Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

As a nonprofit organization, it's important to connect with people. Investing 30 minutes on two or three days a week, your nonprofit can substantially raise your organization's visibility, build your brand, and use LinkedIn's capabilities to leverage existing connections to reach a wider audience of not only the people you know, but also the people they know. Presented by Michelle Weathersby, CEO & Executive Leadership/Career Coach & Consultant of LENS Consulting Firm, this webinar will explore:

The Nonprofit Association of Oregon's Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide helps you: 1) Consider your diversity; 2) Check your assumptions; 3) Ask about inclusion; 4) Apply it to your work; and 5) Take action by becoming a "Change Agent." The guide includes definitions of terms and offers key questions to consider when applying an equity and inclusion lens in the following: communications; engaging community, staff, and board;

Lee Warren, Executive Director, Organic Growers School

Organic Growers School (OGS) came into 2019 with some big questions. Our goal was to engage in a strategic planning process, not with the intention to reinvent our mission, vision, or values, but to figure out the next steps in the evolution of the organization. We had many inquiries but not many answers.

Jeanne Tedrow, President and CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

One of Stanford Social Innovation Review's podcasts series called Inside Social Innovation is composed of "talks and lectures by leaders of social change." Topics range from social entrepreneurship to leveraging technology and digital literacy in the social sector to equity and inclusion.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template - This resource from Bloomerang is designed for small nonprofits in the arts, however this policy can be used as a starting point and modified to meet your organization's needs.

See also: 6 Tips for Creating a Strong Diversity Statement

Model Transgender Employment Policy: Negotiating for Inclusive Workplaces (Transgender Law Center) clarifies the law and includes a sample policy that your organization can use as the basis for creating your own inclusive policy to ensure transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees feel safe and welcome in your workplace.

Homelessness is a crisis in the United States, with rising needs and insufficient resources. Alongside these challenges, it can be hard for shelters to figure out how to make their shelters safe for transgender people.

Disability is a social construct defining what is "normal" and what is not. For organizations already building an understanding of race, gender, and other social constructs and their consequences, this webinar offers a framework to help leaders consider disability in equity planning and identify ways their nonprofit can better include people with disabilities on its staff and board, and among its target population.

By Jada Monica Drew, Social Designs