America Walks and the Every Body Walk! Collaborative have created a Social Justice Toolkit.  The toolkit seeks to provide organizations and individuals working within the walking movement resources and guides to help them achieve objectives related to fostering equity, fairness, and justice within communities. The toolkit starts from the premise that when working to promote walking and walkability and create built environments and policies that promote walking, there are many opportunities to engage, empower, and inform community members and organizations on larger issues.  To help communities achieve this, the toolkit aims to achieve the following objectives:

  • Provide advocates and organizations with communication tools and other resources to help incorporate messages of equitable communities in their work;
  • Foster conversation within the walking movement on issues related to social justice and equitable communities; and
  • Demonstrate how resources, activities, and work to create and promote walkable communities can be used to foster equity.