Canadian-Community-Initiatives-Addressing-Transport-Poverty_Catalogue_August2024.xlsx

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1	Catalogue of Canadian Community Initiatives Addressing Transport Poverty, for Mobilizing Justice Partnership, V4
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3	Goal of project	To work towards advancing transport equity by identifying community organizations and initiatives addressing transport poverty
4	Date	Summer 2024
5	Update by	Christine Yanagawa
6	Suggested Citation	Ismail, S., Martin, K., Yanagawa, C., Smith Lea, N., Winters, M, Hosford, K., & Simor, D. (2024). Catalogue of Canadian Community Initiatives Addressing Transport Poverty, for Mobilizing Justice Partnership. Toronto: The Centre for Active Transportation, Clean Air Partnership.
7	Acknowledgements:	This work is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ’s partnership grant: Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy. Learn more at www.mobilizingjustice.ca
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9	Purpose of the Data Dictionary	The Data Dictionary lists terms and categories from three transport poverty initiatives scans conducted in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The Dictionary serves as a guide for ensuring that the community initiatives scan is easy to interpret and utilize for future research purposes for the Mobilizing Justice project.
10	Variable	Description
11	Community Initiative Name	Community initiatives for the purposes of this catalogue include grassroots coalitions or programs of larger non-profit organizations, with a partial or central focus on transportation issues that benefit those experiencing transport poverty.
12	Host Organization	The larger umbrella organization that hosts and supports the community initiative (if any). If the initiative has no larger umbrella organization, the name of the community initiative is repeated here.
13	Type of Organization	Host organizations are grouped into 4 categories: Registered charity, Non-profit, Grassroots, and Other. Registered charities* are organizations that must use their resources for charitable activities and have purposes that benefit the community; Non-profits* are incorporated organizations like associations, clubs, or societies, that are not charities and are organized and operated exclusively for social welfare, civic improvement, pleasure, recreation, or any other purpose except profit; Grassroots organizations are created from the bottom up and primarily made up of volunteers campaigning or advocating a cause to spur change; "Other" includes co-ops, student-run community bike shops and workshops, and social enterprises* (revenue-generating organizations whose objective is to have a social impact). *Government of Canada definitions were used for these categories.
14	Address	Street address (if known) of base location of operation for the community initiative.
15	City	City or town of base location of operation for the community initiative.
16	Province	Province of base location of operation for the community initiative.
17	Region	Across 6 categories: Atlantic (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland); British Columbia; North (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut; Ontario; Prairies (Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba); Québec and National.
18	Collaborating partners	Initiatives that collaborate with partners from other organizations to make their work possible, as mentioned on respective websites.
19	Explicitly focus on transport poverty	Based on their website or social media, if the initiative provides services, supports campaigns, or develops programs that make mode-specific transportation more accessible to individuals experiencing transport poverty. Transport poverty occurs when inequitable transportation impedes one’s ability to access employment, services, educational opportunities, food, open space, and other destinations.
20	Equity-deserving focus	Based on their website or social media, if the initiative has a focus on one or more equity-deserving groups. Across 11 categories: Children and Youth, Housing Insecure (includes Unsheltered), Incarcerated (Friends and Families of), Indigenous, Low income, Newcomers (includes Foreign Workers), People with Disabilities (Visible and Invisible), Racialized, Seniors, Women and Girls, 2SLGBTQ+
21	Equity-deserving led	Based on their website or social media, if the organization explicitly states it is led by people from equity-deserving groups.
22	Built Environment (urban, suburban, exurban, rural)	The type of built environment that the initiative is located in: Urban, Suburban, Exurban (almost rural but still part of the commutershed of a larger city), or Rural. If an initiative functions in multiple environments this is indicated: Urban/Rural, Urban/Suburban, Urban/Suburban/Exurban, or All.
23	Low-income definition	For initiatives that explicitly state they are focused on serving low-income people, the organization's definition is provided, otherwise entered as "Not defined".
24	Intersectionality focus	For initiatives that focus on more than one equity-deserving group, if the organization explicitly uses 'intersectionality' or similar terms, entered as "Y", otherwise "N".
25	Mode focus	The transportation mode focus of the organizations/initiatives, grouped into 6 categories: Active transportation, Walking, Cycling, Public transit, Sustainable transportation and Driving. Active transportation is any form of self-propelled, non-motorized transportation, primarily walking and cycling. Walking includes travel by foot as well as while using assistive mobility devices. Driving includes community-based driving programs such as car/rideshare, shuttle services and community transit services. The category “sustainable transportation” was used when the mode focus of the initiative encompassed both active transportation and public transit.
26	Programming & Projects	Complementary programs and projects the host organization leads.
27	Web page (if available)	The most relevant webpage for understanding the community initiative.
28	Highlighted/flagged	These initiatives may be of particular interest (e.g. unique approach to addressing transport poverty that could be shared or modelled.)
29	Description	A summary (approx 100 words) that provides a brief overview of the highlighted initiative (and host organization if any), who is leading it, the date it was launched, its vision/mission, and what it does.
30	Initiative added by	Initials of researcher who added the initiative.
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