Clear Impact calls on government, non-profit and foundation leaders to join us in the Measurable Equity One Year Challenge.

By the end of the challenge, participants will have:

  • Created a plan to address an element of racial equity in your community based on local data
  • Selected performance measures to support the alignment of your efforts to achieve racial equity
  • Analyzed your internal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts for your organization
  • Created plans to improve your organization’s performance measures and DEI efforts
  • Begun to make a focus on racial equity part of your organization’s culture
  • Collaborated with community partners in the process

Each month, we will send out a prompt for consideration and action with your team.  Educational resources and video tutorials to support their completion will be sent on the first day of the month. All tasks can be completed at no cost to you or your organization.

To get started, all you will need is a copy of Trying Hard is Not Good Enough by Mark Friedman and to have downloaded your Community Racial Equity Scorecard from Clear Impact.  We also invite you to think about which community partners you would like to invite to join you on the journey.

The template for the Community Racial Equity Scorecard can be found here for the State of California as an example.

The data is pulled directly from the National Equity Atlas where we have data sets for 300 geographies including 100 cities, 150 regions and all 50 states. The National Equity Atlas is America’s most detailed report card on racial and economic equity. They equip movement leaders and policymakers with actionable data and strategies to advance racial equity and shared prosperity. The Atlas is produced by PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI).

To give you a flavor of the twelve-month challenge, here are the action steps for the first three months:

  • Month 1: Sign up for your free Clear Impact Scorecard account and install the Community Racial Equity Scorecard for your city, region or county. Review the disaggregated data with your team.  What do the trends, broken down by race, tell you? What observations can you make?  Where are the biggest disparities? Have a conversation with others in your office or community about their observations.
  • Month 2: Pick one of the nine indicators that you are most passionate about to have a Turn the Curve conversation with your team and community partners and document it in Clear Impact Scorecard. Consider sharing scorecard on social media and ask for feedback.  Each partner should commit to taking at least one action in the next two months. Reach out to at least one other organization to collaborate.
  • Month 3: Invite the same partners that helped with the turn the curve plan on the indicator you are most passionate about and establish 3-5 performance measures for each organization that speaks to their role. Consider collecting data by race on these performance measures if not doing so already.  Set up those measures and commit to tracking it in on a regular basis. Send your performance measures to Clear Impact for feedback at measurableequity@clearimpact.com.

After the Measurable Equity One Year Challenge commences, any organization can join at any time and will get the prompts and resources on a monthly basis for a year.

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