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Dear John,
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One week after President Biden announced his second historic Executive
Order 14091, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved
Communities Through The Federal Government
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, mandating racial equity across policy and practice within the federal
government, our team at Race Forward in partnership with PolicyLink
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are releasing our review of a sample of the Equity Action Plans (EAPs)
presented early last year by federal agencies
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Read The Report
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More than 90 federal agencies and departments, including all
cabinet-level agencies and over fifty independent agencies, prepared
EAPs as mandated by President Biden's first racial equity historic
Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
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The findings show that while the EAPs demonstrate a clear distinction
between equity and equality, only half of the thirty plans reviewed
explicitly referenced racial equity. Despite the executive order's
explicitness in naming racial equity in the title, the initial federal
plans have adopted a less prescriptive framing.
"Prioritizing equity is a clear departure from previous
administrations," said Carlton C. Eley, Senior Director for Federal
Strategies at Race Forward
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. "Still, strategies to achieve racial equity differ from those to
achieve equity in other areas. A strong racial equity framework targets
the differences between individual, institutional, and structural racism
as well as the history and current reality of inequities."
A summary of additional findings of the 30 EAPs reviewed in the report
include:
All of the plans correctly distinguish between equity and equality.
28 plans include actionable strategies that have a strong chance of
improving racial equity outcomes.
Eight reference equity tools developed by experts or utilized by other
government partners.
Only three explicitly named "institutional racism" and "structural
racism."
The release of this report is another important step
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in racial justice work to advance equity at the federal level. We thrive
as a country when everyone is included, and all can participate,
prosper, and reach their full potential. It is through this collective
effort that we can transform this nation by fulfilling the aspirations
of a true multiracial democracy and anti-racist government.
In Solidarity,
The Race Forward Team
(We are grateful for the generous support of the Annie E. Casey
Foundation, the Ballmer Group, the Ford Foundation, The JPB Foundation,
the Kresge Foundation, MacKenzie Scott, Open Society Foundations,
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Salesforce, and the Skoll Foundation, as well
as extend our gratitude to Three Views Strategies, LLC for providing
research and analysis that contributed to this report.)
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