DRC’s commitment to anti-racism has affected the development and implementation of its program work in many ways. Program work is now linked to undoing institutional racism. DRC has worked to get local governments to recognize Martin Luther King Day and has advocated and organized for fair distribution of government services in communities of color. All DRC publications take into account how racism affects a particular issue, from understanding and changing a county budget to the effects of institutional racism on the distribution of government resources. “For everything we do,” says Ms. Natter,, “we try to make the connection to how racism manifests itself in that area and advise how to work against it.”