Civic Thread

Civic Thread is committed to health equity in the built environment by elevating institutionally underserved voices and priorities to co-create communities, neighborhoods, and places where everyone can thrive. Civic Thread is a nonprofit planning and advocacy organization that improves the quality of life and health equity in the Capital Region through community-centered policy and systems change in land use, transportation, and community development. Civic Thread has partnered with local, regional, and state agencies to advance health equity through programs involving Safe Routes to School, community-based planning, strategic marketing and outreach, and active transportation funding and program technical assistance. Civic Thread will lean on 20 years of experience empowering disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to enact creative, robust, and successful community-led solutions.