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Dear Friend,
Race Forward is excited to share our latest report: Monterey County:
From Disenfranchisement to Voice, Power, and Participation
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. The report details the experiences and initiatives of the Building
Healthy Communities (BHC) East Salinas Collaborative
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, which reimagined a community-driven collaboration and redefined the
power dynamic between government, community organizations, and
philanthropy.
The report is a continuation of Race Forward's 2017 work on Building the
We: Healing-Informed Governing for Racial Equity
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, which highlighted the work that leaders from across different sectors
were doing to address mounting racial and economic tensions in Salinas.
In the two years following the release of Building the We , the BHC
Collaborative learned that closing racial equity gaps takes an ecosystem
approach that works across sectors for better alignment, trust building,
and program implementation.
Through this process, collaborative partners identified three essential
elements of systems change:
Community Accountability: holding local institutions accountable for
making progress with tools and processes to ensure government leaders
are held to a standard of progress.
Culture Shift: calling for greater transparency and vulnerability from
institutional partners, and centering the values, needs, and cultural
diversity of the community.
Authentic Partnership for Real Solutions: institutional partners are
grounded in the root causes of the challenges community members face, in
order to authentically engage in the collaborative development of
solutions.
Read the report
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, and watch the accompanying video
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which explores key questions that may inform racial equity efforts in
other communities across the country. What does it take to engage in
authentic collaboration? How do government agencies repair the harms
they've exacerbated in Black and Brown communities and build a new path
towards an equitable future?
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, and support our mission to advance racial justice with a donation to
Race Forward
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today.
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