In partnership with the Financial Health Network, the Citi Foundation is supporting the Financial Health Pulse, a groundbreaking research initiative about the financial health of Americans. Through this support, the Foundation will help provide ongoing, actionable data that help create solutions for an equitable economic recovery over the next three years.

This guide shares principles, approaches, and case studies to provide a roadmap to build and strengthen partnerships in communities to better understand and address the challenges businesses owned by people of color face before and during COVID. The guide was produced by cities in the Local Business and Job Growth cohort as part of the City Accelerator supported by the Citi Foundation