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GARE's Racial Equity InSight is a quarterly curated selection of resources reflecting the current racial equity landscape across the nation.
GARE's Racial Equity InSight is a quarterly curated selection of resources reflecting the current racial equity landscape across the nation. We aim for this snapshot to support deepending racial equity practice and faciliate connections among GARE racial equity practitioners and beyond.
This quarterly scan reflects the continued commitment to center racial equity in government so that our public institutions serve everyone. Racial equity practitioners are transforming what it means to govern for the public good in our country. GARE's members are ensuring accountability, deepening participation by those impacted by systemic racism, creating robust transparency practices, and advancing distributive justice with public resources. These practices taking root in government are an essential foundation for building a vibrant and resilient multiracial democracy that gives us all the freedom to thrive.
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GARE's Racial Equity InSight is a quarterly curated selection of resources reflecting the current racial equity landscape across the nation.
"GARE's Racial Equity InSight is a quarterly curated selection of resources reflecting the current racial equity landscape across the nation. We aim for this snapshot to support deepending racial equity practice and faciliate connections among GARE racial equity practitioners and beyond.
In this issue, we have uplifted artistic and creative approaches to distilling racial equity concepts and strategies. In the section, “Deepening Our Practice,” find resources for strengthening data and evaluation tools such as racial equity impact assessments and economic dashboards."
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This 2015 report can be used to inform communications strategies for a range of issues, from housing to education to health care and beyond.
This 2015 report produced by Jessica King for the Center for Social Inclusion details research findings about the importance of talking about race explicitly and can be used to inform communications strategies for a range of issues, from housing to education to health care and beyond.
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This 2022 case study examines the potential for employee ownership models to address the racial wealth gap, the types of employee ownership models available to local governments and community stakeholders, the strengths/ weaknesses of each model, and recommendations made by advocates and strategies for implementation.
With small and medium businesses supporting nearly half of the U.S. workforce, local and regional government actors are focused on alternative solutions to fluctuations in the economy—compounded by the effects of COVID-19—in underserved communities which are disproportionately of color (Small Business Trends, 2021). Amid ongoing uncertainty and their budget constraints, local communities and major stakeholders are asking: How can we craft effective and equitable small business recovery plans? This case study examines the potential for employee ownership models to address the racial wealth gap, the types of employee ownership models available to local governments and community stakeholders, the strengths/ weaknesses of each model, and recommendations made by advocates and strategies for implementation.
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This 2023 toolbox includes materials for local government staff and their community partners to embed racial equity in housing and planning agencies’ structures, policies, and practices.
The Government Alliance on Race and Equity, Ground Works Consulting, and the Association of Bay Area Governments present Advancing Racial Equity in Housing, Land, and Development, A Toolbox for Racial Equity Pracittioners in Government. This toolbox includes materials for local government staff and their community partners to embed racial equity in housing and planning agencies’ structures, policies, and practices. Materials include conceptual frameworks and the tools and best practices to apply these frameworks in a local government setting. The primary audience for the toolbox is racial equity practitioners within local housing, planning, and community development agencies with some understanding of racial equity concepts and strategies and a desire to learn more about how to apply them to housing and land use contexts. It is designed for practitioners to begin to use the toolbox’s resources with other colleagues and community partners.
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GARE's Racial Equity InSight is a quarterly curated selection of resources reflecting the current racial equity landscape across the nation.
"GARE's Racial Equity InSight is a quarterly curated selection of resources reflecting the current racial equity landscape across the nation. We aim for this snapshot to support deepending racial equity practice and faciliate connections among GARE racial equity practitioners and beyond.
This issue includes resources such as: guidance on writing an organizational solidarity statement, identifying racial equity strategies in procurement processes, and methodology for structural racism research. "
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This course provides the foundation for the GARE approach to advancing racial equity by providing the context of government racism and providing tools and methods toward an equitable and just racial future through government action.
