Capital for the New Majority: Reflections from HBCU@SXSW [PODCAST]
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onWhat does it take to disrupt barriers to access to capital for people of color and shift who ultimately…
What is a Community Data Portal and What Difference Can it Make?
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onA few years ago, I described the need our community of Louisville, KY had for a “third place” for data. At…
Putting Entrepreneurs of Color in the Center: What Ecosystems and City Government Can Do
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onLiving Cities has been working with eight municipalities that are trying new approaches to address the fragmentation and barriers…
Impact vs. Intent: Initial Lessons from Third Sector’s Equity Journey
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onWhat does a low-income community look like? What systems and programs, while often well-intentioned, serve as the foot of…
Decolonizing Lunch Part I: Interrogating our Org Culture Around Food
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onThis two-part series explores how we are living our value of racial equity and inclusion by interrogating and shifting…
Decolonizing Lunch Part II: Putting Our Values into Action
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onIn the first piece of this two-part series, we explored the relationship between our racial equity practice and our…
Skills Development and Talent Placement: Reflections from HBCU@SXSW [PODCAST]
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onWhat does it take for companies to operationalize racial equity? At Opportunity Hub's HBCU@SXSW we chatted with leaders in…
What We’re Reading: A Terrible Thing to Waste, by Harriet A. Washington
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onTen, twenty, one hundred times a day, I think about the end times. They are coming and I am…
Building the Field: Reflections on Undoing Racism
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onWe cannot address racial disparities without being clear about the historical, social and political meaning of race in America.…
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Capital for the New Majority with Monique Woodard [VIDEO]
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onThis video features Monique Woodard, a venture capital investor who is a contributor to our Builders and Benefactors series. Monique…
A Day in a Life: Imagining a Country without Racial Gaps [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onAt Living Cities, we are actively working to reimagine a world without racial wealth and income gaps. This second…
Through the Eyes of Wakanda: On Screen Lessons for Off Screen Impact
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onJoin us throughout the upcoming weeks as we feature the stories and work of Builders and Benefactors, a network of…
Normalizing Deep Conversations about Race through Coaching
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onThis blog is part of a series that will tell the story of our organizational shift toward centering racial…
Reflections on Leading Racial Equity Work in Collective Impact
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onOneCranston’s story has many similarities to the stories of those leading racial equity and inclusion work in many cities…
Lessons Learned from Regional Inclusive Economic Growth
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onWe spoke with Living Cities members, partners and practitioners in the field to gather the critical lessons from past…
Building Local Startup Ecosystems That Work for Entrepreneurs of Color
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onIn light of our ImpactAssets50 recognition, we are sharing blog posts, originally posted at Impact Alpha, that highlight the unique values…
Building OneCranston through Collective Impact
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onAs a Working Cities Challenge participant, Cranston, Rhode Island is working to undo the city's longstanding racial divides. Two…
What Does Racial Equity & Inclusion Look Like for the Public Sector?
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onWhere do we go from here? That is the question. There was a training, or a book, or a…
Finding the Roots of Our Histories Towards Collective Liberation
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Blog onThis blog is part of a series of blogs highlighting Living Cities staff's various cultures in honor of Asian…
