Define Your Vision and Commitment

Define Your Vision and Commitment

by Chart Your Path

You need this if you want to: Recognize the importance of DEI in your organization’s work and integrate DEI into your vision, mission and core values.

Key activities by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Conduct workshops or trainings to help board, senior leaders and team build shared understanding of DEI, enable reflection, and create resolve to deepen DEI across the organization and its work.
  • Review existing vision and mission statements and core values, and revise them to incorporate a commitment to DEI. Adopt clear definitions of DEI and develop a statement articulating its benefits to the organization.

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Develop and Resource Your DEI Strategy

Develop and Resource Your DEI Strategy

by Advance Equitable Outcomes Foundations

You need this if you want to: Incorporate DEI into the foundation’s grantmaking as a dedicated and/or cross-cutting funding priority.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Gather and analyze data, including perspectives from multiple internal and external stakeholders, to identify opportunities to apply a greater equity focus to your grantmaking priorities.
  • Engage with Board, leadership, staff and external stakeholders (e.g., community and grantees), as appropriate, to identify clear DEI-related grantmaking goals, including priority areas and levels of investment.
  • Articulate key strategic choices and trade-offs. Facilitate inclusive discussion and debate to identify aligned strategies (including investment criteria), develop a roadmap for action, and generate broad buy-in.
  • Develop an implementation plan that prioritizes and sequences actions based on needs. Define structures to further DEI work within the organization.
  • Identify and allocate budgets necessary to ensure adequate resources to support DEI work. Identify metrics to measure progress.

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Recruit and Hire Diverse Staff

Recruit and Hire Diverse Staff

by Diversify Your Organization General

You need this if you want to: Diversify your talent pool and redesign your recruitment and selection practices.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Define goals for recruitment and hiring so that staff reflect the backgrounds of communities or users served.
  • Review recruitment and hiring timelines and streamline application processes to reduce barriers for applicants. Expand recruitment efforts to increase outreach to candidates of color.
  • Review and revise hiring policies, practices and rubrics to make them more transparent, unbiased and inclusive (e.g., by training interviewers on mitigating bias).
  • Develop a standardized onboarding process that provides support to people from diverse backgrounds.
  • Consider deeper organizational changes necessary to become an employer of choice for diverse staff.

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Recruit and Hire Diverse Teachers and Leaders

Recruit and Hire Diverse Teachers and Leaders

by Diversify Your Organization Schools and School Systems

You need this if you want to: Diversify your talent pool and redesign your recruitment and selection practices.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Define goals for recruitment and hiring so that teachers and leaders reflect the backgrounds of the students and communities served.
  • Review recruitment and hiring timelines and streamline application processes to reduce barriers for applicants. Expand recruitment efforts to increase outreach to candidates of color.
  • Review and revise hiring policies, practices and rubrics to make them more transparent, unbiased and inclusive (e.g., by training interviewers on mitigating bias).
  • Develop a standardized onboarding process that provides support to people from diverse backgrounds.
  • Consider deeper organizational changes necessary to become an employer of choice for diverse teachers and leaders.

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Start the Conversation

Start the Conversation

by Prepare Your Community

You need this if you want to: Build shared understanding of DEI as well as issues of race, class, power and privilege among key stakeholders.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Conduct workshops or other forms of trainings to help leadership, staff and board members build shared understanding of systemic inequities and enable reflection on how the organization’s work is affected by and perpetuates systems and structures of oppression.
  • Create leadership and team resolve to work towards addressing systemic inequities through your work.

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Build an Inclusive Culture

Build an Inclusive Culture

by Infuse DEI in Your Culture

You need this if you want to: Infuse diversity, equity and inclusion across all aspects of organizational culture.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Build staff capacity as leaders for equity and deepen their resolve to engage in issues related to race, class, power and privilege.
  • Examine the organizational expectations, values, norms and routines that influence how stakeholders interact with one another.
  • Engage with relevant stakeholders, such as the leadership team, staff, board, parents, students and community members, to develop expectations, values, norms and routines that are centered around DEI.
  • Communicate new expectations and articulate how these will be implemented and enforced.

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Build Your Organization’s DEI Capacity

Build Your Organization’s DEI Capacity

by General Prepare Your Community

You need this if you want to: Prepare board, leadership and staff so they are equipped to become DEI leaders.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Provide training and coaching support to leaders and board members to deepen their understanding and commitment to DEI, equip them to lead diverse, inclusive and equitable teams, and build comfort in talking about systemic inequities and their impact.
  • Build leadership capacity to manage, support and coach their teams through the change process.
  • Build staff capacity and resolve to engage in issues related to race, class, power and privilege. Facilitate conversations on power and privilege that openly address current organizational dynamics and speak to the change required to achieve equity at the organizational and systemic levels.

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Develop and Resource Your Strategy

Develop and Resource Your Strategy

by Chart Your Path
You need this if you want to: Identify a set of goals, articulate a clear strategy to infuse DEI across the organization, and map out actions and resources needed for successful implementation. 

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Based on DEI assessment <add link to project>, identify and prioritize a set of actions your organization can take to build on strengths and address gaps.
  • Engage with board, leadership, staff and external stakeholders, as appropriate, to establish clear DEI goals.
  • Develop an implementation plan to achieve goals, including structures to further DEI work within the organization (e.g., designated person/committee to “own” DEI work).
  • Develop a budget to identify and allocate necessary resources.
  • Identify metrics and timeline to measure and track progress.

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