Model Transgender Employment Policy: Negotiating for Inclusive Workplaces (Transgender Law Center) clarifies the law and includes a sample policy that your organization can use as the basis for creating your own inclusive policy to ensure transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees feel safe and welcome in your workplace.
We extend our heartfelt support to the communities impacted by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. We'll continue to share resources for nonprofits and how to help.
Equity
Homelessness is a crisis in the United States, with rising needs and insufficient resources. Alongside these challenges, it can be hard for shelters to figure out how to make their shelters safe for transgender people.
- The Next Dimension of Equity: Including People with Disabilities as Part of Nonprofit Diversity Work
Disability is a social construct defining what is "normal" and what is not. For organizations already building an understanding of race, gender, and other social constructs and their consequences, 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.
During our time on part 2 of the webinar series, 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.
During our time, participants will explore 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.
By Gracie Johnson-Lopez, Diversity & HR Solutions
Join the Center and presenter Tema Okun to 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. We’ll examine how we are navigating white supremacy culture personally, in our nonprofits, and in our communities, and define our stake in dismantling white supremacy culture as we envision a transformative way of being and doing in the world.
Watch now!
The North Carolina Center for Nonprofits went through the process to select and contract with an expert practitioner on equity, diversity, and inclusion to facilitate our organization's internal equity work.
Staff who are not in leadership positions sometimes ask how they can initiate discussions about racial equity. Sometimes, organizations' leaders say they want to but don’t have any funds. You don’t have to be the boss or spend a lot of money to illustrate your commitment to beginning this important work. There are many free or low cost resources out there.
Jeanne Canina Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
Happy New Year – 2019!