Together with the City of Providence, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, and Groundwork Providence we are working to bring a racial equity lens to the City's sustainability work.

This initiative, funded by the Funders' Network for Smart Growth with a match from the Rhode Island Foundation, began with the creation of a Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC). Our team, a combination of nonprofit experts, community leaders, and city officials, worked to identify key concerns, issues and needs and provide recommendations for a long-term process and structure for ensuring that all communities, regardless of heritage or race, are equitably represented by the Office of Sustainability.

​We also hosted two Undoing Racism trainings with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond as a first step in bring start the process of reaching a shared definition and analysis of personal and institutional racism, so that we can begin to dismantle it. 

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