Equity is a part of all missions–here’s why
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
Examples of equity work – understanding the field
Models for how to best design equity explorations.
Five Elements of a Thriving Justice Ecosystem: Pursuing Deep Equity
Better understand “deep equity” and how to make a systematic shift toward it.
Management Assistant Group (MAG) through Non-Profit Quarterly (NPQ)
Systemic Change and Equity
Understand systems thinking and why it is an essential skill for systemic change related to equity.
The Equity-Centered Capacity Building Network (ECCBN)
Equity in the Center: Data Walk Slides
Explore Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) gaps in organizations and why these gaps persist.
Equity in the Center
Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture (Full Report)
Better understand the race equity cycle in the workplace and successful strategies for dismantling it.
Equity in the Center
Building a Race Equity Culture in the Social Center
A resource for organizations interested in adopting a Race Equity Culture. This is an abbreviated version of the full report.
Equity in the Center
Race to Lead
Learn about the racial leadership gap through data on the gap in race and leadership, and special reports that go in-depth on these issues.
Race to Lead
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
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There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
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To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
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Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
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Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
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Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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