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Managing Unconscious Bias
Paradigm’s report, Managing Unconscious Bias: Strategies to Manage Bias & Build More Diverse, Inclusive Organizations details how unconscious bias affects organizations, limiting effective decision-making and standing in the way of diversity and inclusion efforts.
Sample Sexual Harassment Policy
Download and adapt this sample sexual harassment policy for your organization.
10 Keys to Hiring the Best Candidate While Reducing Biases & Building Partnerships
The most sincere commitment to inclusion and diversity may be derailed by biases that hiring managers don't realize they have. These ten steps help organizations identify unconscious biases and hire the best candidate.
Creating Respectful Workplaces in a #MeToo World
(May 1, 2018 webinar) #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns have changed how harassment allegations get reported and how organizations must respond. This webinar shares how nonprofits can be proactive in creating respectful, safe workplaces.
52 Free Professional Development Opportunities
The Bridgespan Group created this list of 52 way you can give your staff the gift of free professional development opportunities.
Walking The Talk: Are We Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap?
(March 21, 2018 webinar) Building Movement Project (BMP) co-director Frances Kunreuther discusses Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap, the first report in BMP’s Race to Lead series that explores why there are so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector.
Walking the Talk: Impact > Intention: Implicit Bias
(February 15, 2018 webinar) Ivan Canada and Michael Robinson of the National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad presented the second webinar in the Center's "Walking the Talk" series, Impact > Intention: Understanding Implicit Bias
Walking the Talk: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in North Carolina Nonprofits
(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.
Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
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.
Will We Get There Hire by Hire?
"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."
Race Matters, User Guide
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.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Definitions
OpenSource Leadership Strategies provides definitions for diversity, inclusion, and equity that reflect current thinking in the field.
Becoming an Anti-Racist White Ally: How a White Affinity Group Can Help
Navigating aspects of personal identity within American social institutions, such as schools and workplaces, is often challenging and complex.
Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity
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.
Sample Policy on Inclusive Events
A sample to adapt from and create your own policy to ensure your events are inclusive to diverse people and diverse needs.