Table 1.

Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles

1. Explicitly address issues of social and economic injustice and structural racism.

2. Employ a community development approach in which residents have equal power in determining the coalition or collaborative’s agenda and resource allocation.

3. Employ community organizing as an intentional strategy and as part of the process. Work to build resident leadership and power.

4. Focus on policy, systems, and structural change.

5. Build on the extensive community-engaged scholarship and research over the last four decades that shows what works, acknowledges its complexity, and evaluates it appropriately.

6. Build core functions for the collaborative based on equity and justice that provide basic facilitating structures and build member ownership and leadership.