Inclusive Growth Requires Urgent Collaboration and Deliberate Patience
Although organizations and communities have been investing in inclusive growth efforts for years, Juan Olivarez describes in this article how these efforts are increasingly coming in to focus.
What Will We Learn From Our Collective Vulnerability?
Leslie Starsoneck shares her hope that our current, collective vulnerability may generate some urgency to better recognize and reduce existing inequities.
Equity Mapping Tools Combine the Power of Data and Narrative Change
The growing need for easy-to-use tools for organizing and interpreting that data is spurring new equity mapping strategies and data visualization tools.
Inclusión Económica en Grand Rapids, Mich.
Este informe presenta una revisión actualizada del progreso hacia la inclusión económica en el área de Grand Rapids, Mich.
Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids, Mich.
This report from our Community Data and Research Lab offers key economic data on several Grand Rapids, Mich. neighborhoods to support ongoing work to promote inclusive growth in our city.
Growing Justice and Community: The Grand Rapids Neighborhood Summit and Supporting Community in a Time of Crisis
Data analyst Rachel Borashko shares her overwhelmingly positive experience attending and leading a workshop at the 2020 Grand Rapids Neighborhood Summit.
To Tackle Complex Issues, Nonprofit Boards Must Embrace Their Own Complexity Through Diversity
Tamela Spicer considers how we might rethink the role of boards — to move beyond basic collaboration and share power, leadership, and decision making.
InDEEP Initiative Combines Environmental Impact With Racial Equity in Philanthropy
InDEEP helps grantmakers embed a justice and racial equity lens into their grantmaking to create a more diverse and inclusive environmental movement.
Determining the Future of #OurNeighborhoods
The #OurNeighborhoods anti-displacement toolkit was developed to provide grassroots organizers in Asian American and Pacific Islander neighborhoods with tools to support their work.
New Report Illustrates the Status of Latinx Communities in Kent County, Mich.
The Johnson Center’s Latinx Data Report (2019) brings inequities based on race/ethnicity in Kent County, Mich. to light through data. In this article, data analyst Rachel Borashko explores some of the key findings.