Long-range Plan
Human resources policies and practices
Vision
To create human resources policies and practices for state government that proactively and consistently promote a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible workplace that values and uplifts employees of color.
Goals
- Ensure that diverse perspectives are included in the development of human resources policies, procedures, practices, and communication in order to foster inclusive practices across the enterprise.
- Ensure all job postings contain inclusive language, reflect the State’s values on recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce, and eliminate barriers to employment.
- Ensure all state agencies have the staffing capacity needed to advance diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.
Training and leadership development
Vision
To transform Minnesota into a place of racial justice where every state agency infuses anti-racism principles and practice through training and leadership development.
Goals
- Commit all Minnesota state agencies and leadership to work toward building a culture of anti-racism, allyship, and inclusion.
- Equip leadership with the knowledge and skills to use an equity lens in their decision-making to dismantle structural racism in their agencies.
- Secure funding and offer anti-racism training through Enterprise Talent and Development for all state agency employees.
Policy reviews and equity assessments
The State of Minnesota envisions a strategic policy review process that enables state agencies, partners, and communities to collaboratively incorporate equity assessments to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion values are embedded throughout policies and practices.
Goals
- Develop an equity impact statement for the State of Minnesota that each agency is responsible for implementing.
- Develop an enterprise equity analysis that supports the policy review process to promote inclusive policies, programs, and services for all
Procurement and grant making policies and practices
Vision
Grant making and procurement within state government are critical tools in ensuring the equitable delivery of government services and economic development. Government grants and contracting play a key role in determining what kinds of organizations receive funding and which businesses grow within our state. In order to support the administration's work toward achieving the One Minnesota goals, state agency procurement and grantmaking policies and practices must prioritize equity, transparency, and accessibility as part of each agency’s unique grantmaking and procurement responsibilities.
Goals
- Grantmaking – Ensure equitable and transparent competitive grantmaking processes and awards.
- Procurement – Examine and assess agency procurement processes and awards.
- Grantmaking – Expand and improve the grants administration oversight.
- Procurement – Expand and improve procurement technical outreach & assistance.
- Grantmaking – Create a framework for agency compliance and enforcement.
- Procurement – Create a framework for agency compliance and enforcement.
Equitable community engagement
Vision
The State of Minnesota will be a leader in community engagement by cultivating a community of practice within state government that will engage all communities through an equitable and inclusive lens. This practice will prioritize giving voice to communities, in both formal and informal power structures, and empowering those who have been historically marginalized.
Goals
- Consider input and information beyond qualitative data when identifying the needs of diverse cultural communities.
- Improve and uniformly apply data systems to collect and share disaggregated data in ways that are easily accessible and understood for the public to review.
- Ensure that the ways for the community to provide input are accessible.
Transparent accountability
Vision
The vision for transparent accountability is to first build credibility and trust internally—with state employees—then by extension the public, and to develop an understanding of and confidence in the work that the state is doing to address systemic racism. Thus, the vision is specifically for a state employee audience: State employees are aware of and can clearly communicate why it is important to end systemic racism (connected to the training and leadership development issue area) and how their individual work contributes to ending it in state government.
Goals
- Ensure more transparent communications internally and externally.
- Promote agency initiatives effectively.
