Driven to Change: A Virtual Summit on Transportation, Housing, and the Climate Crisis in Our Region February 17th & 18th Sponsored by Sustainability Partners Sponsor This Event WakeUP Wake County is excited to present Driven to Change. A two-day virtual summit bringing together advocates, globally renowned scientists and planners, policymakers, …
Dear Friends, For the past two years, I’ve had the privilege to serve as the Chair of the Board of Directors for WakeUP Wake County. As Wake County’s leading advocacy organization for sustainable growth, WakeUP excels at creating connections between people and places and fostering safe, vibrant communities for all. …
2020 has been a year of discovering new experiences and talents and realizing things that we had forgotten were so important to us. From struggling with quarantine, baking bread, and virtual school to greenways, kindness, and our neighbors. We’ve had to depend on each other, at a distance, to make …
Think Our Housing Crisis is Bad Now? Just Wait Until the Great Climate Migration. WakeUp Wake County believes everyone deserves to live in a home they can afford and in a neighborhood in which they can flourish. Unfortunately, however, this vision is out of reach for too many in our …
Take a Walk with WakeUP this October, and Enter a Chance to Win Over the past year, COVID-19 has dramatically reshaped life in the United States and around the world. Nowhere is this clearer than in our own homes, which have been transformed into remote offices and virtual schools. This …
WakeUP Urges Raleigh Voters to Vote “Yes” on the Affordable Housing Bond this Fall Raleigh is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis that is significantly impacting renters, communities of color, and those with extremely low incomes. While fully addressing this problem will require continued long-term investment and planning, the …
Learn more about the Affordable Housing Bond Referendum on the ballot in Raleigh this election. While it has been a tough year for all of us, things have been especially hard for our friends and neighbors who were already being impacted by Wake County’s persistent housing affordability crisis. Please join …
Are you hearing a lot about Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and not sure if it really works and if it can work in Wake County? Join WakeUP Wake County and CAFT at Noon on October 9th, to discuss Transit Oriented Development (TOD): What is it & How Does it Work? …
