United Way of Greater Rochester - 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge

Join more than 100,000 community members and 460 organizations uniting to learn and grow together.

The 21-Day Equity Challenge is a powerful opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how inequity and racism affect our lives and our community.

You, along with thousands of others in the Greater Rochester region, commit to deepening your understanding of and willingness to confront racism, bias and other social inequities.

Community members can participate as individuals or as a part of a workplace, place of worship, professional association or more.
The Challenge is 100% FREE.
Daily topics include Understanding Bias, Levels of Racism, Housing Inequities, Building a Race Equity Culture and many more.
Challenges include links to recommended articles, videos, podcasts, reflections and more.

CHALLENGE DAILY CALENDAR

The 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge has been implemented in dozens of markets across the country. To localize the content and ensure it relates to our community, more than 50 community partners – including leaders in diversity, equity and inclusion; community leaders; and human service organizations – proposed, vetted, and selected the content that will be used in our regional Challenge. See below for the focus for each day of the Challenge. You can take the Challenge at any time by downloading the daily challenge below.

Are you leading the Challenge at your workplace? Visit the Equity Toolkit for articles to support conversations on race and equity, a sample email for your colleagues, a Challenge FAQ and more.

Pre-Challenge: What to Expect

Day 1: Race and Equity

Day 2: Understanding and Reflecting on Our Bias

Day 3: What is Privilege?

Day 4: Talking About Race is Challenging for Some. Here's Why.

Day 5: Levels of Racism

Day 6: Race and Discrimination

Day 7: Trauma to Healing

Day 8: Housing Inequity

Day 9: How Your Race Impacts your Health

Day 10: Environmental Justice

Day 11: Racial Wealth Gap

Day 12: Behind the Starting Line - Racialized Outcomes in Early Childhood

Day 13: Adverse Childhood Experiences

Day 14: Education & School-Aged Children

Day 15: Tale of Two Cities

Day 16: Opportunity

Day 17: Building a Race Equity Culture

Day 18: Being an Ally

Day 19: Tools for the Racial Equity Change Process

Day 20: A Racial Equity Lens

Day 21: Committed to Equity