Equity
About Equity
All Network members are engaged in work to advance equitable well-being across the North Sound region. Our equity work is guided by a set of shared beliefs:
- We believe that inherited legacies of systemic racism have perpetuated trauma and exclusion, particularly among Indigenous populations and communities of color.
- We believe in honoring tribal sovereignty and learning from the experiences of Tribal and Indigenous populations.
- We believe in holistic, intergenerational approaches to well-being.
- We believe in healing and stewardship.
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The following resources will help you get started.
Racial Equity and Belonging
This publication shares information on the #BelongingPledge and encourages readers to commit to the discussion about racial equity no matter how uncomfortable i...
How to Generate Consensus for Targeted Universalism
This issue brief describes three keys to build consensus around Targeted Universalism. These insights were identified through work with a long-term community in...
Partner Learning Session: Targeted Universalism as a Strategy for Transformative Change
This July 2020 learning session focuses on Targeted Universalism as a strategy for transformative change.
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Adultism: The Training Ground for All Other Oppression
Adultism refers to the systematic discrimination and prejudice faced by young people solely based on their age, where adults hold power and authority over them....
Black History Month Public Health Reading List
Explore books, articles, and videos recommended by Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students.
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
More than 30 Black women’s organizations and advocates present proactive Reproductive Justice policy solutions.
How do we live together when we profoundly disagree? A conversation with john powell
For john, the most important of those things is bridging, connecting with other people in a way that helps them feel like they belong and helps you feel like yo...
Pathways to Population Health Equity
Pathways to Population Health Equity offers a framework, roadmaps, compass, and associated tools for public health practitioners to build a more prepared, resil...
Inclusive Language Guide
Our language must continually evolve with our understanding and acceptance of diverse groups of people. This booklet aims to guide us… in the quest to com...
Advancing Holistic Well-Being Measures
NLC and Oxford embarked on a dual effort aimed at a pilot in metropolitan Atlanta, while also considering a broader set of emerging models spurred by cities and...
BIPOC Provider Perspectives
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) health practitioner perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica ...
BIPOC Patient Perspectives
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOD) patient perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica Koller, MS O...
The Endangered Languages Project
Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost....
FEMA Tools for Practitioners
Use FEMA programs, research, and guidance to improve your community’s ability to prepare and recover.
Gender-Affirming Pediatric Care Toolkit
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents, and their families are increasingly seeking out pediatricians and mental health providers for educat...
Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Disability (REALD) Implementation
REALD is a type of demographic information, like age, marital status, employment and more. REALD stands for race, ethnicity, and language, disability. In 2020, ...
Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map
The Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map is an interactive mapping tool that compares communities across our state for environmental health dispariti...
Measuring Mobility from Poverty
What would it take to dramatically increase mobility from poverty? To answer this question, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty gathered a range of in...
Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities
Written by Eve Tuck, State University of New York, published in the Harvard Educational Review in 2009. In this open letter, Eve Tuck calls on communities, rese...
Reimagining Data – learning session recording
Recording of the October learning session, Reimagining Data, supported by the Equity Cohort. Part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series. With pan...
Reimagining Data – learning session slide deck
PDF of the slides from the October learning session, Reimagining Data. This session was part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series.
Targeted Universalism
This video introduces the targeted universalism framework, a way to make transformational changes in society. It explains the difference between targeted univer...
Guide to Equitable, Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning
This guide aims to assist local governments in designing and implementing a community-driven, equitable climate preparedness planning process. The guide takes a...
Do No Harm Guide: Additional Perspectives on Data Equity
This report explains how data practitioners have historically fallen short in data collection, application, and representation, leading to lasting harm and dist...
Northwest tribes’ legacy, and power, of telling a good story
News article by KUOW in Seattle about Lummi Nation and Children of the Setting Sun Productions.
Bolder Advocacy
Resources and expertise to help nonprofits engage in advocacy work. Bolder Advocacy promotes active engagement in democratic processes and institutions by givin...
A Community-Centered Approach to Data Sharing and Policy Change: Lessons for Advancing Health Equity
Report produced by Center for Health Care Strategies, highlighting key lessons to inform data-sharing partnerships between community-based organizations, state ...
Tribal Approaches to Wellness film series
Watch the full livestream of the premiere of Children of the Setting Sun Productions’ documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness, featuring th...
Marilyn Scott: Portrait of Leadership – Upper Skagit Indian Tribe
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Holistic Health & Recovery – Tulalip Tribes
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Transport for the People – Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Salmon and Our Health – Stillaguamish Tribe
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
The Big Walk – Sauk-Suiattle Indian Nation
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Waking the Canoes – Samish Indian Nation
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Rikkole Cree Canoe Club – Nooksack Tribe
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Sche’lang’en Village – Lummi Nation
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
North Sound Cohort Glossary
Glossary of terms helpful for the Collaborative Action Network learning journey, by North Sound ACH.
