will take a variety of approaches and tools from both within City agencies and amongst community organizations to decelerate the displacement trend.

Your participation is important to this process. Please share your comments and questions anytime by reaching to the contacts listed to ensure that we are creating an effective and complete roadmap to help stem displacement and protect the cultural and economic diversity of the Mission.

From the beginning of this process, MAP 2020 participants have met regularly and conducted focus groups and presentations to propose and discuss the extensive list of possible solutions and strategies that appear in the draft report.

The City and County of San Francisco is gathering input from the community on the potential expansion of the Latino Cultural District within the Mission. Join us to learn about the Cultural District program and provide your thoughts about the potential expansion. When: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 from 6 - 8 p.m.

Where: Women's Building, Auditorium, 3543 18th Street

Download the flyer for the event here. Children activities and light refreshments will be provided. Spanish and Mandarin Interpretation will be available.

For more information contact: Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Diana Ponce De Len at diana.po...@sfgov.org or (415) 554-6138.

MAP 2020 Phase One focuses on the development of the Plan and launching the first round of programmatic services to help the most vulnerable households and businesses. Phase Two, already underway, will continue to focus on addressing the role of the current market-rate housing pipeline, planning for long-term affordable housing solutions, analyzing how transit and other City projects support the goals of MAP2020, and developing the legislation and any new programs contained in the Report.

Once the Plan is endorsed by the Planning Commission, we will continue working toward meeting the objectives and strategies detailed in the Report. An implementation working group will produce an annual report, monitor progress, and meet quarterly with MAP2020 participants and key stakeholders to provide status updates and recommend any necessary adjustments.

The OECD Mission Action Lab is a joint initiative of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) of the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, and the OECD Development Co-Operation Directorate. Bringing diverse sets of international expertise and focus areas, we work with policymakers to establish and operationalise missions in real world contexts.

By working in close collaboration with policy teams to provide tailored, strategic and tactical advice, the Lab helps countries overcome challenges that prevent them from getting started or meaningfully staying on course with their missions. In turn, the Lab seeks to leverage this project work to build the broader evidence base and develop guidance on how governments can best implement mission-oriented approaches to public policy.

The OECD Mission Action Lab works directly with policymakers and practitioners at any stage of their mission. We are especially interested in projects that fall into its three core research areas: the governance of missions, mission portfolio management, and the monitoring and evaluation of missions. Under these areas, the Lab investigates specific research questions through action research projects with partner countries and institutions.

We work with policymakers and teams across the world, in both OECD member and non-member countries, who are working with or intend to adopt mission-oriented approaches. This includes partners from national and local governments, development cooperation providers and non-governmental organisations involved in mission implementation.

Collaborators may be at different stages in relation to their experience with mission-oriented policy: some may need assistance assessing its suitability for their identified challenge, whereas others may already be well underway and are seeking support with aspects of its governance, implementation, or scale. The Lab works with policymakers at all stages with a focus on those actively implementing missions.

Missions are measurable, ambitious, and time-bound objectives that have the potential to help enable transformative change. They are declarations of intent to tackle complex societal challenges, such as climate change and health inequities, by taking a purpose-oriented, solution-driven, and market-shaping approach. The mission of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 is an example of a mission-oriented approach to addressing climate change.

With mission-oriented innovation, the public sector takes an active role in convening and coordinating actors around complex, cross-sectoral issues that cannot be solved with existing methods or by individual actors alone. Mission-oriented innovation refers to any new or improved technological, social, or organisational solution (product, process, or service) that aims to respond to one or several objectives tackling grand societal challenges (missions) and create public value to society (e.g., climate mitigation, clean oceans, sustainable economic growth, and well-being).

Supporting the development and diffusion of such innovations often requires specific policy interventions. Mission-oriented innovation policy is a coordinated package of policy and regulatory measures specifically tailored to mobilise innovation to address well-defined societal objectives in a defined timeframe. These measures can span across different stages of the innovation cycle, from research to demonstration and market deployment, mix supply-push and demand-pull instruments and cut across various policy fields, sectors, and disciplines.

While there are various examples of mission being undertaken (e.g. the mission areas launched at the European Commission level), there is no established practice on what drives mission to success. Objectives, governance, and funding mechanisms related to mission vary depending on the context. As a result, many teams and public sector organisations are struggling to make missions work in practice. They are looking for guidance on the practical implementation of a mission-oriented approach, especially concerning the long-term governance of missions, evaluation of missions, stakeholder coordination, and portfolio management.

OPSI is working to support national and local actors in building an actionable mission-oriented innovation approach as part of a portfolio of innovation activity and support. Learn about how mission-oriented innovation relates to other innovation approaches on our Innovation Portfolios page.

Solomon highlighted the ways in which OJP is bringing its mission to life, through its grantmaking portfolio, research strategies and technical assistance, and within its own organization. She noted that OJP is delivering much-needed federal funding to community-based services through initiatives dedicated to interrupting community violence, improving responses to individuals in crisis, meeting the needs of underserved victims of crime, supporting young people impacted by violence and the juvenile justice system, reimagining responses to low-level crime and more.

The Square One Project event was moderated by Executive Director Katharine Huffman and also featured a panel discussion with Pastor Michael McBride of LIVE FREE USA, Jocelyn Fontaine of the Black and Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence, Jawanna Hardy of Guns Down Friday and Chief Ernie Cato, a longtime veteran of the Chicago Police Department who is now with the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The CBOs who participated in the roundtable represented a wide range of community-based work, including efforts to respond to and end domestic, sexual and community violence; divert youth from the juvenile justice system; and support reentry outcomes.

Assistant Attorney General Solomon wrote a recent blog post about the tangible ways that OJP is working to advance the new mission statement and support communities as co-producers of justice. For example, the Bureau of Justice Assistance is seeking a training and technical assistance provider to support justice-focused CBOs that will primarily work with historically marginalized and underserved communities, including rural communities. The provider will help remove barriers to applying for OJP funding, while also enhancing the quality of services provided to communities disproportionality impacted by crime, delinquency, victimization and violence.

In addition, OJP is working to make solicitations more streamlined and clearer for potential applicants. The Office for Victims of Crime, for instance, is seeking to fund organizations that provide for the basic needs of crime victims, such as transportation, temporary and transitional housing, clothing, food and other items necessary for their well-being, healing or safety. This funding opportunity presents the information in simple, clear language, with an option to submit a project plan instead of a written project narrative and abstract. The project plan can be submitted through written answers to a questionnaire, a video describing the plan or a live oral presentation to OVC via video meeting.

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