Atlanta

Equity Atlanta is a network of organizations forwarding an agenda for equity and shared prosperity in the 21 county Atlanta region

BOSTON

In communities across Massachusetts, daily experience is making the once abstract notion of regional inequity painfully clear. Families of diverse income levels struggle to secure affordable housing, maintain decent employment, and feel secure about the environmental safety of their neighborhoods

CALIFORNIA

PolicyLink is engaged in a wide variety of policy campaigns, partnerships, and research projects throughout the state of California

RICHMOND

A jurisdiction's general plan (or comprehensive plan) is an important statement of its intentions for the future: how and where to grow, what to preserve, and what values undergird the community's vision for itself and the future.

San Diego, Market Creek

PolicyLink is engaged in a partnership with the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation to synthesize key learnings regarding the Market Creek Plaza development; and to educate funders, practitioners, and policymakers about the policy implications of this groundbreaking project.

Unincorporated Communities

Throughout the United States, millions of people live outside of central cities on pockets of unincorporated land. Predominantly African-American and Latino, and frequently low-income, these communities range from remote but concentrated settlements of industrial or agricultural laborers, to neighborhoods at the fringes of cities and towns that have been excluded from city borders.

Kansas City, MO

The Green Impact Zone is a targeted green revitalization effort meant to concentrate and coordinate American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) services and funds within a 150-block, mostly poor, economically distressed area of Kansas City, MO.

Minnesota

PolicyLink is partnering with ISAIAH, a faith-based state advocacy network, and the Organizing Apprenticeship Project (OAP), a state leader in racial, social and cultural justice, and other advocates in Minnesota to shape the implementation of federal transportation resources and programs included in the recently enacted $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Mississipi

Jackson, Mississippi is confronting widespread job loss, falling tax revenues, massive state and city government budget cuts, and loss of traditional revenue sources as home sales decline and consumers slash their spending in response to the deepening recession.

New Orleans, Gulf Coast

In the months after Katrina, PolicyLink opened an office in New Orleans and began working with community leaders to shape a more equitable recovery.

North Carolina

With its continued dependence on shrinking manufacturing jobs, Greensboro's economy has been hard hit by our nation's economic crisis.

Older Industrial Cities

For all Americans to prosper, they must first have access to opportunity. Through living-wage jobs, viable housing choices, effective public transportation, good schools, safe and clean communities, and access to healthy food—all individuals can begin to secure economic and social success.

Past Placed-Base Work

Growth patterns in the United States have left low-income residents with substandard housing, high concentrations of poverty, racial segregation, poor schools, high housing costs, limited access to jobs, and a crumbling infrastructure.