Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges, a white paper published by JER HR Group, includes six separate articles written by HR professionals that cover:
Inclusion
Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
The Nonprofit Association of Oregon's Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide helps you: 1) Consider your diversity; 2) Check your assumptions; 3) Ask about inclusion; 4) Apply it to your work; and 5) Take action by becoming a "Change Agent." The guide includes definitions of terms and offers key questions to consider when applying an equity and inclusion lens in the following: communications; engaging community, staff, and board;
Jeanne Tedrow, President and CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template - This resource from Bloomerang is designed for small nonprofits in the arts, however this policy can be used as a starting point and modified to meet your organization's needs.
See also: 6 Tips for Creating a Strong Diversity Statement
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.
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.