Statement On Racial Equity & Justice

June 2, 2020

The Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) stands in solidarity with the peaceful protesters across Ohio, the country, and the world who demand racial justice, equity, and inclusion.  GOPC works every day to provide tools and policies that support Ohio’s disinvested neighborhoods.

As an organization, we do not say enough that these neighborhoods are disproportionately neighborhoods of color. The composition and opportunities available in Ohio’s most distressed neighborhoods are the result of decades of public policy and private action; there are systemic reasons that these neighborhoods are often black and brown. 

We commit to do a better job acknowledging how racism has created and maintained these conditions.  And we commit to do our part in dismantling these structures through our continued statewide research and advocacy, and our business practices.

Black Lives Matter.