What is Health Equity
While the term health equity is used widely, a common understanding of what it means is lacking. What is health equity? By the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Equity Manifesto
The Equity Manifesto by Policy Link. Includes definition and explanation of equity as seen by Policy Link and partners.
Racial Equity Map Glossary
Glossary by the Racial Equity Learning & Action Community.
Relevant Engagement
Relevant Engagement, LLC is a consulting firm based in the state of Washington. The mission is to engage youth, adults, institutions, and community organization...
Center for Guided Pathways
The Center for Guided Pathways works with student leaders & student affairs professionals at all levels. The Center believes that closing demographic dispar...
Anti-racist Resources: Google Doc
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices ...
A Community Builder’s Toolkit
Tools for creating healthy, productive interracial/multicultural communities.
Racial Justice: Acts of Resistance webinar
Recorded webinar of North Sound ACH learning session for our monthly series, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, June 15, 2022. With Ramona Beltran (Univers...
Meaningful Work & Wealth learning session
Recording of May’s learning session for Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, Meaningful Work & Wealth
Meaningful Work & Wealth: Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series [slide deck]
Slide deck for the May learning session, Meaningful Work & Wealth.
Remaking the Economy: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
A webinar hosted by Nonprofit Quarterly and Shelterforce, with four field leaders discussing central questions regarding economic justice, racial justice, and s...
The Big Shift: An Economy Built for Thriving Together
An article in the National Civic Review, written by Bobby Milstein, about the positive forces that could be unleashed if our economic life were truly oriented a...
Well-Being Portfolio
A visual toolkit from the Rippel Foundation for regional leaders to create a balanced and impactful set of policies, programs, and practices to transform well-b...
Prosperity Now 2022 Federal Policy Priorities Brief
Report from Prosperity Now on the federal policies they will focus on in 2022 to create systemic change that allows for everyone, especially low-income, BIPOC c...
National Research Center
This website houses the National Research Center (NRC) at Polco, which gives local governments and other public sector organizations the data they need to make ...
Nonprofit Impact Measurement
This article explores how nonprofits can better measure impact, not just with spreadsheets but with more powerful analytic and story-telling tools. It provides ...
Racial Equity and Belonging
This publication shares information on the #BelongingPledge and encourages readers to commit to the discussion about racial equity no matter how uncomfortable i...
Black Lives Matter: A Movement in Photos
This gallery depicts the violence, rage, and protests of the Black Lives Matter movement across the country.
This is The Wake-Up Call for Nonprofits and Foundations To Get Political
This publication argues that the only way make a dent in social justice is if progressive nonprofits and foundations overcome their disdain of politics and full...
States Are in a Quandary as Taxes Evaporate and Virus Spending Soars
This article explores how states are dealing with unexpected financial strains, as they hurriedly divert funds from elsewhere to fight the outbreak and the econ...
Coronavirus is not the “great equalizer” many say it is
This article details vast inequities due to coronavirus, including who gets sick and has access to care. It argues that COVID-19 is not the great equalizer some...
9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen
This publication outlines nine ideas from interviews with public health experts, education officials and educators around the country for what school reopening ...
‘It’s been a long journey’: Google CEO Sundar Pinchar on new, widespread commitments to racial equity
This article features Google CEO Sundar Pichai on new, widespread commitments to racial equity including increasing black employees at senior levels and a new g...
The National Book Critics Circle Has Imploded
This publication explores how the National Book Critics Circle, an organization of some 800 critics that gives out a number of annual awards, fractured over dis...
These 4 Black-Led Orgs are Hiring a Shared Chief Development Officer to Sustain and Grow Their Work
This article explores how four black-led organizations are hiring a shared chief development officer to sustain and grow their fundraising work.
Demand for Chief Diversity Officers is High. So is Turnover
This publication discusses how many diversity executives find themselves rotating through C-suites due to frustration over lack of real action and resources. Th...
Race-Equity Consultants in Demand in Hollywood: “Never Once Have We Been So Busy”
This article discusses the rise in demand for diversity and inclusion experts in the entertainment industry in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Breo...
Bicycling’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
This article explores how cycling as a culture, sport, and industry has failed Black America, amidst a national reckoning with systemic racism. It outlines the ...
The Number One Reason White Men Give for Not Getting Involved With Diversity and Inclusion
This blog cites business as the primary reason that most while male employees don’t engage with diversity and inclusion efforts. It shares research from a...
Governor Newsom Proposes Significant Arts and Cultural Investments as Part of New Economic Recovery Package
This news releases details how Governor Gavin Newsom submitted his $100 billion California Comeback Plan to the Legislature, a comprehensive recovery package ta...
Nonprofit Pushes Chicago to Build Anti-Racist Arts Community
This article introduces Enrich Chicago, a nonprofit formed to highlight the lack of leaders of color within the city’s arts and cultural systems. Enrich Chica...
Tentative Ruling Stops LA County’s Most Ambitious Justice Reform Measure
This article explores how a Los Angeles Superior Court judge published a ruling that will stop the voter-approved Measure J from taking effect. Measure J was in...
