Thank you for taking a moment to review the community guidelines. The guidelines are here to: 1) help you become a valuable contributor to the community, 2) explain what kind of conduct to avoid, and 3) make sure the community is enjoyable for - and respectful of - all our users. Please interact with other users accordingly and conduct yourself as you would in any professional setting. We expect everyone to abide by the User Agreement and follow these guidelines.
The goal of the Hope Street Group community is to empower our members to build and grow successful communities and collaborative solutions around policy for economic opportunity. We hope you enjoy visiting the community, return often, and become an active member and frequent contributor.
Keep it clean, keep it professional. Every post should make a positive contribution to the community and should be suitable for all users. The community is open to all points of view on the intended business-related topics; mature, polite debate is encouraged. But we will remove any post or reply that includes derogatory, abusive, offensive, obscene, violent or inappropriate content of any kind. Always interact with other users respectfully, as you would in any professional setting.
Stay on topic. Good contributions help the entire community by providing relevant, insightful information or asking important questions. If your post contains anything unrelated to the topic of the forum or article, it may be removed.
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Keep marketing efforts separate; minimize clutter.A post or reply with a personal agenda only benefits the person who writes it, not the community as a whole, and unsolicited advertising adds distracting clutter to the forums. Please respect the community's mission by not using it as a marketing channel or submitting any content you've been paid or otherwise rewarded by a third party to write.
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Hope Street Group's ways of working (how we go about keeping our promise):
- Bipartisan. We build and sustain a “coalition of the reasonable” who find common ground and combine their best thinking and practices to the creation and implementation of policy that can build economic opportunity and strengthen our nation’s prosperity.
- Holistic. We view all policy from withint the framework of how if affects the opportunity economy. We seek to understand its implications across the private, public, and civil sectors and in the lives of all Americans and to create and implement policy that genuinely benefits us all, rather than merely moving the problem somewhere else.
- Collaborative. We work across the political spectrum and sectors to create and implement policies that no single faction could conceive of or execute. We invite new voices into the fold, connecting practitioners on the ground with leaders and policymakers
- Pragmatic. We focus on grand bargains and small practical solutions to the most complex policy issues confronting economic opportunity. We are not political or precious about where the best ideas and practices come from. We embrace what works and reject what divides us.
- Flexible. We are not dogmatic our prescriptive in our policymaking or implementation. We encourage and try to make it possibole for policymakers and all engaged Americans to contribute, adapt, and adopt elements or entire pieces of the policies and practices that we invent and promote.
- Fact-based. We base our policy recommendations and best practices on facts, proven strategies and practices, and positions that can be proven and defended.
- Measured. We are dedicated to meaningful impact, so we define goals; create workstreams, assignments, and timelines; and define outcomes that can be—and are—measured by how well we deliver to our stakeholders (individuals who have had restricted access to economic opportunity and the nation’s prosperity).
- Communicative. We share our goals, plans, information, knowledge, ideas, progress, networks, and relationships through open, frequent, and direct communications. As a highly distributed, virtual organization, our ability to effectively communicate is especially important to our success.
- Evangelical. We know our success depends on the breadth, depth, and diversity of our networks and coalitions. We continually seek to spread the word of Hope Street Group’s good works and enable others to evangelize for the opportunity economy.
