Planning an Equity Initiative

Final
Equity Project Proposal
In last week’s Opportunities for Change activity, you began planning an equity initiative that is within your grasp to lead, and that you may wish to pursue once this course is complete. Review the ideas you sketched out. Then choose one of the ideas—or a new idea that has come out of that process—and create a proposal in the form of a professionally relevant deliverable in which you advocate for that policy’s implementation to a specific audience of decision makers.
Your deliverable may be a pitch deck, a request for pilot funding, a policy memo, a short presentation, or in another format that you believe will be persuasive for your audience. Regardless, it should:
• Introduce the equity challenge you intend to address.
• Define the ideal state you want to achieve.
• Explain your approach, including:
o Why you believe it will be effective.
o What evidence backs it up.
o How you will measure impact.
• Make a plan for stakeholder engagement and buy-in.
Review Prof. Arnold Jenkins’ Week II discussion of defining and engaging stakeholders.
• Persuade your audience:
o That the need is urgent.
o To provide some type of specific support to the effort.

Reflection
Doing the work:
Integral to the work of advancing equity is careful deliberation about where we can make a positive difference. To this end, you will be asked to complete 3 reflection activities throughout this course.
In this final activity, take some time to consider your own position—personal and professional—in advancing equity. In no more than half to a full page page, answer the following 3 questions:
• Who am I to be doing the work of advancing health equity?
• What are my top equity action items after I leave this class?
• Given my career goals, what will I be able to do to advance equity in 2 or 5 years that I may not be able to do now?