An enabling environment for co-governance is a set of conditions and a context that either helps or hinders successful partnerships between community and government to drive racial justice and deepen multiracial democracy. Race Forward’s Place, Policy, and Power (3P) Department presents, “Strengthening the Environment for Racial Justice: The Journey to Sacramento’s Racial Equity Resolution”.

This case study offers insights into establishing shared power structures for deep collaboration and the conditions in the city of Sacramento that informed this approach.

Early successes in these joint community-government efforts provide clear examples of the importance of analyzing and strengthening the environment for sharing power and building partnership to fuel community-level impacts. Despite some setbacks, Sacramento is now in a much stronger place to deliver on racial equity to transform their city.

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