Leadership Development

February 19, 2021

Bay Area Housing Internship Program

This one-year, paid internship program trains low-income college students of color to jumpstart careers in affordable housing development and project management – by pairing each intern with an NPH member host agency, a leading nonprofit affordable housing developer.
February 19, 2021

National League of Cities’ Race, Equity, and Leadership (REAL) Initiative

NLC’s Race, Equity, And Leadership (REAL) initiative serves to strengthen local leaders’ knowledge and capacity to eliminate racial disparities, heal racial divisions, and build more equitable communities. Through training and online resources, REAL helps NLC members build safe places where people from all racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds thrive socially, economically, academically and physically.
February 19, 2021

How Employee Resource Groups Drive Diversity

Diversity and inclusion can regress during an economic crisis, but corporations have a resource to help prevent that from happening: ERGs. Affinity groups�for women, people of color, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and more�can reinforce a company’s leadership. This panel explores ways ERGs could help preserve and advance years of effort toward inclusive workplaces. (Run time 1:32:08)
February 19, 2021

Give More (and Better) Feedback with CSAW

Studies have shown that vague feedback disproportionately affects women, so this tool can also increase gender equity among your staff. The CSAW framework (“Connect,” “Share,” “Ask,” “Wrap-Up” method of giving feeback allows you to tackle issues head-on and encourages more specific and concrete feedback. This framework is helpful to advance equity in ensuring that you are connecting through shared values with employees and creating a concrete plan of action for remedying challenges.