LADWP Hires First-ever Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
LADWP Hires First-ever Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
Trump Bans Diversity Training, Claiming It’s Divisive, Anti-American Propaganda
This article discusses Trump’s decision to prohibit federal agencies from conducting cultural sensitivity trainings because they are “divisive, anti-Ame...
Why are Law Schools Afraid to Discuss Breonna Taylor?
This piece discusses the question of why law schools who claimed #BlackLivesMatter when their students were off-campus during the summer were afraid to discuss ...
George Gascon Sworn in as DA, Lays Out Extensive, Ambitious Series of Reforms
This news article describes the work of the new Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascón. He plans to stop criminalizing public health problems and acts li...
Young L.A. “Vaccine Chasers” Crowd Unofficial Standby Lines in Hopes of a Shot
This article explores vaccine inequity in L.A. where many seniors, despite being eligible to receive the shots, had failed to secure appointments. Many others c...
L.A. City Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto to Reimagine $88 Million in Funding to Communities of Color
This news article discusses how the L.A. City Council voted to override the Mayor’s veto of a proposal they backed to reallocate $88 million from the Los Ange...
House Hearing on Proposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion-related Legislation
This article discusses the lack of diversity among boards in U.S. companies, especially with regards to representation of women or racially diverse members. It ...
Vaccine Hesitancy May Not Be Why People of Color Are Getting COVID Shots at a Lower Rate
As this article explores, there is widespread racial inequality in who is receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, possibly due to lack of access and lack of investment ...
Editorial: Food and Grocery Workers are Essential. They Should Have “Essential” Pay and Protections Too
This article highlights risks faced by food delivery and grocery store workers, who are among the lowest paid and least protected of those deemed “essential...
COVID-19 Crisis or Not, Racist Policies Have No Place in California
This articles advocates for policy reform, including how extending tax credits to immigrant workers and their families can end an exclusionary policy that exace...
Enjoying Nature During the Shutdown is Easy – But Only if You’re Rich
This article explores how accessing green space and nature is a privilege reserved largely for the rich and White, focusing specifically on Los Angeles.
5 Ways to Be an Ally During COVID-19
This article outlines 5 steps to being more of an ally to people and students during COVID-19 and beyond, from acknowledging privilege to sharing power and oppo...
As Universities Tighten Budget During the Coronavirus, What Will Happen to Diversity Initiatives?
Amidst COVID-19 budget cuts, many universities pulled back diversity and inclusion efforts. This article explores how DEI work suffers when institutions cut spe...
We Don’t Need to Return to Normal––We Need a New Normal
This op-ed argues against returning to normal life and the same oppressive systems in a post-pandemic world, offering inspiration for achieving equality and jus...
What Experts Say About Narrowing COVID-19 Racial Disparities
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
What Experts Say About Narrowing COVID-19 Racial Disparities
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
How White Backlash Controls American Progress
This article explores the concept and history of “backlash”, which the author argues is holding the United States back from making social progress a...
Black Americans 2.6 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19
This blog by the Sierra Club explores how a public health disparity, the disproportionate mortality of Black Americans due to COVID-19, is rooted in systemic ra...
George Floyd’s Death is One Of Many Reasons Activists Are Pushing For a “People’s Budget” in LA
This article describes efforts to creating a “People’s Budget” in Los Angeles following the killing of George Floyd. It explores the effects o...
Michelle Obama Responds to George Floyd’s Murder: ‘It’s Up To All of Us’ To Create Change
This piece describes former First Lady Michelle Obama’s reaction to the killing of George Floyd including advice to the public to self-examine and listen ...
The Answer to Police Violence is not “Reform.” It’s Defunding. Here’s Why
This piece explores how bias training, body cameras, and community dialogue in Minneapolis have not been sufficient in ending police violence. The author makes ...
How Social Platforms are Responding to #BlackLivesMatter Protests Across the US
This article explores how social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok responded to the death of George Floyd and ensuing #BlackLivesMatte...
The Missing Element for Police Accountability: Political Will
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, this article examines the need for political will to reform policing in the U.S. and protect black and brown constit...
Racism is Killing the Planet
This piece published in the Sierra Club argues that the ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world. It ex...
Following National Trend, Boston Art Museum Workers 9-1 Votes in Favor of Union
This story covers how employees at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts voted overwhelmingly to unionize, opening a new era of collective bargaining at the city’s f...
IE Black Equity Fund Launches Black Friday Giving Campaign
This article explores how the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund launched an online giving campaign for 40 organizations that focus on issues including higher educ...
Who Can and Can’t Get Vaccinated Right Now
This story explores global barriers to getting the vaccine; it demonstrates that getting a vaccine means living in the right place or knowing the right people.
We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholder’s Republic
From the author of “How to Be an Antiracist”, this article explores American narcissim, concepts of freedom and community, and how the pandemic has ...
Watch Doctors Explain Why COVID-19 May Be More Dangerous for African Americans
This video series by TIME features two doctors who explain how the African American community is facing systemic forces that make them particularly vulnerable t...
