Inspired in part by the words of the late pioneering visionary Nikki Giovanni, this panel examines and reflects on what is required for liberatory collective impact at a critical inflection point for collaboratives truly interested in racial and social justice. In today’s context, how do we put our most transformative plans into action? 
Through the Results-Based Impact Framework, and its related methodology that utilizes a results-driven process, and grounds our analysis in qualitative, quantitative, and BIPOC-lived experiential data, high capacity organizations are able to identify, socialize, implement and accelerate impact in the face of strong headwinds. Regardless of where they start, and over the long term, collaboratives are succeeding in internalizing a racial equity-focused results process and orienting to the culture change required to do meaningful work.

In the context of recent and persistent historical assaults on advances in addressing racial and ethnic inequities, this practitioner-oriented panel discussion provides practical tools for the practice of addressing disparities and disproportionality in multiple contexts. Featuring dialogue with practitioners from conservative-leaning jurisdictions in Tennessee and California, we problematize traditional approaches to results, equity, and impact, engaging in topics as varied as arts and culture, cross-racial coalition building, alliances within conservative jurisdictions, and design of qualitative data systems through a results-based framework.