Promise of an Equitable Future

Racial equity and community engagement: essential approaches for ensuring all families thrive.

Racial equity means that everyone, regardless of their race or ethnicity, has a fair shot at opportunities and success. It’s about ensuring that no one’s identity determines how they are treated or the life outcomes they experience.  

Achieving racial equity requires three things. First, it means transforming the way we organize ourselves – what some people call  systems, practices and policies – in every setting as neighbors, classmates, colleagues and members of the larger community.  Second, it means engaging in racial healing to better understand each other and the ways that racism impacts our lives. Third, it requires communities to collectively envision an equitable future and actively work toward that vision.  

Racial healing allows us to build relationships within our communities l to increase our collective capacity to work toward achieving racial equity. 

When it comes to racial equity and racial healing, we support organizations that: 

• Develop strategies for creating more just and equitable systems. 
• Build community power. 
• Change narratives about the role of racism in shaping people’s experiences. 

We also support initiatives such as: 

• Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation. 
• And, the National Day of Racial Healing, held annually on the day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.