Resource Library

Where to find IRS announcements for mileage rates each year.

(December 13, 2017 webinar) Anita Brown-Graham, ncIMPACT at UNC School of Government; Ivan Canada, NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad; and Jeanne Tedrow, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits will share in this recorded webinar. They’ll share goals of the initiative, discuss distinctions between the terms, analyze NC demographic data around race, age, and needs related to equity and inclusion, and answer questions.

Those who care about the health of the charitable sector—those who believe, as we do, that strong nonprofit leaders are the best predictors of organizational success—can draw both warning and inspiration from the results of this national study produced in partnership by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, and Idealist.org.

"We haven’t confronted this elephant in the room: If few people of color want to lead your staff or serve on your board despite the fact that you work in and with communities of color, it is entirely likely that people of color don’t see your organization as a place through which to make social change."

Tools to help organizations understand how racism operates to create disparities that are often maintained inadvertently through policies and practices that contain barriers to opportunity. Provides examples of how to close equity gaps by using strategies determined through an intentional focus on race.

OpenSource Leadership Strategies provides definitions for diversity, inclusion, and equity that reflect current thinking in the field.

Navigating aspects of personal identity within American social institutions, such as schools and workplaces, is often challenging and complex.

This article discusses tools for tackling EDI challenges: creating a container with intentional group norms, exploring accumulated racial advantages and disadvantages, reflecting on white culture, and caucusing by racial identity.

A sample to adapt from and create your own policy to ensure your events are inclusive to diverse people and diverse needs.

This report examines how the 21% of nonprofit staff who self-identified as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) responded to this survey, which was primarily about race.

Short assessments to gauge personal cultural competency between personnel and in programs for nonprofit clients.

Exercises and Handouts

Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: A Guide to Selected Programs provides an in-depth review and comparison of ten race equity training approaches. The Guide is intended to help community leaders, organizations, policy makers, funders and other stakeholders select and support approaches that best suit their needs and goals. It describes why programs do what they do (theory of practice) and how they believe their approaches will produce positive results. Specifically, it examines how programs understand the sources and dynamics of racial and ethnic oppression and what principles and methods they use to address the problems. In addition, it assesses organizational capacities and the connection between programs’ activities and intended outcomes.

The Nonprofit Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Assessment is designed to help nonprofit organizations assess their capacity and progress in demonstrating best practices in diversity, inclusion and equity. The underlying assumption of this assessment is that all organizations will move back and forth along a continuum of best practices. The framework and the descriptions in the grid were developed based on the input of nonprofit experts and practitioners, literature regarding best practices, and the collective experience of the framing partners
lifecycle and journey towards building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive and equitable
organization. Furthermore, the results of the exercise should be interpreted in the context of the
organization’s stage of development, level of capacity, geographic region, mission area, and
constituency.

BoardSource's report, Leading with Intent, analyzes board composition and governance from every aspect.