Organizational Culture

February 19, 2021

Culture Amp

Tools for evaluating your organization in terms of how you are meeting your diversity and inclusion goals and how you can do better. This tool gives you a benchmark for where your organization is and compares against peers in the industry
February 19, 2021

Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture

Guide for building a Race Equity Culture – one that is focused on proactive counteraction of race inequities inside and outside of an organization. Building a Race Equity Culture is the foundational work when organizations seek to advance race equity; it creates the conditions that help us to adopt anti-racist mindsets and actions as individuals, and to center race equity in our life and in our work.
February 19, 2021

Managing Unconscious Bias

Strategies for managing unconscious bias when it comes to attracting, hiring, developing, and retaining diverse staff
February 19, 2021

Anti-Oppressive Facilitation for Democratic Process: Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone

Tips for improving your facilitation skills to make sure that everyone is heard, power is distributed, meetings achieve their desired goals, and time is used efficiently and justly.
February 19, 2021

Racial Equity Toolkit

A comprehensive toolkit on how to apply a racial equity lens to housing organizations, with tools that assist with education on racial equity, creating a plan for change, and implementation
February 19, 2021

Pyramid of White Supremacy

Demonstrating that white supremacy goes much deeper than mass murder, violence, and discrimination but also appears more often in the normalization of otherbehaviors such as indifference to racial inequity, minimization, and veiled racism
February 19, 2021

The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture

Describing traits of white supremacy culture that become embedded into institutions and organizations and the antidotes to dismantle them. Examples of traits that appear often in nonprofit: “A sense of urgency,” “Quantity over quality,” “Paternalism,” and “Power-Hoarding.”
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.
February 19, 2021

Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive, and Anti-Racist Organization: Tools for Liberation Packet

A toolkit with various pieces for developing an anti-racist organization including definitions, “Qualities of an Anti-Racist Ally,” and “Qualities of Highly Inclusive Organizations”
February 19, 2021

Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook

This website is a web-based version of a workbook designed originally to support the Dismantling Racism workshop offered by Dismantling Racism Works, a training collaborative that is not offering workshops or consulting support at this time. Includes tools such as understanding White Supremacy Culture, Racism Defined, Stages of Racial Equity, and History.
February 19, 2021

The Learning Zone Model

Understanding everyone’s unique comfort zone, learning/’stretch’ zone, and panic zone, which are helpful for effective training on difficult topics such as race. Many partners and consultants reference this model as helpful for engaging in racial equity work and understanding where you can realistically bring everyone along.
February 19, 2021

Diversity and Inclusion Councils

Presentation on how best to form and establish Diversity and Inclusion Councils at your company or organization. Provides case studies of how other companies have approached it and things you should consider for a successful council.