Resource Library

(January 11, 2024 webinar) Being a Kind Boss isn’t about playing nice or not hurting feelings. Kindness is “having, showing or proceeding from benevolence.” Nice is a feeling. Kindness is an action. Kindness is collaborating with others to make the working world less awful. In this webinar, author and creative agency owner Dawn Crawford will share entertaining stories of leadership gone wrong and tips and inspiration to put kindness into practice.

This toolkit will help you create workable plans for increasing anti-racist actions and practices in the workplace and community spaces.

Advice on finding entry points into conversations about race, racism, and racial justice

Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations

Collection of toolkits for improving your nonprofit's workplace culture around mental health and wellbeing.

(August 30, 2022 webinar) Storytelling is the most powerful tool we have as changemakers. By sharing our authentic personal stories and those of the community we serve (with permission, of course), we can stand out as we stand up for our mission. We attract and inspire an audience that is ready to roll up their sleeves and help us make shifts happen at our nonprofit organization. In this session, we will explore the dynamics of storytelling and create each member of your team’s individual 'elevator pitch' – also known as a verbal business card.

Five assessments that focus on governance, mission-driven programs, partnerships, communication, and advocacy.

Overview of diversity quotas, affirmative action, and pitfalls to avoid.

This communications toolkit provides tips, tactics and examples of values-based messaging for short- and long-term campaigns and strategies to shift public narratives and motivate change.

A comprehensive guide from the Center for Urban and Racial Equity sharing their approach from five years of working with nonprofits to build transformational racial equity.

Explores the concept of neurodiversity and how employers might leverage or accommodate individuals with that attribute.

Three inclusion guides for the organization, colleagues, and the transgender professional.

Whether you're a user, builder, or funder, you have a responsibility to ensure the equitable use of technology.

(November 4, 2021 presentation) This session will offer a fact-based, nonpartisan framing of the conditions that perpetuate extreme economic inequality in the United States, using language and concepts that are accessible for everyone.  In order to become conduits for social change, nonprofits must be trauma informed and rooted in an understanding of social movements. Organizations of any size can orient services, outreach, and advocacy efforts in ways that foster healing relationships among individuals and communities, while developing skills and capacity for civic engagement. This session offers tangible ways nonprofits can shift their operations and resources, however limited, toward these goals.

(November 4, 2021 presentation) This revolutionary conversation about how to achieve health equity organizationally identifies more than a dozen strategies forward-thinking leaders can introduce and implement to rethink their employer-sponsored health benefits strategy and plan.