The Corporate Racial Equity Alliance is committed to championing transparency and making decisions equitably. Our approach to standards governance follows our Guiding Principles.
The Alliance is led by its founders, PolicyLink, FSG, and JUST Capital. Each organization leverages its respective strengths and assets to carry out the mission of the Alliance, with PolicyLink serving as the Secretariat. As the Secretariat, PolicyLink leads strategy, manages administrative and financial matters, oversees day-to-day activities, and for material matters, makes the final decision if consensus cannot be reached.
On October 31st, 2024, we closed our latest public comment period, in which we sought feedback to our draft Governance Charter among other topics. We will publish a synthesis of the feedback and a record of comments received on our website no later than the launch of the final standards in 2025.
Advisory Committee
The Alliance will establish a cross-sector advisory committee in 2025 to support the ongoing governance of the standards. The Advisory Committee will provide essential expertise and input into the implementation approaches we adopt, ecosystem partnerships we establish, and the ongoing evolution of the standards.
Ensuring that the composition of the Advisory Committee is diverse across multiple dimensions and includes those with lived experience of marginalization and systemic barriers as well as the next generation of business leaders and workers is central to our aims and ongoing success.
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Grievance Mechanism and Dispute Resolution
We invite questions or concerns about the Alliance, the standards, their governance, or our planned implementation approaches.
We will confirm receipt of all outreach within 30 days and aim to address any good faith concerns within a reasonable period thereafter. The Alliance will communicate promptly should more time be needed to address any questions or concerns. We reserve the right, however, to refrain from responding to any outreach that the Alliance determines is not made in good faith or is disrespectful, defamatory, or diminishes the humanity of any person or group of people.
