Racial Wealth Divide

The Racial Wealth Divide (RWD) program deepens the understanding about the historical and contemporary barriers to wealth creation among communities of color. RWD lifts up the importance of wealth and wealth-building strategies among communities struggling to attain economic equality.

We develop and offer resources – such as workshops, publications, data, policy initiatives, and community empowerment strategies -- for community leaders, activists, organizations, media, and the public at large. Our goal is to help create a network of people and groups who want to abolish the racial wealth divide.

The Racial Wealth Divide program:

• Raises public awareness of the historical and contemporary barriers to economic equality and racial justice.
• Highlights asset-building strategies to eliminate systematic poverty and its disproportionate effect on people of color.
• Engages people in dialogue around wealth, not just income, as fundamental to ending economic racial inequality
• Initiates and shares resources around innovative strategies, public policies, communications work and grassroots organizing that fight against the growing racial economic divide.
• Brings together the grassroots, organizations and public officials to address local, state and federal policy to help eradicate poverty through asset-building strategies to create economic equality.

Read our Core Principles