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Your Strategic Plan Has Power. Update it Using These 4 Steps.
Even in uncertain times, your strategic plan still has power and purpose. Update it using these four steps.
Let’s Get REAL: The Series Every Executive Leader Needs Now
REAL (Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders) podcast series addresses the equity challenges that executive leaders face in a politically toxic time.
What We Can Learn From Corporations Killing their DEI Initiatives
Many corporations are quickly ditching their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives. Nonprofit leaders, there are important lessons in these actions.
Staff-Led Groups Cannot Anchor Your Accountability Strategy
When creating organizational accountability for racial equity efforts, avoid over-relying on staff-led groups.
How to Think Systemically about Racial Equity with the 6P+ Framework
In partnership with Make Communities, we have developed the the 6P+ Racial Equity Framework ® to take organizations from color-blind to equity-centered using a whole-organization approach.
When DEI Becomes a Weapon
In this blog post, I share thoughts about how DEI is weaponized and the opportunity for leaders who hold racial equity as a value.
Why I am Leaving DEI Behind
Shifts can be scary even for seasoned leaders. I've made a significant shift in the way I talk about my work, moving away from using DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and moving toward organizational development to describe my expertise and client outcomes.
Hurry up, Already: Slow Progress in Reaching Equity Committments Diminishes Staff Morale
Racial equity work that moves too slowly will diminish staff morale. Analysis paralysis can keep the most well-intentioned leaders from advancing needed shifts in their organization’s practices, resulting in racial equity fatigue.
Nonprofit Execs, Are You Constantly Losing Staff of Color? Here are 4 Ways to Stop the Churn.
Many nonprofits start their racial equity journey from a diversity perspective by hiring Black staff without doing the necessary systems work to retain hired talent.
How to Engage Your Board in Creating Your “Equity Why”
In this week’s blog, I want to share five proven strategies for nonprofit organizations for how (and when) to engage your Board of Directors in creating your organizational “Equity Why.”
3 Reasons to Update Your Employee Handbook — Even With A Limited Budget
Update your employee handbooks at least once a year to refresh outdated policies and add new ones.
The Power and Limitations of Racial Equity Audits: How to Uncover Organizational Weaknesses and Address Inequities
Having done several racial equity audits in the past few years, I have learned they are both powerful and limited at the same time.
Lead equitably!
Race in the Workplace provides the resources and help you need to lead equitable organizational change. It is delivered to you weekly and is written for leaders of organizations and teams. It includes actionable tools, practical guidance, and best practices from experienced leaders who believe that racial equity matters for nonprofits, philanthropies, and businesses.