Q4 Well-being Focus: Advocacy
NRECA’s well-being theme for the coming fourth quarter is advocacy. Your cooperative’s employees, by contributing their ideas, time and/or effort, can help shape the well-being landscape of your community.
There are a lot of ways to get engaged with your community, from supporting an existing program financially or by volunteering to start a well-being initiative. The following resources offer ideas in which individuals can step up and make a difference. Share these at your co-op:
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- Be A Community Health Champion – Contact your local officials with ideas like adding bike trails and renovating city parks.
- 3 Ways to Improve Your Neighborhood – Form a neighborhood clean-up, start a community garden or join your neighborhood association.
- Make Nutrition Your Mission – One simple idea is suggesting or bringing a healthy snack at work instead of doughnuts or bagels.
Tools:
- ACRE. Co-op employees can join Action Committee for Rural Electrification® (ACRE®), which is the federal political action committee (PAC) that supports political candidates who speak for the interests of electric co-ops and their consumer-owners.
- Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives. With a focus on strengthening relationships with their consumer-owners, Touchstone Energy® cooperatives have access to a variety of community engagement resources and programs.
- Voices for Cooperative Power is a network of co-op members working together to influence decisions of elected officials affecting co-ops and their communities. Co-op members can join this network and get involved!
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC offers community strategies for creating or modifying environments that promote physical activity via biking and walking.
If you have questions about any of NRECA’s resources or programs, email the well-being team at wellbeingprogram@nreca.coop.