Living Cities
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The Little-Known History of Chinese Restaurants - Living Cities
WEBMay 17, 2019 · The group then rotated status every year in order to bring their families to the U.S. Between 1910 and 1920, the number of Chinese restaurants in New York City nearly quadrupled, and then more than doubled again over the next 10 years. As I look back and reflect on my people’s history in the United States for …
Careers - Living Cities
WEBLiving Cities is committed to fostering transformational relationships across sectors to connect those who are willing to do the work of closing racial wealth gaps. We are driven by a set of core values, which we believe are fundamental to our organizational success: collaboration, innovation, leadership, impact, and racial equity and inclusion.
About - Living Cities
WEBAbout Us Living Cities is a collaborative of leading philanthropic foundations and financial institutions committed to closing the racial income and wealth gap so that all people in U.S. cities can live economically sustainable and abundant lives.. We promote equitable and inclusive wealth building by addressing barriers to capital investment, shared knowledge, and the collective action of its ...
Our People - Living Cities
WEBLiving Cities. Throughout our history, the commitment of our member institutions has been a unique and defining asset of Living Cities. Through the collaborative, we strive to disrupt the status quo by prioritizing long-term, systemic fixes that recognize structural racism as the root cause of the issues we tackle.
Breaking Barriers to Business - Living Cities
WEBOverview How we Start, Grow, and Create Jobs. Breaking Barriers to Business, or B3, is a multi-year project seeking to transform systemic barriers found in the relationship between local government business-serving agencies (BSA) and community-based business-serving organizations (BSO) into systemic pathways that serve business owners of color with the knowledge and financial capital they need ...
Collective Organizing Toward Narrative Change: An Interactive …
WEBApr 22, 2021 · The Narrative Change Working Group—a collaborative network of Living Cities member institutions, foundations, financial institutions and other partner organizations—was established in 2018 to explore and understand how systemic racism manifested in dominant narratives in the private sector. …
Business Starts and Growth - Living Cities
WEBOverview The State of BIPOC Business Ownership. Entrepreneurship, and the development of healthy businesses, is a mechanism for promoting economic growth, job creation and wealth building for people of color and an opportunity for local government leaders to build an environment that enables communities of color …
500 Years of the Racial Wealth Gap: A Timeline - Living Cities
WEBApr 14, 2020 · As a result, racial disparities exist across all indicators of success. Median Black household income in 2017 was $38,183 while the median white household income was $61,363—a gap of $23,180. Data from the Urban Institute showed that, in 2016, median white household wealth was $171,000 compared to median Black household wealth of …
The Integration Initiative: Final Report - Living Cities
WEBJan 7, 2020 · The Integration Initiative: Final Report. January 7, 2020. In January 2010, Living Cities launched The Integration Initiative (TII) to support “bold, promising approaches that have the potential to transform the lives of low-income people and the communities in which they live.”. In 2014, Living Cities launched phase two of The Integration ...
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