Practice Tools and Resources:
The following frameworks, research, and resources - developed by external organizations, BIPOC experts, and others - were highlighted by practitioners during our v0 engagement phase. This also includes expertise that project teams and practitioners referenced.
Getting Beyond Green: A Baseline of Equity Approaches in Sustainable Building Standards (NAACP)
Our aim as the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization is to be a beacon of inspiration and transformation in centering equity in the sustainable building sector. In doing so, we can catalyze the building of a bigger, broader base for the sustainable building movement towards the betterment of the building users, communities, the economy, and the planet.
PHEAL Principles
Addressing public health inequities has never been more pressing than now. Planners, architects, designers, urbanists, placemakers, civil engineers, artists, culture-bearers, arts and culture practitioners, landscape architects, real estate developers, public health professionals, and public servants must embrace and advance an agenda for health equity.
Building to Heal: A Framework for Holistic Community Development (Enterprise Community Partners)
This introduction to The Healing-Centered Community Development Framework provides the context for why a healing-centered approach is essential to successful community development and defines core principles and strategies for centering healing.