Victoria Watlington
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3,394 appearances
31 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 17 Aug
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Thank you for it, Council Member.
I think balancing business friendly with people first is the epitome of who I've had to be over the course of my career.
And so when I think about balancing the opportunity to talk with corporate partners, whether it was
When I started long ago, long before this city started talking about economic mobility and social capital, when I built programs that invested in young girls in this city and invested in youth in our city and brought corporate partners to the table to say, you have to be a part of building our local talent pipeline.
That work existed long before someone told us that we needed to work on economic mobility in the city.
And then it just continued from there.
So the balance of saying, hi, corporate partners, we need you.
We can't do this work to the exclusion of you.
We need you around the table for these difficult issues.
But we also, we're here for our people.
And so our people have to be the ones that are at the table making decisions, driving decisions, putting forward input.
And I'll just give you examples of when I've been able to do that.
One of the recent examples was when I launched Green Light Fund Charlotte and was able to galvanize a number of public, private, nonprofit partners partnered with the city and the county to make investments in workforce and launch in the Center for Employment Opportunity Charlotte at the Goodwill
opportunity campus so that neighbors could have jobs in our community and have financial stability and security.
I also helped to launch Financial Security CLT, which is a coalition of folks working together to make sure families can build a life here.
And when we're
allowing and making sure that those opportunities are possible.
You're working with folks who, we have to say corporate partners, we need you side by side with us in this because many of the corporate partners are employing the residents of this city.
And so when you think about the chance to
invest in things like the Center for Employment Opportunities, invest in youth advocate program and alternatives to violence, which was another thing that we launched and it was in a few of you all's districts and the program has now expanded across the city.
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