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  • You Are What You Eat – Reclaiming my South Indian Heritage

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    Food can be a way of preserving culture and maintaining a connection to home in a foreign place, as…

  • Bringing Our Results Framework to Life: Building a Data Culture

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    In the first of this two-part series, we introduced the intersection of racial equity and results-focus in our work, and…

  • The Little-Known History of Chinese Restaurants

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    For Asian Pacific American Heritage month, I wanted to share a portion of my culture’s history. We need to…

  • Asking the Right Questions to Guide Investments in Closing Racial Wealth Gaps

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    In light of our ImpactAssets50 recognition, we will be sharing blog posts, originally posted at Impact Alpha, that highlight the unique…

  • A Different Philanthropic Approach: Seeding Hope in Regional Inclusive Growth

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    In my work, I think a lot about Monarch butterflies and how it takes them approximately five generations to…

  • Navigating Collective Impact through a Mayoral Transition

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    Lessons and resources from Albuquerque around sustaining cross-sector work through a mayoral transition.On Wednesday 5/15, Living Cities and Albuquerque,…

  • Adapt to Changing Needs, and Other Lessons from Living Cities’ Pay for Success Investments

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    In light of our ImpactAssets50 recognition, we will be sharing blog posts, originally posted at Impact Alpha, that highlight the unique…

  • Centering Community in Collective Impact

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    Through a decade of place-based work, we've gathered these tools and lessons for bringing community voice into the collective…

  • Apply a racial lens, and other lessons from Living Cities’ impact investments

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    Race-neutral efforts to boost economic opportunity have failed. Going forward, organizations across sectors must deliberately incorporate a racial lens…

  • Accelerating Government’s Knowledge of Undoing Racism

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    Once upon a time, city government support for local business was pretty straightforward. Cities could cut taxes, dole out…

  • Key Recommendations for Funders, Evaluators, and Technical Assistance Providers Who Support Racial Equity Work

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    In this blog post, Kien Lee, our evaluator outlines recommendations for folks who are supporting racial equity work.We are…

  • Beyond Counting Policies: Measuring Progress in Racial Equity

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    We are lifting up lessons we’ve learned from our Racial Equity Here cohort, five cities working to operationalize racial…

  • Getting Real About Results

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    Philanthropy holds more than $1.5 trillion in assets globally, more than the U.S. federal government’s entire budget in 2018. Despite…

  • From IPO to Oh No

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    “Such was life in the Golden Gate:Gold dusted all we drank and ate.And I was one of the children…

  • Living Cities’ Catalyst Impact Funds Named to ImpactAssets 50 for Eighth Consecutive Year

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    For the eighth year in a row, Living Cities’ Catalyst Family of Funds have been selected for the ImpactAssets…

  • Getting Ready for Racial Equity Work: Community Engagement

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    Community engagement is central to cities’ racial equity strategies. It's also where cities need a lot of support.We are…

  • Rewriting the Rules: Builders and Benefactors’ Influence on the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

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    To explore all the content from the Builders & Benefactors, scroll down to the end of this piece.Systems change…

  • Holding Staff Through Our Racial Equity Journey

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    In the past several years, Living Cities has made a shift toward centering racial equity in our internal operations…

  • How Albuquerque is Institutionalizing Racial Equity, One Contract at a Time

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    How the City is lowering barriers for business owners of color and local businesses to compete for city contracts,…

  • What Does Racial Equity & Inclusion Look Like for You?

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    Through our Racial Equity Here initiative, we learned that there are "spark plugs" everywhere, at every level, who are…