Blogs

Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves Volume 1: Updates on our new program strategy

Back in October 2022, we gave a sneak preview into our updated programmatic direction. ...

Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves Volume 2: Notes on our new look and feel

GARE adopted a new look and feel to reflect this new chapter of the network’s identity. ...

Meet the New GARE Senior Director!

Periods of transition present opportunities to engage in self-assessment, forge new pathways forward, ...

GARE Members Come Together to Celebrate Wins of 2023

In December, GARE network members, staff, and partner organizations gathered online for the 2023 GARE ...

Community, Reflection, and Inspiration at the GARE 2023 Membership Meeting

Over 600 GARE racial equity practitioners gathered online from November 1-2, 2023, for Governing for ...

Racial Equity Practitioners Gather for GARE’s Inaugural Leadership Summit

Leading GARE Racial Equity Practitioners Gather in Pine Mountain, Georgia In September 2023, we gathered ...

Building a Bigger We: GARE Leverages Transformative Partnerships to Build Institutional Change at the State Level

As Mitch Smith recently wrote in the New York Times, “America’s state capitals are as polarized as they ...

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RULING AN ATTACK ON EQUAL PROTECTION, FURTHER UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2023 Contact: press@spotlightpr.org or jridley@raceforward.org ...

California Racial Equity Practitioners Strengthen Ties at GARE Statewide Convening

From June 13-15, 2023, in Oakland, CA, GARE hosted Governing for All: The California Statewide ...

GARE Launches New Tools and a Monthly Peer-to-Peer Networking Group Dedicated to Housing and Land Justice

April marked the 55th anniversary of the last major piece of Civil Rights era legislation, the Fair Housing ...

GARE, PolicyLink, and Communities First Launch the 2023 Transformative Justice Infrastructure Fellowship for Public Sector Leaders

GARE, PolicyLink , the Communities First Infrastructure Alliance , are excited to announce the 2023 ...

Root Solutions to Public Safety: A Journey to Montgomery, Alabama

Written by: Alex Frank, GARE’s Director of Root Solutions to Public Safety “History, despite its wrenching ...

Working Together: Advancing Racial Equity Across Government

On Wednesday, November 17, 2022, GARE, its programmatic partner State of Equity , and the Federal Initiative ...

Our Foundational Work: GARE Staff Welcome New Team Members and Offer a Sneak Peek into Our Network’s Practitioner-led Future

Our network comes together to listen, learn, apply, and innovate how we advance racial equity through ...

GARE and Race Forward Decry SCOTUS Overturn of Roe v. Wade

Decision will adversely affect women of color and members of LGBTQ+ communities. Contact: ...

Esri Launches New Solution to Help Communities Assess Social Equity

Collaboration with GARE and Five Jurisdictions Produces Mapping Tool for Government In communities ...

California State Government Teams Complete Racial Equity Learning Program

Written by Lianne Dillon Launched in 2018, the Capitol Collaborative on Race and Equity (CCORE) represents ...

California Cabinet Secretaries Pass Racial Equity Resolution

California Cabinet Secretaries Pass Racial Equity Resolution Action is the first of its kind by ...

JUSTICE NOW – RACE FORWARD STATEMENT

Race Forward Statement June 2, 2020 Dear colleagues and comrades: In the days since four Minneapolis ...
 
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Milwaukee County Passes Ordinance on Racial Equity!

The Milwaukee County government has been committed to understanding the link between race, government ...
 
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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 ...

Bringing Equity into the Library: A Conversation with Christy Mulligan, DEI Coordinator for the Hennepin County Library

Libraries are often considered one of the foremost democratic institutions in America . However, the ...

The People Behind the Movement: Alison Beason

Spatial Data and Decision-Making with Alison Beason, Senior Policy Analyst for the City of Tacoma ...

City of Asheville earns GIS award for racial equity mapping project!

The City of Asheville was recently awarded the North Carolina G. Herbert Stout Award for Visionary Use ...

City of Gainesville passes motion for institutionally committing to racial equity

This City of Gainesville recently passed a motion committing to racial equity which included the following ...

Waco City Council takes aim at racial disparities, gentrification

The Waco City Council is putting the issue of racial equity on the front burner after holding a four-hour ...