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Resource by Nadia Owusu & Alyssa Smaldino on Mar 18, 2020

Closing the Gaps Webinar Series

The reality of COVID-19’s scope and impact is just beginning to sink in and in many ways is still unknown. At Living Cities, we are doing our best to hold the complexities that come with racial equity work, particularly in a time of global pandemic.

Resource on Mar 25, 2020

Interruping Violence Resource

We believe that accountability and healing are inextricably linked, and are both fundamental to our racial equity work. As we worked to integrate healing justice in our racial equity work, we also began internal conversations about how we personally…

Resource on Mar 4, 2020

Achieving Results by Centering Race Internally and Externally

Living Cities has committed to a new vision and mission that focus on closing racial gaps. This Theory of Change outlines how it will achieve its new goals.

Resource on Jan 7, 2020

The Integration Initiative: Final Report

Resource on Dec 17, 2019

Internal Scan: Racial Equity and Inclusion Competency Survey Results 2019

This internal scan offers a deep dive into the results of our 2019 Racial Equity and Inclusion Competency Survey.

Resource on Dec 6, 2019

Radical Collaboration for Black Wealth Creation

Resource on Nov 20, 2019

The Road to Inclusion: How 21st Century Learning Organizations Can Engage Community Onlin…

We created a tool to understand what it takes to use digital technologies to encourage learning and racial equity. This report outlines what we learned from the process.

Our Work

Racial Equity and Inclusion

We are working to ensure that our commitment to accelerating progress on issues of racial equity and inclusion at the systems level is reflected in all of our work. To do this, we have adopted value and culture norms and are working to take action.

Resource on Nov 18, 2019

How-To Guide: Employee Resource Groups

Resource on Sep 19, 2019

Entrepreneurs of Color Resource

We've compiled a list of caterers and restaurants owned or operated by people of color so that you can embed racial equity into your organizational culture through food.

Resource on Jun 21, 2019

Through the Eyes of Wakanda: On Screen Lessons for Off Screen Impact

The seeds of a dynamic black future already exist within the minds of those among us—as long as, together, we are willing to step forward and author it.

Resource on Jun 5, 2019

Resource: Checking In With Our Humanity

This resource compiles check-in questions, poems and activities that we've used to center humanity in our every day work.

Resource on May 13, 2019

Racial Equity Here Learning Report: Lessons from 5 Cities Operationalizing Racial Equity

This learning report highlights lessons learned from the work of five cities operationalizing racial equity, including Albuquerque, Austin, Grand Rapids, Louisville, and Philadelphia.

Resource on Apr 4, 2019

Internal Scan: Racial Equity and Inclusion Competency Survey Results 2018

This internal scan offers a deep dive into the results of our 2018 Racial Equity and Inclusion Competency Survey.

Our Work

Civic Tech and Data Collaborative

We are working with Code for America and the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership to support teams of civic technologists, data practitioners and government officials in cities to develop data and technology solutions to address pressing pro…

Governing

Summit on Government Performance & Innovation

Resource on Mar 5, 2019

Getting Ready for Racial Equity Work: The Racial Equity Here Evaluation

This evaluation of our Racial Equity Here initiative offers recommendations for other cities interested in applying a racial equity lens to their policies and operations.

Resource on Aug 23, 2018

Understanding Privilege

Resource on Aug 20, 2018

Encounters with Color and Identity

Resource on Aug 15, 2018

Quiet

This piece is part of a series of stories that the Living Cities summer 2018 intern cohort is producing surrounding their racial equity journey and summer experience.

Past Work

Brookings and Living Cities State and Metropolitan Prosperity Collaborative

The Brookings Institution and Living Cities State and Metropolitan Prosperity Collaborative was a peer exchange forum intended to promote deeper collaboration between state and metropolitan leaders on issues critical to creating economic opportunity.

Resource on Jul 10, 2018

A Path to Authentic Community Engagement Guiding Questions

Resource on Jul 6, 2018

A tool towards sustainability in cross-sector initiatives: Mayoral Transition

Resource on May 7, 2018

The Mobilization Fund Study: First Year of Capital Access in New Orleans

Resource on Apr 10, 2018

Survey: Assessing Our Staff's Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency

We administered this survey as a baseline measure of our staff's collective competency around embedding a racial equity lens in our work.

Resource on Apr 2, 2018

Facilitator's Guide for Continuous Improvement Conversations with a Racial Equity Lens

How might facilitators effectively use data? How might they ensure a racial equity focus? Often these conversations stall for various reasons including the historical and prevailing culture of both funders and grantees that has focused on compliance…

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