When You Can’t Say Equity: Advancing Equity in an Anti-Equity Context

In this one-hour session, our team provided a supportive environment to discuss the challenges of advancing equity in contexts where there are direct challenges, answered questions, and provided insights and strategies that we’ve learned are showing promise to continue to advance the work. This session was held on August 29, 2024.

Participants:

Jennifer Splansky Juster, Executive Director, Collective Impact Forum
_ Cindy Santos, Senior Associate, Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
Paul Schmitz, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum and CEO, Leading Inside Out
Junious Williams, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum, and Principal, Junious Williams Consulting, Inc.

Related Resources to the topic or referenced during the session chat:

Resources Referenced from the Chat, plus other related resources:

Targeted Universalism: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/target...

Frameworks Institute – Talking about Health Equity: https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/p...

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

Racism-Conscious Policymaking as an Alternative to Race-Based Policymaking: https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resear... ?

Disaggregation Nation Report: https://civilrights.org/edfund/disagg...

Allegories on race and racism: https://www.health.state.mn.us/commun...

Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...

Exploring the Four Voices of Design to Solve Complex Problems: https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

The works of Prentis Hemphill: https://prentishemphill.com/

Spoon Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_t...

Emergent Strategy: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/e...

Rest is Resistance: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit...

Kin Universe: https://kinuniverse.com/

Opportunity Atlas: https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

Racial Equity Toolkit: https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

Community Engagement Toolkit: https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

Advocacy: What you can and can't do: https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

Advancing Equity in Times of Polarization and Division https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

Power Building, Trust, and Relationships: Supporting Movement Beyond Moments of Reckoning https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

For Philanthropy to Succeed, All Strategies Must Address Disability https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

Mental Health is Important for Every Collaborative https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

How Belonging, Meaning, Wellbeing, and Purpose (BMWP) Can Empower Youth and Their Communities https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...

Centering Equity in Challenging Times https://collectiveimpactforum.org/res...