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How to Begin Equity Work in Your Organization with Little or No Money
You don’t have to be the boss or spend a lot of money to illustrate your commitment to beginning race equity work. Here are conversation starters and activites you can do with your staff and board for little or no money.
Power Moves: Philanthropy Assessment Guide for Equity and Justice
A guide and worksheets to determine if your strategies and practices leverage the full power of your foundation for equity and justice.
Out and Equal in the Workplace
Small resource library by Out and Equal Workplace Advocates
Guidelines for Hosting Effective Multi-lingual Meetings
A checklist of considerations when planning a multi- or bilingual meeting.
Succession Planning for [NOT] the CEO
Eureka moments often occur during our consulting engagements when nonprofit teams realize the CEO is one of many individuals whose departure could cause ‘transition trauma.’ Read on for inspiration for establishing a non-CEO succession planning process.
Succession Planning for Nonprofits - Managing Leadership Transitions
A slew of good resources to support your succession planning work.
The Importance of Linking Leadership Succession, Strategy, and Governance
Leaders are often in denial about when their effectiveness is losing its edge and when is the appropriate time to leave. This article offers an overview of the challenges and three common dilemmas in leadership succession. (Nonprofit Quarterly)
Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
This publication reports on the findings of a study conducted by the Building Movement Project on generational difference in leadership in small- and mid-sized social change organizations. (The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Diversity Appreciation, Training, and Management
An in-depth look at diversity and how best you can adapt.
Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
This report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes a model of executive management transition.
An African American Looks at Board Diversity
Few nonprofits are as successful as they’d like to be with racial diversity on their boards. This resource provides a thought-provoking perspective from an African American who has served on many nonprofit boards.
Walking the Talk: Moving from Ally to Accomplice: Supporting LGBTQIA Members of Your Organization
(June 13, 2018 webinar) Learn how to effectively include members of the LGBTQIA community and best practices for creating an affirming culture for LGBTQIA colleagues and community members.
Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Step By Step: A Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (TSNE MissionWorks) provides a seven-phase, step-by-step approach to achieving diversity and inclusiveness in the nonprofit workplace.
8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits
There’s a type of racism in the workplace many of us have personally witnessed, perpetrated, or experienced: tokenism. The Nonprofit Revolution explores 8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits.
Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
Equity in the Center’s publication, Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture, provides insights, tactics, and practices social sector organizations can and have used to measurably shift organizational culture, operationalize equity, and move from a dominant organizational culture to a Race Equity Culture.