A list of resources, tools, writings, and related media on equity and inclusion. A printable version of the below list can also be downloaded on the left of this page.

Updated August 2016

Resource Guide and Tools:

• Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity Resource Guide
• Racial Equity Tools
• The Business Case for Racial Equity - Altarum Institute and W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment Tool - From All Hands Raised and Coalition of Communities of Color – one example of how a collective impact partnership adapted organizational self-assessment tools for the CI context.
• Race Matters tool kit
• Harvard Implicit Bias Test - Set of online questions
• PolicyLink Equity Tools
• D5 Coalition Interactive Resource Guide
• Race Forward Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit
• PRE Resources - Reports and resources from the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)

Blog Posts:

• 5 Ways Collective Impact Partnerships can Advance Equity
• Head, Heart & Hands: A Framework for Taking Action on Racial Equity
• Bringing an Equity Lens to Collective Impact
• 3 Steps for Advancing Equity through Collective Impact
• Equity and Collective Impact series

Reports, Articles and Videos:

• Equity Matters in Collective Impact - Keynote and Panel Discussion from the 2015 Collective Impact Forum Convening in New Orleans
• Equity as the Soul of Collective Impact – Panel Discussion from the 2016 Collective Impact Forum Convening in Seattle
• Equity: The Soul of Collective Impact – by PolicyLink
• Moving the Race Conversation Forward - A report by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation that aims to reshape and reform the way we talk about race and racism in our country.
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack by Peggy McIntosh
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Race -The Power of an Illusion - Documentary series - California Newsreel 
• Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity  - Film -World Trust
• Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens by Grantcraft and Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity

Books:

• The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide by Meizhu and Barbara Robles
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol