Longmont is a diverse, multicultural and welcoming city, one in which it's easy for people to make connections, do business, and to thrive as part of the …
City of Detroit, Michigan
In summer of 2019 the City of Detroit launched the city’s first Sustainability Plan, the Sustainability Action Agenda (SAA). Equity was centered throughout the …
City of Vancouver, Canada
The City of Vancouver is located on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh(Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁ / sel̓íl̓witulh …
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, California
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is a California independent special district providing bus and light railservice to the nearly 2 million …
City of College Park, Maryland
ABOUT THE CITY:The eighth largest city in Maryland, College Park’s population is 31,274 (2013). Comprising approximately six square miles, theCity is located …
Baltimore, Maryland
Town of Chapel Hill, NC
The Town of Chapel Hill’s mission is “learning, serving and working together to build a community where people thrive.” To create a place for everyone, the Town …
Multnomah County Drainage District
City of Lakewood, WA
City of Olympia, WA
The City of Olympia formed its Committee on Diversity & Equity in 2015. The City of Olympia Committee on Diversity advocates and promotes equality and …
Shasta County
Shasta County is a largely conservative, rural community where about 80 percent of the population is nonHispanic white. A closer look, however, reveals a truth …
King County Housing Authority
The King County Housing Authority is in the beginning stages of launching its racial equity initiative with primary objectives for year one being forming a core …
City of Waco
City of La Crosse
City of Gainesville, Florida
City of Spartanburg, SC
Orange County, North Carolina
Orange County North Carolina is committed to the prevention and elimination of bias and discrimination. In 1987 the Orange County Board of Commissioners …
City of Middleton, WI
The City of Middleton is a vibrant urban ring city on the west side of Madison, the state capital. From 2005-2013, Middleton was honored by Money Magazine and …
City of Lawrence, Kansas
The City of Lawrence has about 100,000 residents, and is 7% Latino, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Multi-racial, and 3% Native American. The City of Lawrence was …
City of Pittsburgh
The City of Pittsburgh's' plan to implement a racial equity tool kit into each city department is to launch a program within the government to train, collect …
City of Knoxville, TN
The City of Knoxville formed an equity committee, comprised of department heads and supervisors within City Government, to look across departments at equity …
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the 3rd-most populous city in North Carolina, the 68th-most populous city in the …
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Metro is unique among the nation’s transportation agencies. We serve as transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for one of the …
Puget Sound Regional Council
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) is the regional planning organization for the central Puget Sound region. The region comes together at PSRC to make …
City of Tukwila, WA
The City of Tukwila is very unique, with less than 20,000 people who reside in the city and more than 150,000 who visit the City every day to work, shop and …
Boulder County, CO
Inequities in social and political power have been a part of the formation, development, and current fabric of society in the United States. From the relocation …
Cook County, IL
Here is narrative regarding the work Offices Under the President has committed to beginning in 2019 as part of the Policy Roadmap: Five-Year Strategic Plan for …
Seattle Housing Authority
Seattle Housing Authority’s Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) is an agency-wide effort to educate its employees on the effects of racism and its impacts …
Vancouver, Washington
The City of Vancouver, Washington has approximately 1,000 of staff serving 184,000 residents in a community explicitly and implicitly established as a …
Alexandria, VA
Town of Carrboro, NC
The Town of Carrboro is located in Orange County, North Carolina. According to 2019 US Census estimates the town’s population is at 21,190, 29% of the …
City of Cedar Rapids, IA
The City of Cedar Rapids is in the emerging stages of our racial equity initiative. While the Police Department has been actively engaged in various equity …
California State Coastal Conservancy
The State Coastal Conservancy’s vision is of a beautiful, restored, and accessible coast for current and future generations of Californians. We act with others …
Lancaster, PA
The City of Lancaster is comprised of 60,000 residents – 40 percent Latino (largely from Puerto Rico), 17 percent African American, and the remaining non-Latino …
City of Hayward, California
Hayward is the Bay Area’s sixth largest municipality, and ranks among the most diverse in the entire country. Located in Alameda County, the city is home to a …
Milwaukee County
Milwaukee’s racial inequities have existed for as long as Milwaukee has had a measurable African American population. While every American metropolitan area …
Cosumnes Community Services District
