Racial Equity

Where conventional financial systems perpetuate structural racism, community investment has the potential to play a powerful role in advancing racial equity in and across communities—but only if we actively work to center equity in all aspects of the system.

How We Got Here

Centuries of structural racism have shaped financial systems and markets to channel resources to communities that already have them and further disinvest communities that don’t. To overcome that legacy, community residents and their aspirations must drive local community investment systems, and community investment practitioners must incorporate racial equity lenses and attend to the racial equity implications in every choice we make. 

Making Change Happen

Recent events—COVID-19’s racial disparities, ongoing police violence, surging white nationalism—signal the urgency of uprooting racism across American society. By tackling the biases baked into the community investment system and reshaping it to prioritize racial equity, practitioners can transform communities and the lives of their residents. 

Racial Equity Resources

We offer tools, research, and ideas to help those working for racial justice in systems, organizations, and communities.

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Transformational Change

Helping emerging community leaders develop key management and leadership skills.

Past Programs

Fulcrum Fellowship

The Fulcrum Fellowship equips rising executives in the philanthropic, nonprofit, public, and private sectors to lead transformational change.

Field Leaders

Meet some of the people working to advance racial equity through community and economic development. 

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