Racial Equity Accountability

Government Efforts
Racial Equity Impact Assessment Tools
Evaluating Racial Equity Efforts

Government Efforts

Across the country, hundreds of cities, counties, and other governmental jurisdictions are making commitments to achieve racial equity by developing racial equity plans, creating offices of racial equity, and engaging in other racial equity efforts. This section provides tools and examples related to these efforts.

Guidance

• Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual, Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)  
• Racial Equity: Getting to Results, GARE 
• Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas into Action, GARE
• Racial Equity Toolkit: Implementing Greenlining’s Racial Equity Framework, The Greenlining Institute 

Examples of Government Racial Equity Plans

• Racial Equity Plan, Boulder, Colorado
• Racial Equity Toolkit, Portland, Oregon 
• Race and Social Justice Initiative, City of Seattle, Washington 
• Mecklenburg County Equity Action Plan, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
• Our Equitable Future: A Roadmap for the Chicago Region, Chicago, Illinois
• Study to Identify Methods to Assess Equity: Report to the President, pursuant to Executive Order 13985 (January 20, 2021) on “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” Office of Management and Budget

Sampling of Offices of Racial Equity

• Division of Social Justice and Racial Equity, Birmingham, Alabama
• Office of Diversity and Equity, New Hanover County, North Carolina
• Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Racial and Social Justice Initiative, Seattle, Washington
• Council Office of Racial Equity, Washington, DC
• Office of Equity and Inclusion, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
• Office of the Chief Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity Officer, Indiana
• GARE map of government entities working toward racial equity

Racial Equity Impact Assessment Tools

Evaluating Racial Equity Efforts

This section provides resources related to evaluating decision-makers’ efforts to advance racial equity. 

• Doing evaluation in service of racial equity, Every Child Thrives, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual, GARE (Pages 20-29)  
• Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity, GARE (Page 11)