These resources have been compiled to help your company enact strategies from the Prosper CO Top 10 and work to create more equitable workplaces for everyone in Colorado.
Learn More About Housing
This video explains how local, federal, and state policies and laws contributed to housing segregation in the United States.
chronicles how the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 failed to stop racist, exploitative mortgage lending practices.
explains zoning changes in Minneapolis made to create affordable housing.
shares how small business owners, their employees, and customers in Sonoma County, CA are affected by housing costs and some policy solutions.
explains the impact of gentle density zoning in Portland.
Learn More About Small Business Support
highlights their research on the barriers that exist for small business owners and some strategies for entrepreneurs of color.
This podcast explains the newly created Entrepreneur Backed Asset (EBA) Fund and how it works to support entrepreneurs of colors and low-income communities.
provides resources, tools, and opportunities to help you advance equity in entrepreneurship.
This Forbes article shares how women entrepreneurs need more than PPP loans to recover from COVID and describes some of the disparities that exist for women in accessing capital.
is a timeline of the history behind how the wealth gap was created in the United States.
Learn More About Jobs Strategies
with videos highlighting organizations working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
by Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux
Second Chance Hiring
Skill-based Hiring
Looking at the Data
Colorado
provides a variety of publicly available data and mapping tools on different topics.
provides census level data and different tools to explore the data.
Education
Workforce
Housing
Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Awareness
The Top 10 Actions Proposed by Prosper CO are designed for organizations that have an openness and awareness of the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. We’ve compiled some general DEI resources to get your company started today:
- B:CIVIC Racial Equity Toolkit
- B:CIVIC Colorado Companies Uniting Against Racism CEO Pledge
- Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation’s Virtual Voices Resources for Further Learning
Read
by Meizhu Lui, Bárbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson
by Ibram X. Kendi
Listen
Watch
With Emmanuel Acho
with videos highlighting organizations working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Take Action
is a collective of CEOs committed to taking measurable action in advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The site also offers many more resources and ways to take action.
by Bruce Anderson provides assessment tools and guides to creating more welcoming places.
This Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) tool by the Consumer Health Foundation will help you do a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision.
is a transformational program, supported by The Kellogg Foundation, for advancing racial equity in companies. It offers the tools, knowledge and human-centered approaches for cultivating a workplace that attracts, develops, retains and promotes diverse talent.
These resources from Racial Equity Tools include the processes of organizational assessment, tools and examples of organizational assessments.