The Racial Wealth Divide Initiative (RWDI) at Prosperity Now has worked with organizations and teams nationally to help them work through how to integrate racial economic and wealth equity into program design, development and implementation. This workshop with speakers Cat Goughnour, Associate Director, Racial Wealth Equity at Prosperity Now and Lillian Singh, Vice President, Racial Wealth Equity at Prosperity Now provides participants an interactive opportunity to collaboratively ideate solutions to complex, long-standing socioeconomic issues by building off of the foundation laid during the Community Revitalization Through a Racial Equity Lens session. The focus of this equitable development workshop is to turn racial economic and wealth equity theory into practice using field tested approaches and tools designed with, for and by those who feel the issues most acutely by integrating a combination of Right 2 Root System and RWDI methodologies and strategies into asset based community development.
Equitable Development and the Racial Wealth Divide