Los Angeles as We Knew It Is History, But Its Future Begins Today
In this piece, Los Angeles’ most thoughtful academics, politicians, business leaders, artists, and chefs answer the question ’What’s next?’ amidst C...
New Hub Launches for Women of Color in Giving
This piece highlights the launch of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy, a program for women of color in the fundraising and philanthropic communitie...
A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Certain Age
Written as a plea to the author’s white male friends, this letter explores the current political landscape and the price COVID-19 is exacting on Black liv...
A Letter to White Male Friends of a Certain Age
Written as a plea to the author’s White male friends, this letter explores the current political landscape and the price COVID-19 is exacting on Black liv...
Viola Davis: Systemic Racism Explained
This video, posted on Instagram by Viola Davis, explains systemic racism and momentum for reparations through storytelling and animation.
Statements About George Floyd Are a Start, but How Will Organizations Live Their Values?
In this interview, Kerrien Suarez discusses how philanthropy approached racial diversity, equity, and inclusion at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic and ho...
Vaccine Access Codes for Hard-Hit Black, Latino Communities Improperly Used in Other L.A. Areas
This article explores how a California program intended to improve COVID-19 vaccine availability to people in hard-hit communities of color was misused by outsi...
Land Back: April session – Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series
Recording of the Land Back learning session on April 20, 2022 hosted by North Sound ACH. This sessions is the first in the 2022 Advancing a Just and Inclusive C...
Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
Slide deck for April learning session, Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
Health Equity: Governor’s Interagency Council of Health Disparities
This webpage introduces the Governor’s Interagency Council of Health Disparities, which was created in 2006 in Washington state. The council is responsibl...
HB 1783: Creating the Washington State Office of Equity
Washington State House Bill 1783 creates a Washington state office of equity. This resource offers a history of and the details about the bill as well as analys...
State House Passes Formation of Nation’s First Statewide “Office of Equity”
This news article covers the passing of legislation in Washington state, House Bill 1783. The bill would set up an Office of Equity within the Governor’s Offi...
As Farm Work Carries On, Some Worry About Becoming Washington State’s New Coronavirus Epicenter
This article highlights the essential work done and risks faced by farrmworkers in fields, orchards and packing houses essential to keeping grocery stores stock...
As Coronavirus Freezes the Economy, Gov. Inslee Slashes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Washington State Budget
This news article describes how Washington Gov. Jay Inslee used his power to cut $445 million in spending from the state operating budget in response to the COV...
Farmworkers Sue Washington State Seeking Coronavirus Protections
Featuring voices from labor organizers, this article covers how labor unions sued Washington state over lack of protections for farmworkers. It was one of the f...
Washington State Issues Emergency Rule to Protect Farm Workers from COVID-19. But Worker Advocate Fear It Won’t Save Many Lives
This article describes an emergency rule that the state of Washington ordered following a lawsuit from labor unions for inadequate protection of essential worke...
Community Concern in Washington State Over Hospital Merger
This article describes a merger of two health care networks in Washington state, which represents the increasing monopolization of health care. The merger will ...
Washington Fund Aims to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Equity In BIPOC, Rural Communities
This article describes how Washington’s new Vaccine Equity Fund partners with community-based organizations to vaccinate communities hit hardest by COVID-19. ...
Farmworkers Endure Brutal Conditions During Historic Heat Wave
This article tells the story of the elderly and children who are among the thousands of agricultural workers who harvested blueberries and cherries throughout t...
What Local Firms Are Doing to Promote Diversity and Equity
This article explores how businesses are revising their company policies to address racial equity concerns and increase diversity. It uses Boeing, Everett Schoo...
A Great Divide: LA Equity Index
This resource highlights equity (or the lack thereof) in Los Angeles and maps out important factors that contribute to this challenge, including socioeconomic, ...
COVID-Nomics Mapping
This interactive tool maps coronavirus socioeconomic disparities in LA. It offers exploration by COVID-19 cases, vulnerable renters, proportion of people uninsu...
COVID-19: Investing in Black Lives and Livelihoods
This article explores how Black Americans will experience a disproportionate share of the disruption from COVID-19—from morbidity and mortality to unemploymen...
11 Free Online Courses on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Sign Up for Right Now that Will Make You a Better Leader
As the world contends with social justice and equity issues, this article describes how to navigate a diverse workforce and be an inclusive person. It summarize...
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
This website provides resources for small businesses, micro-enterprise, and non-profit organizations during COVID-19 in both English and Spanish. It allows for ...
COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future
This piece explores how applying a racial justice lens requires confronting power, shifting resource distribution, and moving towards system-wide transformation...
Eight Keys to Bridging Our Differences
As part of the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences initiative, this article explores the concept of bridging and provides eight key principles ...
Bridging or Breaking? The Stories We Tell Will Create the Future We Inhabit
This article by john a. powell implores readers to move past inclusion to belonging. This article also introduces two main types of stories—bridging stories, ...
