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Humans@Work How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges
This white paper includes six articles written by HR professionals that explore how to successfully tackle HR challenges.
How to Manage When Things Are Not Okay (And Haven't Been for Centuries)
This article shares The Management Center's best thinking around how to support your staff at a time when things are not okay (and haven't been for long time).
Anti-Racism Resource Guide
This Anti-Racism Resource Guide is a working document, consistently being updated to provide a growing list of resources and tools to help dismantle racism.
Leveraging LinkedIn as HR Professionals
(May 18, 2020 webinar) This webinar will explore the power of networking through LinkedIn, using your LinkedIn business page as a jobs board, and attracting strong candidates for your organization.
NAO Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide
The NAO Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide is an interactive tool to help you learn about equity and inclusion and how to apply these insights to your work.
Stanford Social Innovation Review - Podcast
The SSIR's podcast series called "Inside Social Innovation" is compiled from "talks and lectures by leaders of social change."
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template
This resource defines Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, reviews the importance of having an EDI policy in place, and includes a sample template.
Model Transgender Employment Policy
A model policy and guide that clarifies the law and provides sample policies to help your company welcome and include transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees.
Transitioning Our Shelters
Alongside the challenges of rising needs and insufficient resources for homeless shelters, it can be hard for shelters to figure out how to make their shelters safe for transgender people. This guide provides minor but important policy changes that can make shelters safer for all people.
The Next Dimension of Equity: Including People with Disabilities as Part of Nonprofit Diversity Work
(August 21, 2019 webinar) 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.
Guide to Family Forward Workplaces
The Guide to Family Forward Workplaces provides tools for employers of all sizes with practical tips for selecting and implementing 16 family-friendly workplace practices.
What's White Got to Do With It? Disrupting Race-Based Inequities in Well-Intentioned Nonprofits: Part 2
(June 5, 2019 webinar) Participants will have the opportunity to take a "deeper dive" in exploring more intimately the extent to which white dominant cultural tendencies have been internalized and operationalized within organizations and the role that gatekeepers have in perpetuating or disrupting patterns of exclusionary and non-inclusive practices and policies.
What's White Got to Do With It? Disrupting Race-Based Inequities in Well-Intentioned Nonprofits: Part 1
(May 22, 2019 webinar) Courtney Parker West shares the concept of whiteness by way of the socio-political and historical contexts by which whiteness, and therefore the white dominant culture by which most nonprofits operate, was constructed and has been upheld through policy, legal decisions, and Eurocentric cultural values.
Walking the Talk: White Supremacy Culture - Treachery and Transformation
(April 10, 2019 webinar) Tema Okun shares how we can ground ourselves in a shared understanding of what white supremacy culture is and how it manifests in our organizations so we are better positioned to challenge it.
Selecting an Equity Consultant
A sample selection process and scoring matrix that nonprofits can adapt to identify and select an equity consultant for their organizations.