Board development
Decolonize Your Board
This article offers nine strategies to liberate board culture and provides a tool that boards may use to reflect on their own behavior and strengthen their culture.
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Nonprofit Roles & Responsibilities
Better understand when roles and responsibilities of executive directors and board chairs are separate and/or shared.
Joan Garry Consulting
Beyond Political Correctness: Building a Diverse Board
Discover three strategies that may help board members better embrace diversity and create more inclusive environments.
Recruiting a Stronger Board: A BoardSource Toolkit
Diversity in Nonprofit Board Governance
Explore the importance of diversity in nonprofit board governance, as well as a research paper on the role that racial diversity plays in nonprofit governance.
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities
If Your Board Looked Like Your Community
In this article, staff and board members weigh in on common hurdles related to board diversity and how to overcome them.
Josephine Ramirez
A Fresh Look at Diversity and Boards
Engage your board to develop their thinking and planning around board diversity.
Blue Avocado
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Access curated resources that illustrate effective thinking and practical advice for boards on the topics of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
BoardSource
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
GROW COMMUNITY
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