Many of the greatest challenges facing our communities cut across traditional issue areas. By forging coalitions of local housing, health, education, economic development, transportation, and other groups, PolicyLink believes together we can solve even our most formidable challenges. Nothing can rival the wisdom, innovation, and power that arises from these regional equity networks.

PolicyLink supports the following coalitions in their advocacy for policy change:

Action for Regional Equity! (Massachusetts)

Made up of 18 equity organizations, Action! for Regional Equity, addresses continuing disparities in affordable housing, transportation investment, and environmental justice in Massachusetts.

PolicyLink has provided ongoing strategic direction for ACTION!. See our work in Boston for more information. 

Coalition on Regional Equity (Sacramento, CA)

Coalition on Regional Equity (CORE), a project of the Sacramento Housing Alliance, advocates for regional change that is equitable and sustainable and promotes public health for low income people and communities of color. CORE advocates for communities in the Sacramento region to have fair access to jobs, schools, transportation, and affordable housing. To learn more about CORE, and their equity objectives, visit: www.equitycoalition.org

Equity Atlanta

Equity Atlanta was recently one of several sponsors of the Southern Sustainability Summit, sponsored by Emory University’s Office of University-Community Partnerships.  Equity Atlanta is a network focusing on identifying strategies and opportunities for balanced, inclusive, and fair growth in the metropolitan Atlanta region.   PolicyLink is providing ongoing assistance as they work to promote "triple bottom line" (environment, equity, economy) investments in low wealth communities, and encourage "people-focused" and "place-focused" strategies when implementing neighborhood transformation initiatives.   For more information, call 404.712.9893.

FACE (Hawaii)

Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE), a Gamaliel Foundation affiliate, is a faith-based grassroots organization in Hawaii founded in 1996 representing over 28,000 people on the island of Oahu who reflect the cultural and socio-economic diversity of the Hawaiian Islands. 

PolicyLink has assisted FACE with summits on health, economic development, housing, and other strategies to address poverty and injustice and promote action on policy in the public arena.   www.facehawaii.org

Rural Dynamics

Based in Great Falls, Montana, Rural Dynamics is a partnership of organizations and individuals across the northern plains region that provides programs and develops partnerships to help youth, individuals, and families achieve economic independence. 

Rural Dynamics incorporates strategies of credit counseling, EITC, IDA and other important steps out of poverty with bigger picture thinking like policy change, coalition building for change, communications, and networking. Rural Dynamics has brought critical information on the equity challenges in rural America to the PolicyLink regional equity summits. See  www.ruraldynamics.org for more information.

Washington Regional Equity Network (Washington, DC and surrounding counties)

The Washington Regional Equity Network (WREN) brings together non-profit organizations throughout Metropolitan Washington, DC, to create greater economic and social equity across the region. PolicyLink has provided assistance as members define and work towards a set of specific near-term initiatives that increases the commitment of regional leaders to equitable development and that places equitable development at the center of regional priorities.  Drawn from housing, social service, and environmental organizations from throughout the Metropolitan Washington area, members are building a network dedicated to promoting regional equitable development.