GARE's Advancing Racial Equity in Government Online course is for government employees who want to begin their work as racial equity practitioners in government and the public sector. The self-paced online course is designed to create a shared understanding of key concepts like:
- The history of racism in the United States
- The 4 levels of racism, with an emphasis on institutional and structural racism
- Implicit and explicit bias
- Racial equity
- The role of government in advancing racial equity
- Actions you can take in your workplace to advance racial equity
This self-paced online course includes video, audio, quizzes, readings, and recorded presentations. A personal learning journal is designed to spur individual reflection and retention of core concepts. Enrollment is complemented by an online peer learning community where you can ask questions, comment and reflect with others taking the course and build lasting connections with peers working toward racial equity in public service.
The overall course typically takes up to 8 hours to complete. Each learning module includes an estimated amount of time. We recommend scheduling up to 2 hours a week to complete this course over the course of a month.
Dennis Chin
Vice President, Narrative, Arts and Culture
Race Forward
Dennis Chin serves as Director of Strategic Initiatives at the new Race Forward. The new Race Forward is the union of two leading racial justice non-profit organizations: Race Forward and Center for Social Inclusion (CSI).
In addition, Dennis serves as an organizational trainer/presenter, specializing in 1) the basics of structural racial inequity and 2) communicating effectively about structural racial inequity. Some of the organizations that he has trained/worked with include Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), Arcus Foundation, Kresge Foundation, The California Endowment, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL), National College Access Network, Council of Michigan Foundations, Grantmakers in the Arts, and the United States Breastfeeding Committee.
Dennis is a member and former Co-Chair of the Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY). At GAPIMNY, Dennis grew the organization's leadership, helped launch the Asian Pride Project, and deepened volunteer engagement on issues of race, gender and sexuality. As a result of his work, he was awarded the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance's (NQAPIA) Community Catalyst Award in 2015.
Dennis also serves on the Board of Directors of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, an organization that builds grassroots community power across working-class Asian immigrants and youth in New York City. A five-year member of the Board, he currently serves as its Co-Chair.
Gordon Goodwin
GARE Senior Director
Race Forward
Gordon brings significant experience to Race Forward working with senior leadership teams to help nonprofit organizations achieve mission and program alignment. His specialties include organizational strategy development, program delivery and impact, and governance and leadership. Gordon has worked for 30 years with and for foundations, community development organizations and public : private sector consortia in metropolitan and rural settings. He has worked extensively with organizations that have formed collaborative efforts to advance their advocacy and public policy objectives—specifically, designing and facilitating working group meetings, trainings, governance discussions and organizational strategic alliances. Gordon has contributed to poverty reduction and racial equity public policy efforts with PolicyLink, Northwest Area Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, Foundation for the Mid South, CFED and The Aspen Institute.
He is based in Saint Paul, MN. He is married, a proud parent of two adult children, a caretaker for two small dogs, and repairs and rides motorcycles in his spare time.
Sarah Lawton
GARE Director of Online Community
Race Forward
Sarah is a librarian and organizer dedicated to building strong community-driven networks that advance racial equity. As Director of Online Community for the Government Alliance on Race & Equity, Sarah provides strategic leadership to the GARE Network Portal - a space for racial equity practitioners working in government to make connections and share resources, tools and practices that center racial justice. Prior to joining Race Forward in 2020, Sarah managed public libraries in three states and participated as a founding member of the GARE network.
Julie Nelson
Senior Vice-President of Programs, Race Forward; Founding Director of the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE); Senior Fellow, Othering and Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Race Forward
Julie Nelson is the Founding Director of the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, Senior Vice President at the new Race Forward, and a Senior Fellow with the Haas Institute for and Fair and Inclusive Society (HIFIS) at the University of California, Berkeley. Nelson is the former Director of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights where she served eight years, providing both vision and hands-on work to Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative. She also served in other government positions including the City of Seattle Human Services Department, Administrative Services and Public Utilities, Housing and Urban Development, and Pima County Community Services in Tucson, Arizona.
She has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Washington and has served on the boards of multiple nonprofits. She is actively involved with community groups working for racial and social justice. Nelson is driven by her passion to realize equity and social justice.
Lenore Wyant
GARE Director of Network Engagement
Race Forward
Lenore is an advocate, a prevention specialist and transformative leader with a desire to challenge and inspire systems to think strategically, engage collaboratively and plan creatively when tackling the work of becoming anti-racist. She is a skilled problem solver with an unwavering dedication to race equity, fairness and racial healing.
