

Learnings and Insights About Racial Equity, Policy, and Data: The Building Equitable Pathways Blog Series
November 19, 2021
Building Equitable Pathways is a coalition working to improve equity in postsecondary and career pathways so that all young people have equal opportunity for future success. Together, 14 innovative intermediary organizations, JFF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Walton Family Foundation aim to ensure that, at every stage and key transition point in their lives, Black and Latinx youth and young people experiencing poverty can access the knowledge, skills development opportunities, support, and relationships necessary to thrive in education and the workforce.
Learnings and Insights About Racial Equity, Policy, and Data: The Building Equitable Pathways Blog Series shares provocations, insights, and lessons from the partners in the initiative. Both Building Equitable Pathways and this blog series explore three distinct and deeply connected areas through which intermediaries can create systems change:
- Promoting racial equity in pathways
- Advocating for policy solutions
- Cultivating strong data and infrastructure practices
We are excited to share the challenges we face, the questions we are grappling with, and the solutions we create through Building Equitable Pathways over the next two years. We hope you will learn with us as we seek to increase our individual and collective capacity to change our education and workforce systems for the better.
Learn more about Building Equitable Pathways at www.jff.org/equitablepathways.
Read the Blogs


Centering People in Our Data Practices
November 19, 2021
Three Ways Intermediaries Can Keep Equity at the Center of Their Policy Work
January 21, 2022
Identifying the ‘Fruit and Root’ of Systemic Racial Inequity
February 9, 2022
To Use Data as an Equity Lever, Translate, Then Advocate
May 20, 2022
Putting ‘Fruit and Root’ Analysis of Racism to Work
June 22, 2022
Telling the Right Stories: How Narratives Can Change Community College
July 26, 2022
Building A New Foundation for Equitable Policymaking
July 26, 2022
Mind the Gap: Investing in Data Capacity
December 14, 2022
The Missing Ingredient in Policymaking and Advocacy: Young People
February 14, 2023
Intermediaries Must Disrupt Institutional Racism From the Inside Out
April 20, 2023