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City of Louisville, CO
City of Springfield, OR
City of Auburn, WA
City of Bellevue, WA
Kitsap County, WA
City of Bothell, WA
Wasco County, OR
City of Bend, OR
City of Spokane, WA
City of Bozeman, MT
City of Fountain, CO
City of Everett, WA
Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience, HI
City of Englewood, CO
Thurston County, Washington
City of Kenmore, Washington
City of Forest Grove, Oregon
Lane Transit District, Oregon
City of Durango, Colorado
City of Golden, CO
Municipality of Anchorage, AK
City of Edgewater, CO
Jefferson County, CO
City of Bainbridge Island, WA
Pierce Transit, WA
City of Sequim, WA
City of Arvada, CO
Pima County Public Library, AZ
Partnership HealthPlan of California
Partnership HealthPlan of California’s (PHC) mission is to help our members, and the communities we serve, be healthy. Our organization is committed to …
San Mateo County, California
The County of San Mateo's Board of Supervisors, President Warren Slocum, has made developing and utilizing an equity lens inCounty decision making a key …
Los Angeles County, California
San Francisco Office of Children, Youth, and Families, California
Within the larger City and County of San Francisco, the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families has established anEquity Committee that actively …
City of Vallejo, California
The City of Vallejo is located in Solano County and has a population of approximately 121,000 residents. Vallejo is a rapidly changing, highly diverse community …
City of Aurora, Colorado
City of Northglenn, Colorado
City of Longmont, Colorado
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 …
Open Data, Water Quality and Equity: A Conversation with Greg Gearhart of the California Water Board
Although water supply issues have risen to the national stage in recent years with media coverage of the Flint crisis and #NODAPL movement, there remains little …
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 …
The People Behind the Movement: Anne Stuhldreher
The City of San Francisco is Working Towards the Elimination of Fines and Fees. A Conversation with The Financial Justice Project's Director, Anne …
California Department of Transportation
CA State Coastal Commission
In January 2018, the Coastal Commission joined the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)'s Capitol Cohort. During the first year, the Commission’s …
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 …
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 …
California Department of Environmental Protection
People Behind the Movement: Anh Thang Dao-Shah
Who are the people leading the movement for racial equity in government? We have interviewed practitioners across the country who are working to advance more …
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 …
California Department of Social Services
Starting in January of 2018, a team of CDSS staff has participated in the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) Capitol Cohort, an intensive training …
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 …
A financial justice victory that is spreading: San Francisco’s elimination of high pain/low gain criminal justice fees
By Anne Stuhldreher Thirty-three year old Jessica Salazar was making good progress. After she got out of jail in San Francisco in 2016, she went to treatment …
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 …
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 …
The People Behind The Movement: Katie Balderas
Who are the people leading the movement for racial equity in government? We have interviewed practitioners across the country who are working to advance more …
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 …
The People Behind the Movement: Analilia Garcia
Who are the people leading the movement for racial equity in government? We have interviewed practitioners across the country who are working to advance more …
The People Behind the Movement: Analilia Garcia
Who are the people leading the movement for racial equity in government? We have interviewed practitioners across the country who are working to advance more …
City of Boulder, Colorado
The People Behind the Movement: Jennifer Swift
Who are the people leading the movement for racial equity in government? We have interviewed practitioners across the country who are working to advance more …
City of San Mateo, California
San Joaquin Valley, California
Bay Area Regional Collaborative
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), California’s coastal zone management agency for the San Francisco Bay, has been …
The People Behind the Movement: Zoe Polk
Who are the people leading the movement for racial equity in government? We have interviewed practitioners across the country who are working to advance more …
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 …
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 …
Leslie Zeitler joins GARE as the California Project Manager
Leslie Zeitler joins as the GARE California Project Manager following a four-year stint with the California State University Bay Area Academy and more than a …
Amalia Morris joins GARE as the West Project Manager
Amalia Morris joins as the GARE West Project Manager following a storied career in public service, most recently with the City of Portland. There as a Health …
Salinas, California
According to the 2010 census, Salinas’ population is approximately 75 percent Latino (primarily Mexican/Mexican-American and Central American), 16 percent …
Libraries Take Action to Advance Racial Equity (Part 1 of 3)
By: GARE Libraries Interest Group ABOUT THIS SERIES: The GARE Libraries Interest works to develop the capacity of libraries to make racial equity a priority …
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 …
The Intersection of Black Lives Matter and Public Health: Moving from Conversation to Action in Addressing Health Disparities
By: Mehroz Baig Disease doesn’t discriminate. Disease also doesn’t operate in a vacuum. As public health researchers have spent more time looking at how …
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California is participating in the GARE Southern California cohort. …
Arcata, California
Arcata, California is participating in the GARE North Coast cohort. …
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 …
Racial Equity, Youth, Arts and Culture Call for Submissions (Alameda County region)
The Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) will be having our annual membership meeting in Oakland from the evening of May 2nd through late afternoon on …
Sacramento County, California
Sacramento County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,418,788. Its county seat is Sacramento, which has …
State of California Department of Public Health
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is dedicated to optimizing the health and well-being of the people in California. …
Santa Clara County, California, Public Health Department.
Overview Located in the southern San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara is home to many start-up and global technology companies and is one of the wealthiest …
San Francisco Planning Department, California
The San Francisco Planning Department plays a central role in guiding the growth and development in our City. The Department works with other City agencies and …
Merced County Department of Public Health, California
Merced County is located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in California. Merced County is a medium-sized, agriculture-based, …
Contra Costa County, California
Contra Costa County is a county located in the state of California in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,049,025. The county seat is …
California Department of Housing & Community Development
The Department of Housing & Community Development provides leadership, policies and programs to preserve and expand safe and affordable housing opportunities …
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 …
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 Diego Sustainability Department, California
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, 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 …
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 …
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 …
Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is a county in the U.S. state of California. With a population of more than ten million people, it is …
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 …
Culver City, California
Culver City, California is participating in the GARE Southern California cohort. …
City of Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city in Northern California on the east side of San Francisco Bay. It’s home to the University of California, Berkeley, birthplace of the 1960s …
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The City of Albuquerque will become an inclusive community where equitable success is the norm and race and ethnicity will no longer predict …
Talk and Q&A with Rinku Sen!
As a part of the 2016 California Advancing Racial Equity cohort, we hosted a conversation and Q&A with author, activist, and director of social justice …
[Webinar] If you missed the webinar on Public Utilities, Racial Equity, and Environmental Justice: Opportunities and Challenges on September 23, you can watch it on-line here.
If you missed the webinar on Public Utilities, Racial Equity, and Environmental Justice: Opportunities and Challenges on September 23, you can watch it on-line …