The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging
This article by john a. powell and Stephen Menedian explores the concept of “othering”, which encompasses all prejudices on the basis of group ident...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report and Plan
This DEI plan from Michigan State is a framework of recommendations to guide institutional plans and decisions for increasing equity. It asks and answers a seri...
Meet the Black Design Collective Reimagining How Cities Get Built
This article explores the work of BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners which is reimagining how cities get built. Urba...
You Don’t Need Invasive Tech for Successful Contact Tracing. Here’s How it Works.
After interviewing contact tracing experts and taking an online course in surveillance technology, the author of this piece argues that we do not need invasive ...
Pushing Back Against Habits of White Supremacy During A Crisis
This blog is part of a series that examines the habits of white supremacy culture. It provides examples of how these habits show up in virtual spaces during rem...
How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
Summarizing findings from White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America, this article examines how white children learn about race. It als...
Participatory Budgeting, Austerity, and Institutions of Democracy
This paper examines the implementation and evolution of participatory budgeting in the City of Vallejo, California, following its 2008 bankruptcy. It also refle...
COVID-19 — Mapping the Stages of Development in Contagion Response
This article explores the social patterns, informed by the fields of psychology, group dynamics, and leadership studies, of coronavirus. It outline the course o...
How 2 Very Different Los Angeles Hospitals Are Facing Coronavirus
This article compares two Los Angeles hopsitals which serve vastly different communities, but which have both been crippled by equipment and personnel shortages...
Companies: Now Is Not The Time To Put Diversity And Inclusion On The Back Burner
This piece makes the argument for why companies should prioritize diversity and equity efforts, even amidst COVID-19. Reasons include that people of color are d...
New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates
In a summary of a new nationwide study, this article examines how coronavirus patients in areas that had high levels of air pollution before the pandemic are mo...
Black Americans Face Alarming Rate of Coronavirus Infection in Some States
This article examines the relationship between race and the coronavirus, highlighting how Black Americans face alarming rates of infection in some states.
Coronavirus Has Shown That It Is Possible to Change the US Criminal Justice System
This opinion piece argues that dismantling mass incarceration in the United States is not a question of possibility or costs, but a matter of imagination and wi...
Checkpoints, Curfews, Airlifts: Virus Rips Through Navajo Nation
This article explores how the pandemic ripped through Navajo nation and how officials responded by putting up checkpoints, assembling field hospitals and threat...
3 Black Female ER Doctors Launch Free Telehealth Service For Marginalized Communities To Deal With COVID-19
This story explores how three Los Angeles-based women doctors launched a free telehealth app and online portal called myCOVIDMD that safely connects individuals...
Make Racial Equity Central to California’s Public Health Response to COVID-19
This brief explores how we can center racial equity in the distribution and implementation of emergency response funds. It calls for a number of key strategies ...
UC Berkeley Group Builds Interactive COVID-19 Mapping Tool For Vulnerable Populations
This news article explores how a new online mapping tool is helping researchers more accurately locate California communities most at risk from the novel corona...
Virtual Medical Visits Are The New Normal During the Coronavirus Pandemic
This article discusses the impact that California’s stay-at-home order had on the use of telehealth visits. It explores how telehealth will continue to be fun...
Police Violence Makes COVID-19 Worse for Black Americans
This article discusses a study of the relationship between stress and disease. It was found that the trauma and stress that police violence causes for Black peo...
In Philanthropy, Race Is Still a Factor in Who Gets What, Study Shows
This article previews a report on inequity in philanthropy, which shows that nonprofit organizations led by black and Latino executive directors lag behind peer...
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
This feature by Barack Obama shares lessons learned from history about the struggle for racial justice. Obama advocates for insitiutional and policy changes, es...
Why is COVID-19 Hitting Black Communities Harder? Residential Segregation is a Key Factor
This article explores the history of tuberculosis and provides residential COVID data, demonstrating how Black and Latinx communities are being hit the hardest....
Fostering Inclusive Workplaces During Isolation
This article explores how COVID risk and mortality are being exacerbated by the same issues that created and perpetuated inequity before the pandemic. It also p...
What Prior Disasters Have Taught Housing Advocates About How to Respond to COVID-19
Whether through hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes, disaster relief nonprofits have laid the groundwork for emergency preparedness. This article explores how...
The Pandemic May Leave Communities of Color Undercounted in the Census — And Cost Them Billions
This article explores how the pandemic may leave communities of color vastly undercounted in the census, costing them billions in public funds.
The Coronavirus is Devastating Already Devastated Communities
This article contextualizes the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice’s roadmap, which outlines an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery effort. It pr...
Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters
This report from McKinsey is the third in a series investigating the business case for diversity. Using data from over 1,000 companies, the report demonstrates ...
McKinsey’s New Report Finds That Diversity Does Not Equal Inclusion
This article summarizes a recent report from Mckinsey aimed at examining the business case for diversity in executive positions. It found that companies with gr...
