Assessments & Toolkits

From the introduction: "The Equity Analysis Tool is intended to provide a flexible outline to approach equity issues in any particular project, policy or case and to be easily incorporated to a program’s every day work. This Tool provides a general framework for analyzing the…

From the author: MPHA’s newly revised Health Equity Policy Framework, which guides our staff, Board, and Policy Council and helps us keep health equity and dismantling structural racism at the core of our policy work. Although many nonprofit organizations are committed to the…

Website that includes links to completed racial equity analysis for a variety of projects.

Tool to allow anyone to upload data to quickly assess spatial and demographic disparities.  The tool can help identify whether services tied to a physical location, such as parks, Wi-Fi hotspots, or food distribution sites, equitably reach intended populations and…

A guide to racial equity practices within your community-government collaboration for sustainability and renewable energy policies and programs. With this toolkit, you will learn a process for cultivating your plan, program, or policies through three steps: Preparation Planting…

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disproportionate housing stability challenges faced by Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people, and its health and economic effects made those disparities even worse. State and local governments are now distributing the almost $47 billion in emergency rental…

PowerPoint Presentation on how to begin to center racial equity in civil legal aid work.

A tool to help organize advocacy.  Chart that addresses goals, organizational considerations, constituency, decision makers, tactics, deadlines and tasks. 

Template of issues and questions to consider.

The following provides guidance for identifying and starting to implement race equity work within your organization. This simple tool can help organize priorities after you have conducted an Organizational Equity Assessment or gathered other data and are ready to develop an Organizational Equity…

As with other civil legal aid organizations, a core part of the mission of Columbia Legal Services (CLS) is to advocate for people living in poverty. In the U.S., poverty is inextricably linked with race. We cannot address issues related to poverty withut examining the racialized systems that…

A Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision. REIAs are used to minimize unanticipated adverse consequences in a variety of contexts, including the analysis of proposed…

From the article: An assessment tool that is tailored to child welfare policy decision-making. This tool can be used by child welfare decision makers when developing new policy proposals or considering modifications to existing policy. It can be useful in efforts aimed at reducing or preventing…

Overview of racial justice concepts and how to apply a racial justice lens to decision making.  It explains what a Racial Equity Impact Assessment is, why it’s important, and how decision makers can use this new tool to help reduce, eliminate and prevent racial inequities and…

From the introduction: The purpose of this guide is to add to the resources already created by partners who have been working in this feld by demonstrating how a race equity lens can be adopted by foundations or other organizations that work directly with systems, technical assistance providers…

article we will address the challenges and opportunities presented when a program decides to implement a race conscious approach to advocacy. 

From the introduction: The vision of the Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative is to eliminate racial inequity in the community. To do this requires ending individual racism, institutional racism and structural racism. The Racial Equity Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to…

Legal Services of Northern California in October 2003 looked at racial disparities in health care, wealth, and housing and concluded that we, as a program, could no longer continue a poverty law practice that did not consciously confront these disparities. Here we describe our efforts to adopt a…