COPS/Metro unveiled a new, decade-long strategy for neighborhood infrastructure and workforce development Sunday as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration.

More than 2,000 people gathered at the Henry B. González Convention Center for the announcement of the organization’s initiative, “Public Money for Public Good.”

The strategy focuses on three key areas: • A $5 billion investment in inner-city flood control and neighborhood infrastructure • Expansion of Project Quest, the organization’s workforce training program • Development of support systems for immigrant families

“We celebrate our local work,” said a COPS/Metro representative during the convention, highlighting the organization’s half-century of community advocacy.

Founded in the early 1970s as Communities Organizing for

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