Equity is a part of every mission

Explore how your mission connects to equity, racial justice and other fights—whether or not it is explicitly stated.

Deep Equity Practitioners: Building Capacity for Liberation

Explore “what” is race equity work, “how” change happens and “how” we know when organizational transformation is being done well and contributes to movement building.

Equity in the Center

Project Linked Fate

Project Linked Fate collaborates with academics, foundations, and non-profit leaders to create and support learning spaces to examine past and present mechanisms of othering, imagine practices and policies to interrupt those mechanisms, and envision a democratic society that serves all communities and the individuals in them.

Project Linked Fate

How to Push DEI Conversations Out of the Comfort Zone

Learn how to push the boundaries of your comfort zones and competencies for truly transformative and freeing changes.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

So, you think race, equity and inclusion aren’t relevant to your mission?

A cheeky take on why equity, inclusion and diversity are a part of every organization’s mission—whether or not it’s apparent.

Nonprofit AF

Brass Tacks: Telling the Truth About Equity with Kerrien Suarez

Explore how the Executive Director of Equity in the Center keeps equity at the center of their mission.

Up With Community

The Curb-Cut Effect

Exploring the direct and indirect benefits to society at-large of increasing equity for all communities.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DEI Approach is No Longer Relevant: Operationalizing Racial Justice in Non-Profit Organizations by Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates

Start or deepen your organization’s work to align with racial equity by increasing your confidence to take risks, honoring your justice warrior ancestors by acting with integrity and through solidarity, remembering that racial justice work is done in right relationship and accountability to communities.

Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates

SWITCH PATHWAYS

Pathway 1 | Preparing for Change

Pathway 2 | Awareness: Aligning Intention and Action

Pathway 3 | Analysis: Power

Pathway 4 | Action: Working on Structures

Pathway 5 | Action: Improving Team Health

Pathway 6 | Accountability: Testing Ideas

Pathway 7 | UWC Resources

GROW COMMUNITY

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