Science Explains Why Unconscious Bias Training Won’t Reduce Workplace Racism. Here’s What Will
This article examines whether unconscious bias training can eradicate prejudice and discrimination from the workplace. It provides evidence from academia and sc...
Systemic Racism Can Leave Black People Suffering From Symptoms Similar to PTSD
This article explores how systemic racism can leave black people suffering from symptoms similar to PTSD. It offers suggestions for dismantling racism in the pr...
GirlTrek Uses Black Women’s History to Encourage Walking as a Healing tradition
This written and audio segment tells the story of GirlTrek, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and healing of Black women and girls. The organizat...
Top 5 Reasons Leaders Fail At Race Inclusion and How to Fix Them
This article argues that companies need to revisit diversity and inclusion strategies, and hiring managers must develop a more focused inclusion agenda. It prov...
How to End Anti-Blackness in Cities
This piece examines how cities have long perpetuated anti-Black racism through policies and physical spaces that have institutionalized the economic inequality,...
This New Nonprofit Trains People for Digital Media Jobs After Leaving Prison
This story explores how 12 formerly incarcerated individuals will learn how to produce videos, podcasts, and other digital media in a nonprofit, Second Chance S...
Trauma, Promise, and Possibility’
This publication tells the story of Jawanza Malone, executive director of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, and countless other Black-led nonprofits a...
Racial Inquiry – A Question of Common Humanity and Unique Individuality
This audio and written segment explores the concept of racial inquiry (RI), which can be an approach to personal and organizational leadership development as we...
L.A. Latino, Black Students Suffered Deep Disparities in Online Learning, Records Show
Exposing the deep disparities faced by students of color amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this article shares findings from a report by the Los Angeles Unified Schoo...
California State University Now Requires Ethnic Studies
This news article describes Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to sign into law a bill which mandates that students take ethnic studies as a graduation requ...
How to Make Sure City Budgets Can Prioritize Racial Equity
This article explores what government agencies can do to make meaningful steps toward racial equity by making sure city budgets reflect their values. Recommenda...
California Will Now Require More Diversity on Company Boards
This article covers California Governor Newsom’s decision to sign into law a diversity mandate. Public companies headquartered in California will be legal...
Women Filled More Than 600 Board Seats Since California Diversity Mandate Was Enacted, Report Finds
This article shares findings from a report on California’s 2018 diversity mandate, which compelled public companies headquartered in the state to ensure g...
The Most Segregated (And Integrated) Cities in the SF Bay Area
This publication by the Othering and Belonging Institute describes findings from their project investigating the extent, harm and solutions to racial residentia...
Racial Equality Remains Unfinished for Workplaces
This article summarizes two recent studies which reveal the challenges faced by Black employees. It explores racial inequality in the workplace and advocates fo...
Families Sue California Over Inequalities in Online Education for Low-Income Black and Latino Students, Suit is First of its Kind
This article examines a lawsuit in which several California families allege the state isn’t providing adequate support and equipment necessary for children of...
Trust, Race and Grants Data
An analysis of grant-funded organizations and unrestricted net assests of Black-led organizations, this article explores how foundations can advance racial equi...
Tribal Elders Are Dying From the Pandemic, Causing a Cultural Crisis for American Indians
This article explores how coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tr...
Who’s Tracking Racial Disparities in Health and Human Services?
This analysis describes the previous work of Texas’ Office of Minority Health Statistics and Engagement, which tracked disparities in health and was accou...
Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns
This article and audio segment tells the story of Ronell Foster, Willie McCoy, and other unarmed Black men who have been fatally shot by police. Other findings ...
LAUSD Board Votes to Cut School Police Force, Divert Funds to Black Student Achievement Plan
This article and video news segment tells the story of how the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to cut 133 positions from the L.A. School Police Depart...
How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System
This article examines the inequity of COVID-19 vaccination systems in the U.S., highlighting barriers like transportation, language, disability, internet access...
Unarmed Civilians, Not Cops, to Respond to Mental Health Crises Calls in Oakland
This article highlights how unarmed civilians and outreach workers from the Oakland Fire Department are responding to mental health crises calls in Oakland, rat...
Why Leaders Should Cultivate Employee Groups to Foster Inclusion and High Performance
Highlighting the importance of creating communities within a community, this article advocates for companies to create employee groups for women, veterans, the ...
Businesses and Philanthropy Unite to Fight Racial Wealth Gap
This article describes NinetyToZero, a new initiative by the CEOs of Starbucks and Goldman Sachs along with leaders from philanthropy and academia. The initiati...
Virgina Faces Complicated Debate Over Two Confederate Monuments
This podcast explores the debate underway about what to do with buildings, monuments and roads named after two Confederate generals in Virginia.
What Do Conservatives Fear About Critical Race Theory?
Through a case study of a Texas education bill, HB 3979, this article explores the political conflict over critical race theory. The bill, which has become a mo...
The US is Increasingly Diverse, So Why is Segregation Getting Worse?
This article explores why the U.S. is become more, not less, segregated in recent years. It argues that residential housing segregation drives many, if not all,...
