After the tragic killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, protests have swept across the United States. This has led to a wide-ranging discussion about how to reform ...

JK:We’re celebrating your new role as President of Youthprise! Can you tell us a bit about Youthprise? MP: I’ll start by sharing Youthprise’s mission, which is to increase equity with and for ...

I work in circles where we talk a lot about “people of color” (POC). We discuss what POC need to thrive economically, how to support POC with resources, and of course we interrogate how racism affects ...

The second City Accelerator cohort on Inclusive Procurement invited ten cities–Boston, Cleveland, El Paso, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and South Bend–to ...

At Living Cities, we believe collective action is the framework through which we can achieve change at a systems level. Most recently, we decided to approach narrative change through a collective ...

In 2017, we released an internal learning report titled “ What Does it Take to Embed a Racial Equity & Inclusion Lens? ” that captures themes from internal interviews, a field scan, and learnings from ...

Where do our values and beliefs come from? Answering this question is important for people committed to social change, because these values and beliefs drive our work. Over time, the millions of ...

The latest jobs report shows that our national recovery from the COVID pandemic and its economic impact will be slow and painful for millions of Americans, particularly those who did not have the ...

Here’s one thing Living Cities has learned about investing to improve the economic lives of the poor: Poverty and racism are inextricably linked. Investing in economic justice means investing in ...

Beyond 5 is a Business Survivability Study for New Majority Entrepreneurs produced by 1863 Ventures with funding from Living Cities, Surdna Foundation, Wells Fargo, M&T Bank, Capital One and ...

Explore the interactive timeline! Choose “Download this document” to download the citations and sources, with links to further reading. The experiment of America is over two centuries old. Throughout ...

As we pass the one-year mark of implementing Truist Foundation’s multi-year, signature small business initiative, Where It Starts: Breaking Barriers to Business, I find myself reflecting on our ...