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Urban, civil rights, and environmental groups are moving to form new coalitions to improve inner-city conditions. The coalition concept was the theme of an April 1979 conference convened in Detroit by the National Urban League, the Sierra Club and the Urban Environment Conference and Foundation.
The April conference, called City Care, drew over 700 participants from all parts of the United States. At Detroit there were repeated calls for multi-interest efforts at local, regional and national levels to improve inner-city conditions and create new jobs in the process.
Delegates from the City Care conference met here June 6-7 to move forward plans for carrying out the mandates of the Detroit meeting. The follow-up meeting took place at Wingspread, the educational conference center of The Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wisconsin.
At Wingspread, the original City Care conference steering committee, and delegates named by City Care working groups agreed to pursue a "coordinated program of regional conferences, common advocacy and joint action projects" concerned with urban social welfare, environmental quality and health. The group defined itself as the "City Care Action Committee" and asked the Urban Environment Conference and Foundation staff in Washington, D.C., to coordinate the following plan of action:
-- Convening of some ten smaller City Care conferences gathering...