With over 20 years of leadership and management experience built on a foundation of hands-on, community-based prevention and intervention work with youth and families, her most recent experience was as Pennsylvania’s Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator. This role was for the Office of Justice Programs at the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
Lenore is a 2018 Youth Justice Leadership Institute fellow of the National Juvenile Justice Network. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work and a Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice both from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
For over 10 years she served as a volunteer on her local planning and zoning commission working toward equity in new development. In her free time Lenore enjoys painting, stitching, knitting, drawing and graphic design. She is a daughter, little sis, wife and mother to a teenage daughter and a dog, Logan. Her family enjoying laughing, road trips, camping, board games and meals together.
Leslie Zeitler
GARE Director of Learning Strategies
Race Forward
Leslie started out working for GARE in 2017 as a California Regional Manager and is now stepping into the role of GARE Director of Learning Strategies. As Director of Learning Strategies for the Government Alliance on Race & Equity, Leslie provides strategic leadership for the GARE network with respect to developing and refining learning strategies, tools, and approaches that support people at various phases of their racial equity journeys who are stepping into institutional change work for racial equity in the government sector. Leslie is a social worker by training with a background in child welfare direct services as well as training and workforce development, with an eye to racial equity throughout her career.
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Click here to check out the 2022 GARE Annual Membership In-Review to get a flavor of the topics, issues, and solutions GARE member jurisdictions are advancing locally, as well as big ideas that are animating our movement for advancing racial equity in government!
The 2022 Annual Membership Meeting In-Review provides a flavor of the topics, issues, and solutions GARE member jurisdictions are advancing locally, as well as big ideas that are animating our movement for advancing racial equity in government! This compendium compiles letters from GARE and Race Forward leadership, plenary and breakout session descriptions, select recordings, as well as resources shared in select sessions at our inaugural online and in-person annual membership meeting.
Please note: all linked resources in this compendium must be accessed via the GARE Network Portal. The GARE Network Portal is an online community for employees of GARE member agencies to participate in discussions, learn about GARE member events, connect with other racial equity practitioners working in government, and share resources. If you are an employee of a GARE member jurisdiction and not yet registered for the Network Portal, please sign up here using your government-issued email address. Requests for an account are generally approved within 1-2 business days.
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This 2023 Resource Guide offers a clear path for federal civil servants who are committed to helping their institutions reach an organizational tipping point. The resource focuses on unifying strategies and structures that facilitate a deep, widespread, and sustained commitment to racial equity across the whole of government. Emerging and leading racial equity practitioners who understand it is important to continually bring more people together and to build staff and organizational capacity for change will find this resource helpful.
"Organizing for Racial Equity Within the Federal Government introduces multiple actions that can strengthen and grow the influence of our public institutions, so they serve their highest purpose. Federal partners can deploy an inside/outside strategy to create productive tension and accountability. Federal agencies can overcome inertia by building capacity for lasting organizational change. Networking strategies and networked structures across the whole of the federal government are required for long-term change. Last, racial equity practitioners should anticipate resistance; prepare for backlash; and consider it a teachable moment when it occurs.
Organizing our federal government for the work ahead will require incorporating racial equity values in processes, outcomes, and products. Organizing is dependent on growing the number and influence of racial equity practitioners across agencies and offices. Internally, it prioritizes strong relationships as well as a culture of learning. Externally, it restores and maintains public trust based on accountable government relationships with communities most impacted by racial inequities.
Civil servants can organize inside federal institutions. While the leadership and clear expectations of top officials is critical, committed staff, teams, and managers are the engines for long-term change. With this resource, racial equity experts can improve how they reach across functions as well as throughout the hierarchy to support change."
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This guide provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team, as well as case studies from GARE Network Members.
A Racial Equity Core Team is a primary leadership team responsible for designing, coordinating, and organizing racial equity plans and activities across a government jurisdiction or institution that is committed to equitable systems change. The Core Team often serves as the engine for change, leading the way, pulling others along, chugging through sometimes challenging terrain, keeping things on track, moving a diverse community of people in a common direction, and building the movement and momentum to arrive at the destination of equitable outcomes. This guide provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team, as well as case studies from GARE Network Members.
This guide is published by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Authored by Terry Keleher, Director of Strategic Innovations, Race Forward.
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