February 19, 2021

A Leader’s Guide: Finding and Keeping Your Next Chief Diversity Officer

A guide on how to think about hiring a Chief Diversity Officer, what questions to ask yourself and your organization, and what are the different types of roles your CDO can play. Includes data from companies that have implemented this.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity

This article presents an invitation and roadmap to help companies understand and address the intended and unintended consequences of all their products, policies, and practices on people of color, and by extension, our economy and democracy. The blueprint provides actions in three key domains: 1) inside the company, 2) within the communities where the companies are headquartered and conduct business, and 3) at the broader societal level.
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

Hiring Toolkit: Building the Team You Want

A toolkit with tips and tools for conducting a hiring process with an anti-oppression lens. This resource is specific to worker cooperatives, but most of the content is applicable to a wide range of workplaces.
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.