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Children can thrive when surrounded by an ecosystem of support that makes it easy to access quality education, health care and food. And when parents thrive, children thrive, so their ecosystem must also include equitable job opportunities and career pathways. The ability to face the future with confidence, assured of equitable opportunities, rounds out the ecosystem.
Education, health, food and workforce systems are interconnected in serving what children need to thrive, and we aim to support holistic solutions across these integrated systems.
Racial equity is an essential approach for ensuring all families can thrive.
Racial equity is an aspirational pursuit insisting that all people, regardless of their racial and ethnic group identification, skin color or physical traits, will have equal opportunity to experience well-being in a just society. Along with leadership development and community engagement, we thread racial equity through everything we do and in all our grantmaking.
We also prioritize racial healing as a pathway to racial equity. Achieving racial equity means that racial disparities are eliminated and that communities and Native Nations have the power to define their own futures. We believe that racial equity is a two-strand approach that focuses on systems transformation and racial healing. Racial healing is about how we all show up as human beings. It is the personal and relationship-oriented work that helps us see each other’s humanity, develop a sense of responsibility for each other’s well-being and commit to creating lasting change that works for everyone.