Forth's mission is to electrify transportation, focusing on reducing pollution and increasing access, particularly for underserved communities. The organization emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion, advocating for 'targeted universalism' to meet universal goals through tailored strategies. Federal policies aim to ensure that 40% of benefits from specific investments reach marginalized communities to address pollution and support sustainable development.

1. Centering Equity
1

2. Forth's mission is to
electrify transportation
by bringing people
together to create
solutions that reduce
pollution and barriers
to access.
2

3. OUR VISION
3

4. Forth envisions a world
where clean and
equitable transportation
systems move everyone
and everything.
4
5

5. Forth is committed to building diversity, equity,
and inclusion into all aspects of our work.
To succeed in advancing smart transportation,
we must also succeed in advancing equity.
Bringing new transportation technologies to
traditionally underserved communities is
critical to the success of the overall industry
and will also maximize the economic and
environmental benefits of these technologies.
ADVANCING EQUITY
13

6. TARGETED UNIVERSALISM
Targeted universalism is an approach that supports the needs
of the particular, while reminding us that we are all part of the
same social fabric.
Targeted universalism means setting universal goals pursued
by targeted processes to achieve those goals. Within a
targeted universalism framework, universal goals are
established for all groups concerned. The strategies developed
to achieve those goals are targeted, based upon how different
groups are situated within structures, culture, and across
geographies to obtain the universal goal. Targeted
universalism is goal oriented, and the processes are directed
in service of the explicit, universal goal. 14

7. JUSTICE 40
The Federal Government has made it a goal that 40
percent of the overall benefits of certain Federal
investments flow to disadvantaged communities that
are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened
by pollution.
The categories of investment are: climate change,
clean energy and energy efficiency, clean transit,
affordable and sustainable housing, training and
workforce development, remediation and reduction
of legacy pollution, and the development of critical
clean water and wastewater infrastructure.
18

8. THANK YOU
23