Equitable Development Initiative Strategic Planning Services

The vendor is required to provide equitable development initiative (EDI) strategic plan by achieving the following objectives:
1. Engage internal and external stakeholders
•    Center the voices of community-based organizations and trusted leaders, particularly those embedded in communities at the highest risk of displacement.
•    Facilitate meaningful and culturally responsive engagement strategies with the EDI advisory board, city staff, and partners.
•    Resource external stakeholders for community-led discovery and visioning processes.
2. Center core pillars of the EDI strategic plan
•    Operationalize values such as equity, responsiveness, cultural connection, and community cocreation.
•    Ensure that foundational elements, including people, place, purpose, and prosperity are central to all strategies and outcomes.
3. Align existing resources with emerging needs
•    Map current initiatives, assets, and efforts across the city and assess their alignment with EDI's strategic direction.
•    Identify gaps and opportunities to expand EDI's operational capacity, resource alignment, and for community transformation.
4. Produce actionable and measurable outcomes
•    Ground the strategy in EDI's origins and long-standing commitments while incorporating new goals informed by prospective and current EDI grantees, EDI advisory board input, and our community of practice.
•    Build an adaptive roadmap that connects short and long-term goals to tangible community benefits.
•    Establish relevant program performance indicators.
•    Build strategic implementation tools
•    Assess and improve the city's internal capacity through the development and application of:
o    Policies: the overarching frameworks and principles that guide the EDI program.
o    Practices: how those policies are applied in the day-to-day implementation.
o    Protocols: clear, practical steps for carrying out specific tasks and procedures.
- Project phases and consultant responsibilities
1. Definition and discovery
•    Conduct a current-state assessment of EDI's organizational structure, program implementation to date, staffing capacity, and institutional resources.
•    Review and synthesize existing EDI frameworks, including the implementation plan, financial investment strategy, strategic funding model, equity drivers, and comprehensive plan alignment.
•    Facilitate interviews, listening sessions, or roundtables with office staff, EDI advisory board members, and key stakeholders to clarify direction, challenges, and goals.
•    Evaluate and recommend a strategic planning framework tailored to EDI that supports participatory visioning, measurable implementation, and resource alignment.
2. Community visioning and goal setting
•    Design and implement a co-creation process that centers and resources community-based organizations and residents impacted by displacement.
•    Support community-based organizations in leading engagement activities that surface shared values, desired outcomes, and a vision for equitable development.
•    Ensure process is culturally responsive and in-language; facilitate community-led and inclusive forums for participation across sectors and geographies.
•    Translate insights into a unifying vision, goals, and themes that reflect EDI's place-based and community-centered commitments.
3. Strategic plan development
•    Facilitate development of short and long-term strategies, with clear goals, and implementation activities tied to:
•    Addressing the systemic solutions to displacement
o    Advance economic mobility and opportunity
o    Prevent residential, commercial, and cultural displacement
o    Build on local cultural assets
o    Promote transportation mobility and connectivity
o    Develop healthy and safe neighborhoods
o    Enable equitable access to all neighborhoods
•    Co-create recommendations for internal capacity building, policy and protocol improvements, and city alignment strategies.
•    Design a clear and resourced implementation roadmap with timelines, milestones, and responsible parties.
4. Performance and accountability tools
•    Develop performance metrics, monitoring tools, and an accountability framework to track implementation progress.
•    Recommend feedback loops for continuous learning, adaptation, and shared evaluation informed by prospective and current EDI grantees, EDI advisory board input, and our community of practice.
•    Identify gaps between aspirations and resourcing, and offer strategies to align implementation to fiscal and program-wide capacity.
5. Finalization and transition to implementation
•    Produce a fully articulated 5-year strategic plan that includes the refined EDI mission, vision, and values.
•    Present plan drafts for review, facilitate revisions, and deliver a final version ready for adoption.
•    Provide a summary implementation plan with actions, partnerships, and roll-out guidance to support the transition into practice.
•    Offer recommendations for how EDI can continue to center community leadership in future iterations of the plan.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Pre-Submittal Conference #1 (Non-Mandatory) Date: October 21, 2025
- Pre-Submittal Conference #2 Date: October 30, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 10, 2025