At La Piana Consulting, our work provides us with an opportunity to help the people and organizations driving positive social change to be their best, to use their resources wisely, to create equitable workplaces where colleagues can thrive, and, as a result of their organizational health and strategic alignment, to make measurable progress on the critical missions we all rely upon them to advance. In order to be effective in this role, we have developed a racial equity framework. What this means is that, while we are far from perfect, we strive toward justice. We recognize that race and racism do not exist in a vacuum; identities are intersectional and overlapping. Applying a racial equity frame to our work also informs our efforts to counter other forms of discrimination. We work extensively with organizations committed to racial justice, including most of the major civil rights groups (e.g., ACLU, Race Forward, NAACP, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and UnidosUS). We are currently in our second year of an initiative with the Ford Foundation, helping 63 of their racial justice grantees to manage rapid growth in the wake of the 2020 uprisings. We use the SR negotiation process to help clients model their DEI values so when a partnership is ready to launch, culture change has already begun.