The Cosumnes Community Services District (CSD) serves an estimated 190,680 south Sacramento County residents in a 157-square mile area. It's award-winning parks …
City of Elk Grove, California
Elk Grove is a high-quality suburban community of approximately 172,000 people, located 14 miles south of the California State Capitol in the State's affordable …
Monterey County, California
Monterey County is located on the Central Coast of California just south of the San Francisco Bay Area. The rich Salinas Valley extends through the heart of the …
City of Denver, Colorado
As a component of Mayor Michael B. Hancock’s Equity Platform, the Agency for Human Rights and Community Partnerships (HRCP) is launching a new Race and Social …
Dallas Independent School District
Ensuring racial, social and educational equity for all students is critical to the district’s mission to educate all students for success. As a large urban …
City of Boulder, Colorado
Spokane Regional Health Department
Spokane Regional Health District's (SRHD) new role will be the Chief Health Strategist for eliminating health inequities in our region. SRHD will work more …
South Bend, Indiana
In South Bend, Indiana, the mission of Human Capital and Inclusion is to facilitate a diverse and inclusive city collaborative in our workplace, workforce and …
Kansas City, MO
The City of Kansas City is looking to expand its internal racial equity work throughout its City departments. Taking the lead in this endeavor is the Kansas …
Fourth Judicial District Court, Hennepin County, MN
The Fourth Judicial District Court is the largest trial court in Minnesota with 62 judges, 15 referees, and 582 staff who process approximately 40% of all cases …
County of Santa Barbara, CA
Port of Portland, Oregon
Our social equity journey started around 2013 when many public agencies were considering how to provide services equitably. However, when stakeholder groups …
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
In September 2016, in response to the demonstrations and civil unrest following the Keith Lamont Scott and Justin Carr shootings, the County Manager announced …
Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Pittsburgh, PA
The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) is the City of Pittsburgh's economic development agency, committed to creating jobs, expanding the City's …
Visit St. Paul, St. Paul Minnesota
Visit Saint Paul is the official convention & visitors bureau for Minnesota's capital city of Saint Paul. The mission of the organization is to generate …
Durham County, North Carolina
Spanning almost 300 square miles, Durham County is located in the heart of the North Carolina Piedmont Region. Historically known as the "tobacco capital of the …
City of Charlotte, North Carolina
The City of Charlotte is engaged on several fronts to advance racial equity and opportunities for all. The City’s work aligns to broader community efforts …
Sonoma County, California
County of Sonoma is beginning stages of our efforts to develop a comprehensive racial equity initiative. We are excited to implement our commitment to advance …
City of Rochester, Minnesota
Rochester, Minnesota: Our community is stronger when we all do better. Racial equity is key to that strength. Rochester will be a community where everyone …
City of Richfield, Minnesota
The City of Richfield, Minnesota, population 36,557, is a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis and a historically residential community. The City benefits from its …
City of Minnetonka, Minnesota
Minnetonka strives to be a community where all people have a sense of belonging and potential for success. However, we recognize there is a history of …
City of New York, New York
Under the leadership of Mayor Bill de Blasio, equity has been central to the City’s governing approach. In 2015, the de Blasio Administration set out its …
San Jose, California
The City of San José is a city of 1 million residents, nearly 40% of whom were born in a foreign country. We are a city rooted in agriculture and now …
City of Des Moines, Iowa
The City of Des Moines is the capital city of Iowa, and is home to ethnically and racially diverse residents. Through PlanDSM, our Comprehensive Plan, we have …
Salinas, California
According to the 2010 census, Salinas’ population is approximately 75 percent Latino (primarily Mexican/Mexican-American and Central American), 16 percent …
Fort Collins CO
The City of Fort Collins is the fourth largest city in Colorado with a population of just over 160,000. To date, our racial equity initiatives have come in the …
Raleigh, North Carolina
The City of Raleigh, North Carolina, first partnered with GARE in 2016 to host racial equity trainings with city leadership staff and elected leaders. The …
Port of Seattle, Washington
The Port of Seattle is working to ensure that their policies, practices, and procedures recognize and address social injustice as it impacts the work of the …
Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville, located in Western North Carolina, is the eleventh largest city in the state with a population of 89,121 (U.S. Census est. July, 2016). …
Takoma Park, Maryland
Takoma Park joined GARE as a core member in May of 2017. The month before, City Council passed a resolution—which was introduced by Councilmember Jarrett …
