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Resource by Hafizah Omar 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.

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.

Resource on Jul 10, 2018

A Path to Authentic Community Engagement Guiding Questions

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 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…

Resource on Mar 20, 2018

Report: What Does it Take to Embed a Racial Equity & Inclusion Lens?

This report seeks to inform the next phase of Living Cities’ racial equity and inclusion work, and we hope it is useful to other organizations wrestling with how to better operationalize racial equity and inclusion in their own work.

Resource on Mar 15, 2018

Operationalizing Racial Equity & Inclusion at Living Cities: Frequently Asked Questions

What does it mean to operationalize racial equity in organizations? How does that change our day-to-day work? Why is it important to do internal racial equity work?

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 Jan 31, 2018

Tackling Racial Equity in 2018: the Urgent Now

Our Principal of Public Sector & Partnerships, Steven Bosacker, recently contributed to the International City/Council Management Association’s 18 in 2018, a publication assembling the predictions, views and tips of major public sector players for 2…

Resource on Nov 29, 2017

Resilience, Equity, and Innovation: The City Accelerator Guide to Urban Infrastructure Fi…

Our latest City Accelerator guide, “Resilience, Equity, and Innovation,” we share the tools and processes four cities, Pittsburgh, Saint Paul, San Francisco and Washington D.C., explored in an effort to increase equity and fund infrastructure.

Resource on Nov 22, 2017

#Goodreads: Resources on Racial Equity

What we're reading, listening to, and watching to advance our understanding of racial equity and inclusion.

Resource on Nov 14, 2017

Equipt to Innovation Table of Elements Provides the Key to City Innovation

The 7 elements of city innovation

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 Oct 25, 2017

Entrepreneurship for Job Creation: A Strategy Map

This chart shows the common themes that emerged when we took inventory of entrepreneurship and small business related initiatives aimed at creating jobs.

Resource on Sep 11, 2017

A Day in a Life: How Racism Impacts Families of Color [INFOGRAPHIC]

If life is a game, it is rigged.

Resource on Aug 10, 2017

The Equipt Report: Becoming a High-Performing City, A Benchmark Study 2017

The Equipt Report is a comprehensive overview of our survey findings and a discussion of how cities fared across the seven elements of the Equipt to Innovate framework.

Resource on Jul 14, 2017

Voicing Race: Racial Equity Here [PODCAST]

In the second episode of our Voicing Race podcast, Living Cities speaks with mayors and city staff participating in the Racial Equity Here initiative, on their efforts to combat structural and institutional racism.

Resource on May 12, 2017

Hiring in the Social Sector: Tips for Job Seekers and Organizations

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