Meet Civility Localized
Established 2018
Civility Localized is a minority and woman-owned Community Engagement Consulting Firm with headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Our consultants specialize in multiple disciplines, including Community Outreach Planning, Community Development, Equitable Transportation, and Local Government Policy.
Civility Localized works with governments to enhance Community Engagement capacity. Our firm specializes in increasing public awareness of, and participation in special government projects.
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to help communities grow with dignity through community engagement strategies for local and state government initiatives. We focus on inclusivity and being responsive to changing needs in urban environments.
Vision Statement
We are a nationally recognized community engagement firm for both urban and rural communities looking to foster a sense of belonging through innovative, first-of-their-kind, engagements, changing the landscape of how all governments do community engagement. We treat our employees, partners and clients with the care and respect they deserve.
Public engagement tools for Governments and Community Leaders
Certified Minority-Owned and Woman-Owned Business
Christine Edwards, MPA
Christine Edwards, is the founder of Civility Localized. She is a former local government professional turned civic innovator passionate about community, outreach, economic development, affordable housing, and bridging the digital divide.
As the former Community Relations Coordinator for Mecklenburg County, she coordinated events that offered direct interaction with local communities. Her decade in government led her to the path of entrepreneurship with a focus on civic innovation.
Edwards earned her Masters in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her concentration: Urban Management and Policy. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, and a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
In both academic and professional realms, her focus has been to foster civically engaged communities through collaboration, partnership, and digital communication. Edwards has experience leading teams through full-scale community engagement plans from inception and planning, to facilitation and data analysis.
Christine’s deep relationships allow her to establish working capital with underserved communities often represented by those who identify as African American, Hispanic, Asian, Indigenous, immigrant, non-English speaking, single-parent households, older adults, those who are differently-abled, and people experiencing homelessness.
For its commitment to excellence, her company, Civility Localized, was awarded the 2020 Crowns of Enterprise Minority Business Enterprise of the Year by Mecklenburg County Government and the City of Charlotte.
Civility Localized specializes in Community Engagement planning and Place-based Outreach Initiatives.
This includes priority-setting and planning, stakeholder development, public forum facilitation, public surveys, data sharing, analysis, and more.
We espouse core values that include prioritizing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
Our Services
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There is an art to community engagement. If you want to truly go above and beyond “checking the box”, you will need a full scale community engagement plan which could include Stakeholder Development, Community Mapping, Targeted Research, Polls/Surveys, Focus Groups
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Survey research, demographic research, place-based community mapping, opinion polling and more.
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Define the area of engagement, Gather Stakeholder data, Audit existing resources, Study stakeholder and resource data, define engagement goals.
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Market research, community mapping, stakeholder identification, stakeholder engagement and more.
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We specialize in statistically significant Survey development including research, writing, implementation, reporting & analysis.
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Focus groups, workshops, public events, public meetings, listening sessions, interviews and more. We are experts in facilitating public events
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We use Social Media, Email, custom websites, and more to facilitate the Digital Distribution of surveys, public project awareness, education materials, etc.. We conduct both in-person and Virtual Facilitation of focus groups, listening sessions, report of findings, and more.
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Equitable Transportation Planning, Public Safety, Community Growth Planning, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Health and Human Services, Participatory Budgeting, Budget Transparency, K-12 Education, Arts and Culture, and more.
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Mentoring, speaking and more.
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We are experts in guiding others through the small business certification process.
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Entrepreneurship support and ecosystem building.
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Public Sector Payday curriculum, Equity in Contracting and more.
