Equity and Inclusion

To inform our work and guide our investments, we track the diversity of our workforce and our grantees.

The issues affecting children and families are complex, and resoures are limited. To help organizations make a difference where it's needed most, we promote the use of data disaggregated by race.

The Race for Results Index, launched in 2014, tracks racially disaggregated data on indicators of well-being for children throughout the United States.

To target the Foundation's influence and investments on reducing and removing systemic barriers for children and families, we develop the capacity of Foundation staff to reflect on race and ethnicity and advance strategies that connect communities to pathways toward opportunity.

To increase the use of strategies that make a difference, we share lessons from our work with partners, practitioners and other funders. Toward this end, we also support the dissemination and use of an equity and inclusion framework.

Recognizing child advocates must use many tools to move others to action, we provide ongoing opportunities for peer learning across the network, particularly for leadership development, communications and data development focused on equity and inclusion.

To improve the capacity of the social sector to set an equity- and inclusion-focused research agenda, we provide key investments and scholarship to expand the number of researchers and evaluators of color.

We support opportunities for communities of color affected by public systems to advocate for needed policy reforms and to be an equal voice in community development efforts.

We identify and advocate for policy reforms that support the best practices we uncover through our strategic consulting with public child welfare and juvenile justice systems.