The Roots of Structural Racism Project
As part of the Roots of Structural Racism Project, this report contains startling findings about the intensification of racial residential segregation in recent...
6 Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Diversity in Your Organization
This article highlights six key takeways from a literature review on diversity efforts in organizations, arguing that trainings alone will not address systemic ...
Black Women Leaders: Navigating the Intersection of Gender and Race
This interview with scholars Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo examines the vastly different experiences of Black and white women in corporate America. The profe...
Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New Map Highlights L.A.’s Indigenous Communities
This article describes how CIELO, a local Indigenous organization, partnered with UCLA to create a map of Latin American Indigenous languages in L.A. County. Th...
How Mental Health First Responders in an Oregon City “De-escalate” Conflict and Save Lives
This article tells the story of CAHOOTS — Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets — a program run by a social services center in Eugene, Oregon...
3 Ways Companies Can Help Advance Racial Equity
Exposing the slow pace of investment in racial equity by corporations, this article provides three tangible approaches to promoting racial justice. The authors ...
Corporate America’s $50 Billion Promise
This article explores the committments and investments of corporations and companies following the murder of George Floyd and demands from the Black Lives Matte...
LA Council Orders “Racial Equity Audit” of City Programs, Policies, and Practices
This news article describes The Los Angeles City Council’s move to have staff members draft a “Racial Equity Audit” of the city’s programs, or polic...
LA County Moves Forward with Return of Black Family’s Land
This AP news article shares the Los Angeles County plan for returning a beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who built a resort for African Amer...
Chickahominy Tribe reacquires ancestral lands
This news article describes how four years after the Chickahominy Tribe in Virginia received federal recognition, some of its traditional lands will be given ba...
Do salmon have rights?
This article describes a legal battle between Seattle and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe alleging that the city’s hydroelectric dams violate the native salmon...
Snoqualmie Tribe Acquires 12,000 Acres of Ancestral Forestland in King County
This news release details how the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Tribe headquartered in King County, has acquired roughly 12,000 acres of its a...
The Swinomish Reservation
This website describes and explores the Swinomish Reservation, which is located on Fidalgo Island in Western Washington State. It also explores unlawful attempt...
Tribal Learning
Building relationships with tribes of the North Sound Region and committed to an ongoing journey of Tribal learning and equity.
Virtual Community Engagement Guide: A Toolkit for Hosting Online Community Engagement and Meetings in Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Communities
This toolkit was created to help address common barriers and opportunities of virtual meetings. It is intended to facilitate effective online community events a...
Creating Safe & Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Clients
Creating Safe & Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Clients webinar recorded on 7/31/19
Unleashing the Creativity of Teachers and Students to Combat Climate Change: An Opportunity for Global Leadership
This article outlines teaching and learning tactics grounded in decades of research on how children learn and helps build mastery of core academic content while...
Public Transportation in the U.S: Driver of Health and Equity
Tribal Public Health and the Law: Selected Resources
This publication by the CDC provides resources related to Tribal Public Health. The resources include general ones related to Indian health policy and tribal pu...
Priorities in Tribal Public Health
This report outlines a series of urgent priorities for strengthening tribal public health, including building community capacity, strengthening local economies,...
Multisolving 101: Co-Creating Vital Conditions for Thriving Together
As our society grapples with multiple systemic crises, including COVID-19, climate change, and racial injustice, an opportunity for multi-solving emerges. Multi...
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
This agreement by the Indigenous Environmental Network outlines a series of principles for a “just” transition to a green economy. It recognizes Ind...
The Role of Indigenous Peoples in Combating Climate Change
This journal article explores how indigenous peoples have been agents of environmental conservation through activism and political engagement at local and natio...
Original Caretakers: Indigenous groups team up with conservationists to protect swaths of US
This story discusses how environmental organizations and tribes have been coming together to protect the natural world. A key part of the teamwork has been land...
Land Back: A Necessary Act of Reparations
This article explores the land back movement, the basis for stealing Indigenous lands, demands of the Indigenous land back movement, reparations in the context ...
Beyond the Land Acknowledgement: College “Land Back” or Free Tuition for Native Students
This policy and practice brief explores the concept of “land back” in higher education. The author both problematizes ladn acknowledgements without land bas...
Land Reparations and Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit
This guide is designed to support efforts to work towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. It contains educational articles on colonialism...
COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response
This document provides guidance on how to develop and implement an equitable vaccine response. It contains information on how to most equitably prioritize vacci...
Coronavirus and Latino Health Equity
This website contains a curated collection by Salud America! of culturally relevant stories, infographics, webinars, and other resources on the COVID-19 pandemi...
10 Priorities for Advancing Racial Equity Through the American Rescue Plan: A Guide for City and County Policymakers
This guide suggests municipal strategies for deploying American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds equitably, efficiently, and strategically. It also lays out a framework ...
Beyond Inclusion: Pronoun Use for Health and Well-Being
Everyone is assigned a gender at birth. A doctor checks each baby over, and, primarily based on external features, selects one of two gender options that seems ...
