Racial Equity

What is the sustainability case? An organization's health, success, and longevity - that is, its sustainability - is more achievable when it invests time and resources to engage, value, and include different perspectives and lived experiences inside the organization and in the communities with which it works and serves. Many nonprofits feel ethically and morally compelled to invest in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and some even feel that this…

There has been a recent resurgence in supporting greater community engagement by foundations, government agencies, and nonprofits. Currently, these institutions feel a sense of urgency to eliminate racial inequities. In order to achieve equitable systems, there must be equity in the power that actually influences those systems to provide what these communities want, not just to inform them. Community engagement merely to collect information or sensing priorities will not be…