In 2017 the City of St. Louis, in partnership with Forward Through Ferguson and United Way of Greater St. Louis, was chosen as one of five US cities to create an Equity Indicators tool through our initiative, funded by The Rockefeller Foundation. The tool is built around the three themes identified by the Ferguson Commission: Youth at the Center, Opportunity to Thrive, and Justice for All. Within each theme are three topics, and within each topic are eight indicators—for a total of 72 indicators that can be monitored each year to track St. Louis’ progress toward racial equity. This report provides a first year of baseline static scores; following years will produce change scores for each level of data based on the difference in scores from one year to the next.

Oakland has a long history of activism around issues of inequity, and was chosen in 2017 among our first cohort of cities to develop local Equity Indicators through our initiative, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The purpose of this report is to develop a baseline quantitative framework that can be used by City staff and community members alike to better understand the impacts of race, measure inequities, and track changes in the disparities for different groups over time. This framework can then be used to guide and inform policies that address disparities.