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Our Work

Brookings’ Center for Community Uplift (CCU) is an initiative that seeks to increase economic security and well-being for people across racial and geographic lines. Through innovative public policy research, CCU aims to dismantle discrimination, racism, and exclusion. Rather than focus on racial disparity, CCU’s research explores how diversity and inclusion can yield better outcomes for all by building upon the assets and strengths in cities and neighborhoods.

Growth, prosperity, and well-being for all communities is not a zero-sum equation.

To live up to our meritocratic ideals, we need innovative, interdisciplinary approaches that move us closer to a United States worthy of its creed, and efforts to champion the assumption that every individual has value regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, or ability profile. Our research aims to empower cities and communities with innovative policy analyses and accessible data tools that can lead to greater economic security and improved well-being across the nation. 

Assets and Wealth

An array of data and analysis centered on the economic landscape and fiscal realities of diverse communities across the country. 

Business and entrepreneurship

Realizing the vast potential of underinvested employer-owned firms as community anchors, engines of growth, and hubs of employment. 

Climate and environment

Empirical tools and fact-based analysis to understand the distribution of climate risks, vulnerability, and resilience by race and place, and to inform the development of more effective climate adaptation policy. 

Cities and communities

Our foundational unit of analysis for advancing economic security, subjective well-being, and social cohesion and cooperation across place. 

Well-being

Innovative frameworks, novel insights, and fresh policy perspectives that go beyond the traditional socioeconomic metrics to chart our progress toward a more diverse, thriving society. 

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