This roadmap outlines NYC’s strategy to achieve digital equity by expanding broadband access, improving digital literacy, and fostering cross-agency coordination.
The Unemployment Insurance Equitable Access Toolkit contains common equity recommendations, promising practices, and insights, represented visually as a different floor of an agency office building, compiled in one interactive document.
In order to create for all, we have to employ processes that authentically engage misrepresented communities. People tend to think of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in terms of implicit bias workshops, employee resource groups, and hiring processes. These efforts are all important, but it is also necessary to focus on DEI as it relates to the creation of products, services, and content, and use a design-thinking approach to tackle these tricky issues.
This memo provides information to child and family service agencies on improving support for intersex children, adolescents, and their families through affirming practices, resources, and partnerships.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This webpage links to materials ASPE has prepared as it leads work on how federal agencies and programs can meaningfully and effectively engage people with lived experience.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
The Community-Driven Policies and Practices project engaged people experiencing poverty in power-building sessions to develop advocacy plans for economic justice. This report offers recommendations for nonprofits to engage people with lived experience of poverty in advocacy.
This OPRE brief provides strategies for enhancing cultural responsiveness in social service agencies, focusing on improving services for diverse communities through organizational change, staff development, and culturally informed program design.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Issued on February 2, 2023, this Executive Order provides guidance to combat discrimination and advance equal opportunity, including by redressing unfair disparities and removing barriers to government programs and services.
The document outlines revisions to OMB's SPD No. 15, which updates the standards for collecting and presenting federal race and ethnicity data, including the integration of race and ethnicity questions, the addition of a MENA category, and requirements for more detailed data collection.
This article examines how applying a Racial Equity Framework reveals systemic inequities in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program, offering insights into barriers faced by marginalized communities and potential solutions.
Initially created to inform federal staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this tip sheet provides key considerations for how organizations can identify potential diverse external partners, conduct outreach to them, and build and sustain productive relationships with them.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
