Community leaders and their funders want to increase opportunities for families and help create better neighborhoods, cities and regions.  They are finding success in using the lens of structural racism to examine the causes of chronic gaps in income, wealth, education, housing, employment and criminal justice.  With this analysis, leaders can address the fundamental conditions that lead to racially disparate outcomes.  Structural racism “emphasizes the powerful impact of inter-institutional dynamics, institutional resource inequities, and historical legacies on racial inequality today. Because Americans often take individual people to be the main vehicles of racism, we fail to appreciate the work done by racially inequitable structures.  But, in fact, all complex societies feature institutional arrangements that help to create and distribute the society’s benefits, burdens and interests…  In confronting racism we must similarly count for multiple, intersecting and often mutually  reinforcing disadvantages, and develop corresponding response strategies."