POC Gatherings
North Sound ACH supports a space for dialogue for people of color (POC) as they navigate their individual and collective wellbeing. This is a virtual meeting sp...
North Sound Indigenous Futurity Alliance
The North Sound Indigenous Futurity Alliance is dedicated to supporting young leaders in the North Sound region while specifically holding space for the voices ...
Aligning Systems with Communities to Advance Equity through Shared Measurement: Guiding Principles
To break down silos and effectively address inequities, systems must work together with each other and with community members to collectively align their action...
Roots of Health Inequity Learning Collaborative
This free online course provides a learning environment from which to explore the root causes of inequity in the distribution of disease, illness, and death. Pa...
Racial Equity Core Teams: The Engines of Institutional Change
This guide provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team for designing, coordinat...
INSIGHT Hosts ‘Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy’ Webinar
This webinar is the first in INSIGHT into Diversity’s series, “Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy,” and features six panelists who r...
Acknowledging Native Land is a Step Against Indigenous Erasure
This article focuses on the growing trend in higher education to remember, honor, and acknowledge the the tribes and people to whom this land originally belonge...
LGBTQ Youth Health Equity Data Brief
This report reviews data from 2018 surveys of 10th grade students in Washington on mental health, substance use, abuse, harassment, and bullying. It provides in...
Tribal Health Webinar:”Indigenous Health Indicators”: 7/15/20
This webinar is the third of the Tribal Learning Series and focuses on indigenous health indicators and what being healthy means in context of tribal communitie...
Trauma Informed Care through an Indigenous Lens: Tribal Learning Series
This webinar explains the importance of Indigenous knowledge informed systems of care, components of traditional medicine, how Indigenous knowledge informed sys...
Targeted Universalism: Equity 2.0
This presentation from john a. powell from 2016 outlines the concept of Targeted Universalism through a series of graphics and examples.
Achieving Equitable Outcomes for All
What is Targeted Universalism? Across people and places, vast disparities continue to exist in our nation—from health outcomes to education, to economic oppor...
Indigenous Research Paradigm: A Conceptual Model
This conceptual model, also known as the Spider Conceptual Framework, was developed by Lori Lambert and provides a framework for how to approach, conduct, share...
Health Impact Assessments – A Pathway to Health Equity
This newsletter explores how health impact assessments (HIA) can offer a pathway to health equity by identifying potential health effects of proposed laws, regu...
Racial Equity Impact Assessment
This document provides an overview of Racial Equity Impact Assessments (REIA), how they are used, why they are needed, when they should be conducted, and what t...
Resource Guide — Advancing Health Equity through Gender Affirming Health Systems
This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process in order to advance gender affirming care. It includes templates and...
Putting Equity At The Center
This paper makes the case for why collective impact initiatives must address inequity to be successful. It highlights a range of Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) e...
Powering Health Equity Action with Online Data Tools
This report offers up a set of 10 design principles for online data tools intended to advance health equity. It was developed for researchers, advocates, commun...
What Is Health Equity? And What Difference Does a Definition Make?
This report is the first in a series examining important issues faced in advancing health equity. The purpose of this report is to stimulate discussion and prom...
Equity Language Guide: Governor’s Interagency Council on Health Disparities
This language guide is intended to assist state agencies with talking about issues related to equity and racial equity. It provides standard definitions, terms ...
Equity of Care: A Toolkit for Eliminating Health Care Disparities
This toolkit is a compendium of tools, guides, and resources that help users improve health care quality and equity in their communities. It offers a framework ...
COVID-19: Disproportionate Impact on Navajo Nation and Tribal Communities
This webinar is part of County Health Rankings & Roadmaps’ special topic series, Health Equity and Social Solidarity in the Time of Pandemic: Strategies f...
In Seattle, Protests Over Racial Equity Turn to Land Ownership
This article describes how activists in Seattle are responding to gentrification by advancing racial equity through the King County Equity Now campaign.&nb...
Targeted Universalism
Targeted Universalism–introduced by Berkeley professor john a. powell of the Othering and Belonging Institute–sets universal goals for the general p...
How to Generate Consensus for Targeted Universalism
This issue brief describes three keys to build consensus around Targeted Universalism. These insights were identified through work with a long-term community in...
Health Equity and COVID-19
How we will experience coronavirus was in large part shaped before the pandemic. The policies and systems we inherited have had significant influence on the env...
In the Zone: State Strategies to Advance Health Equity by Investing in Community Health
This chart compares goals, methods, funding sources, and governing structures of initiatives in four states that were developed to address health equity and pop...
Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues
The Racial Equity Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, initiatives, programs, ...
Climate Change, Health, and Equity: Opportunities for Action
Climate change and health inequities are some of the greatest global health threats of the 21st century. This report explores the ways that climate change, heal...
National Equity Atlas
This tool provides data to track, measure, and make the case for racial equity and inclusive prosperity in America’s regions, and states, and nationwide. ...