In PolicyLink’s newest brief from its Sustainable Communities series, Senior Associate Chris Schildt and Vice President for Research Victor Rubin examine anchor institutions and their role as place-based, socially oriented, economic engines. In this brief, they highlight several opportunities to leverage anchors for economic inclusion, including working with anchors to connect low-income communities and communities of color to jobs in growing innovation sectors; partnering with anchors on workforce training programs targeted at hard- to-employ populations; and participating in land use and transportation planning surrounding anchors. By engaging anchors, communities can foster equity and inclusion goals in regional economic development strategies.