When so many people have financial needs, how do you decide who gets help first? When COVID-19 devastated low-income and immigrant communities, MAF designed a Financial Equity Framework to answer that question—without relying on race or ethnicity. By focusing on income, financial strains, and structural barriers, MAF distributed emergency grants to more than 70,000 people across three funds. The result: 93% of recipients were people of color.
What’s inside
What’s inside
- The Financial Equity Framework: income, strains, and barriers
- Program insights from the LA Creatives Fund, California College Student Emergency Support Fund, and Immigrant Families Fund
- Why financial equity is a pathway to racial equity
- How community-rooted design reaches the people who need relief most
