Vermont, | Pop. 178,922 | 4 counties

When compiling the 2022 CEDS for the West Central Vermont region, the commission worked closely with partners to host regional economic development workshops. Early in the process, one of these CEDS Workshops was cohosted with the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance. This workshop sought to inform leaders and partners across the region about the CEDS development and begin gathering feedback from stakeholders that would inform their SOAR analysis. Since this meeting, the commission has released two drafts of their CEDS for continued community feedback with multiple avenues for feedback virtually and in-person. Learn more here.

Oregon | Pop. 1,832,634 | 4 counties

In their 2022 CEDS, the EDD team built an interactive online matrix of their action plan, which included all the objectives, related outcomes, corresponding metrics, and leading organizations. These metrics include tracking program participants by race and metrics for participation in a regional equity summit.

To inform survey design, this toolkit from OF/BY/FOR ALL provides insights to thoughtful collect demographic information.

Code for America shares their qualitative research best practices in this guide, which includes considerations for ethics, interviews, and analyzing data.

A three-part recorded webinar series and guide from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provides examples and strategies to incorporate anti-bias and racial equity within program evaluation measures.

A coalition of community-based organizations in the Twin Cities region crafted a six-part framework and scoring system to build a collective commitment to equitable development.

A metric of racial segregation that indicates how evenly members of racial and ethnic groups are distributed across a region as a whole.

Among the common descriptors that individuals use to describe their region is growing or declining. While growth, regarding population, jobs, or industries, is an important metric to understand better the movement of residents, migration data can illuminate population trends alongside descriptive demographics, including if young adults are staying in the region or Black residents are leaving the region. When broken out with demographics, these trends can provide a fuller picture of equity changes over time. For example, in St. Louis, migration trends have shown that many factors, including historic disinvestment and the rising cost of living, have led to Black residents’ displacement from historically Black neighborhoods. Additionally, this data illuminates how federal rural investments may impact youth outmigration. By better understanding migration, steps can be taken to leverage shrink-smart or smart-growth strategies within the region. Explore more through the Census Bureau’s Migration Data searchable tools and maps.

Understand how cost burdens, such as housing and transportation, impact lowwage workers can be understood by calculating a living wage and exploring metrics related to income and living wage by racial and demographic groups.

A metric of economic inequality, the Gini coefficient summarizes the spread of income across the population, from equally shared to held by one or a few individuals.

Created by the Center for Economic Inclusion for the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, this guide draws connections between regional indicators and cultural communities represented in the region to understand economic inclusion and exclusion better.

California | Pop. 2,397,382 | 6 counties

In their 2020 CEDS, the four organizational CEDS partners identified impact metrics across four areas, including regional inclusive economic indicators, innovation, and business growth indicators, workforce indicators, and transportation infrastructure. Several of these metrics focus on equity, including metrics by race, gender, and the use of the Brookings Institution’s Metro Monitor inclusion and prosperity metrics.