Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Members of the Board of Directors of Livable City and Sunday Streets serve the entire City and County of San Francisco. This Board strives to enhance the quality of life and well-being of all members of every San Francisco community. This Board recognizes that structural inequities, including racism, ageism, ableism, and anti-LGBTQIA, in the United States, in California, and in San Francisco result in unacceptable injustices.

These injustices have divided racial and ethnic groups, and neighborhoods, between those that have good access and those that have poor access to wealth, education, employment, entrepreneurial opportunities, adequate safe and affordable housing, child care, health, healthcare, healthy food, clean air, public safety, open space, greenery, transportation, community amenities, cultural spaces and programming, low-stress environments, social cohesion and quality of life. This Board’s mission is to improve access to all of these things throughout the entire city to create a truly livable city.

Livable City’s Board of Directors and staff commit to prioritizing its efforts in neighborhoods of San Francisco with poor access to these things to help address racial and ethnic injustices and socioeconomic inequities. This Board is proud of the work the staff has done so far towards this priority, and it supports increasing staff’s resources devoted to working with groups and programs in Black-, Indigenous-, and Persons of Color- (BIPOC) communities and neighborhoods that have historically lacked investment, care, and service.

This prioritization of resources should be measurable in the organization’s budget and reportable as a higher proportion of the organization’s work efforts. As a result of this newly stated prioritization of Livable City’s work efforts, this Board invites BIPOC community members to join us on staff and on the Board of Directors.

Livable City and its programs respectfully acknowledge that we are in the traditional territory of the Yelamu, a local tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, who are still residing and stewarding the land colonially known as the San Francisco Peninsula today. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working in their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Community and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. 

In alignment with Livable City’s values and mission to promote land sustainability, justice, and people-led advocacy, we encourage the broader community to learn more about Native communities and actively take part in the rematriation, revitalization, and restoration efforts in solidarity.

Visit American Indian Cultural Center and American Indian Cultural District to learn more.

As part of our commitment to Open Access, the Livable City Board of Directors invites interested members of the public to join the July or October meetings of the Livable City Board of Directors via Zoom.  Meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month from 6 to 7:30 pm.  To receive a zoom invite to either of these meetings, please email your request to [email protected] or call 415 344 0489 at least one week in advance.  Members of the public are also welcome to request financial information about LC as required by San Francisco’s Administrative Code Section 12L.5 Public Access to Information by using the same contact information.