If Philadelphia were a school kid, it’d be in big trouble with its parents.

The leaders who responded to Generocity’s second Regional Just Recovery Self-Assessment in December and January offered almost uniformly terrible ratings, relative to expectations, in response to questions in three categories: public health, community engagement and economic resiliency, with racial equity embedded across all the questions.

Those who received the self-assessment tool included the same 100 leaders from large social service providers and community-based organizations, civic and government leaders, and private sector representatives who received the first self-assessment survey in October. The response rate from these leaders was disappointing — less than a quarter of the original cohort returned their surveys in January — but those who did had a lot to say.

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