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- Action Plan 2
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Ten Principles for Building Resilience
A report from the Urban Land Institute explores ten economic, environmental, and social factors that contribute to resilience, including promoting equity, understanding vulnerabilities, and the cost of inaction.
Spectrum of Public Participation
From the International Association of Public Participation, frames community engagement across a spectrum of development stages that lead to true community ownership.
Roadmap to Repair
From the National League of Cities, a set of case studies, histories, and definitions to deepen city and community leaders’ efforts on acknowledging and supporting indigenous communities.
Ready for Equity in Workforce Development Tool
From Race Forward, this guide looks at how race inequities have served as a critical barrier in the workforce development field and provides models and solutions for making gains. This tool includes readiness assessment criteria to meet workforce development practitioners where they currently are.
Racial Equity Data Hub
From the Tableau Foundation, this equity-focused data community showcases disaggregated resources, maps, and data sources.
Qualitative Research Practice Guide
Code for America shares their qualitative research best practices in this guide, which includes considerations for ethics, interviews, and analyzing data.
Performance Metrics for Economic Recovery following Natural Disasters
This series of nine case studies, published by IEDC, identifies locally based economic recovery indicators, including social equity indicators.
Innovative Finance Playbook
Created with support from the Economic Development Administration, this playbook supports diverse founders and funders in understanding the breadth of resources, details of types of innovative models, and the best ways to support inclusive entrepreneurship.
Inclusive Processes to Advance Racial Equity in Housing Recovery
Part of a larger series, this set of strategies from PolicyLink looks at how to advance racial equity in housing by implementing COVID-19 recovery strategies.
Inclusive Communicaiton Resource Guide for Inclusive Economic Development
From the New Growth Innovation Network (NGIN), this guide provides definitions and resources for common concepts and topics within the inclusive economic development field.
Fostering Partnerships for Community Engagement
Researchers at the Urban Institute share best practices and guiding questions to identify and build relationships with partners in service to community engagement.
Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity Tools
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.
Equitable Development Principles and Scorecard
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.
Economic Mobility Guide
From Solutions Journalism, a guide for storytellers and journalists that provide guidance, examples, and ideas for discussing topics across economic mobility and poverty, including avoiding stereotypes and orienting stories towards solutions.
Do No Harm Guide
From the Urban Institute, this guide provides communications and design considerations for data storytelling regarding racial equity.
Digital Inclusion 101
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance has curated an introductory set of resources, videos, and approaches in their Digital Inclusion 101 primer.
Data Guide for Advancing Racial Equity through Federally Funded Public Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Projects
From the Urban Institute, this guide provides sample evaluation metrics for transportation access, including sources for demographic, mobility, economic, health and housing data. The guide aligns these metrics to the four core federal funding priorities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Data for an Inclusive Economic Recovery
In this report, the National Skills Coalition looks at metrics that address structural inequities for federal investments in workforce development, including enhanced outcome metrics and identifying and addressing workforce equity gaps.
Community Land Trust Technical Manual
From the Grounded Solutions Network, this manual provides guidance on launching and operating a Community Land Trust, including draft documentation.
WealthWork's Capital Framework
The WealthWorks’ capital framework identifies eight forms of capital: intellectual, financial, natural, cultural, built, political, individual, and social.