Bay Area Air Quality Management District, California
The California Legislature created the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) in 1955, as the first regional air pollution control agency in …
Ontario, Canada
Ontario’s Anti-Racism Directorate was created in February 2016 by Premier Kathleen Wynne and works to address and prevent systemic racism in government policy, …
Brookline, Massachusetts
The Town of Brookline is committed to embracing the diversity of its community. It recognizes that individuals of color and other marginalized groups face …
St. Anthony, Minnesota
St. Anthony’s racial equity initiative was put in motion after an officer-involved shooting in July of 2016. The aftermath of the incident was shared on social …
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, Minnesota
Before building out an initiative agency-wide, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) racial equity work team began with several pilot projects, …
Solano County, California
The Solano County Advancing Race Equity Team originally began as a Public Health initiative. In 2017, Dr. Matyas, the Solano County Health Officer and Public …
Mankato, Minnesota
The City of Mankato dedicated resources to advancing racial equity beginning in 2016. Six city employees and the Executive Director of the Greater Mankato …
Bloomington, Minnesota
The City of Bloomington, MN. is a changing community. As local demographics continue to shift, the City acknowledges the importance of taking leadership in …
City of Pasadena, CA
District of Columbia, DC
City of Tucson, Arizona
Santa Monica, California
San Francisco, California
In 2016, San Francisco launched the Engineering for Equity program to ensure city services and resources are leveraged to achieve more equitable outcomes for …
San Antonio, Texas
The City of San Antonio’s Diversity and Inclusion Office (DIO) was launched in 2015 to foster an inclusive culture across the organization, ensure City …
Salt Lake City, UT
Sacramento, California
The Office of Diversity & Equity is committed to leading efforts to build a more representative, equitable, and inclusive City of Sacramento. MISSION: …
Richmond, Virginia
The City of Richmond joins GARE, building on Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s continuing emphasis on equity issues since taking office in December 2016. He has …
Richmond, California
Racial Equity for Richmond While Richmond believes that all people are created equal and racial makeup should not decide outcomes, we live in a society where …
Ramsey County, Minnesota
Ramsey County is a county located in Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 508,640, making it the second-most populous county in Minnesota. …
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A ‘majority-minority’ city, Philadelphia is racially and ethnically diverse, with African Americans comprising 44% of the population, followed by Whites at 35%, …
Oakland, California
In October 2016, the City of Oakland launched the Department of Race and Equity. The purpose of this new City of Oakland effort is to help people understand …
Northfield, Minnesota
The City of Northfield values all members of their community and recognizes the demographic makeup of their citizens will continue to change. Therefore, the …
Montgomery County, Maryland
We are at the beginning of our racial equity journey and are in the midst of developing Racial Equity legislation. After passing a resolution to implement a …
Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Michigan
The Department of Civil Rights investigates and resolves discrimination complaints and works to prevent discrimination through educational programs that promote …
Metro, Oregon
Metro is the regional government for the greater Portland, Oregon region. This region is nationally recognized for its strong economy, its livability and its …
Marin County, California
Equity, Economy, Environment and Education (the 4 E’s) have been a top priority for Marin County since 2007. GARE has helped the County accelerate their equity …
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is a member of the Racial Equity Here cohort. Racial Equity Here is a national movement of government leaders working to dismantle institutional …
Long Beach, California
New Health Department Director Mobilizes Data to Encourage Action on Social Determinants of Health In 2013, the Long Beach Department of Health and Human …
King County, Washington
For many, King County is a great place to live, learn, work and play. However, a closer look at the distribution of resources and wealth reveals that there are …
Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hennepin County has an enormous opportunity to address racial disparities and make strides toward racial equity for the local population. The county is home to …
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The City of Grand Rapids believes in and relies on racial equity values to eliminate structural racism to ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes in their …
City of Durham, North Carolina
Durham is the fifth largest City in the state of North Carolina, with a population of just over 230,000. The City of Durham (COD) operates under a City …
Dallas, Texas
Culver City, California
Culver City, California is participating in the GARE Southern California cohort. …