Inspiration and encouragement for building a Race Equity Culture
As a start-up organization, we’re experiencing a period of rapid growth and transition. We are grateful to each stakeholder that has supported EiC’s work since our debut in 2017! Cross-sector support from race equity leaders, champions, and funders has been crucial in positioning us for this moment of transformation.
Equity in the Center is hiring for the VP of Operations, a role that will be critical to our start-up organization’s growth and sustainability! The VP will be responsible for building and running cross-functional processes that touch every employee at EiC.
With three recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Orange Country, California, and Uvalde, Texas, we’ve seen, yet again, how deeply white supremacy and violence are embedded in the fabric of this nation. We are heartbroken for these victims and their families. We are angry that “thoughts and prayers” are offered but action to prevent gun violence, which disproportionately affects BIPOC, is not.
This post, originally published on December 17, 2020, is relevant during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM). Especially in the wake of the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, NY that took 10 lives and injured three more this past weekend, it remains important to call for the eradication of the anti-Blackness that permeates globally. The Asian American and Black communities have a history of solidarity to build on. Working together, we can build true racial solidarity and move all communities closer to equity.
Originally published on March 23, 2021. Using an intersectional frame, last week’s horrific killing of eight people, six of whom were Asian women, can be viewed as the tragic manifestation of the misogyny, racism and white supremacy embedded in the fabric of American culture and society – the same culture that generously described the white gunman’s actions as the result of “a bad day” and his being “fed up.” In America, the crimes of a white male domestic terrorist can be casually regarded with greater humanity than the lives or deaths of those he murdered.
An educator by training and an organizer at heart, Juan Serrano (he/him) believes in his power to attach peoples’ broader understanding of race and power to tangible actions that affect change.
Sandra Herrera (she/her) is excited to join Equity in the Center as the new Communications Associate. She also enjoys being a plant mom, eating tamales and arroz con gandules, and reading any book that Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes.
Miyo Hall-Kennedy (they/she) is the Training Associate with Equity in the Center. Miyo has spent the last fifteen-plus years working across a variety of sectors, including the U.S. Navy, mental healthcare, K-12 education, and employment services for nonprofit organizations in California, Virginia, Chicago, and Las Vegas
To better align EiC's pricing to the team's equity values and established best practices among national equity leaders (such as Rockwood Leadership Institute), we will adopt a tiered pricing model beginning in April 2022. We ask that organizations purchasing tickets...
Equity in the Center is hiring a Director/Sr. Director, Content and Stakeholder Engagement role, working alongside Rebekah, that will be critical to the organization’s growth and sustainability.
Rebekah Gowler (she/her), our Senior Director, Content and Stakeholder Engagement, and Jaser Alsharhan, of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), explore how grantmakers are reimagining racial equity in their organizations in this blog collab announcing GEO’s newest learning cohort, the Race Equity Culture™ Fellowship, designed in partnership with our team.
Many EiC stakeholders don’t know the story of our founding and evolution into an independent 501c3, so gather for story time as we celebrate our first year as an independent non-profit organization, marked by growth and innovation, in the midst of a massive racial...
Equity in the Center is inviting applications for two new positions, a full-time Communications Associate and a part-time Training Coordinator. These new roles are critical to the organization’s growth and sustainability. The Communications Associate will be a key...
Equity in the Center is thrilled to be one of the 286 organizations that received a part of the almost 3 billion dollars that MacKenzie Scott committed to addressing social inequities in our society. We are very proud to be amongst our race equity peers in receiving...
As Equity in the Center continues this period of rapid growth, we are now seeking applications for an Operations Associate. This new position is currently a part-time role (approx. 20 hours per week), however, the potential for full-time employment is possible within...
In December 2020, a group of colleagues that has been convening regularly to learn with and from one another published a set of shared values that illustrate who we are, why we came together and how we show up in our work to support one another and organizations as...
Equity in the Center is inviting applications for the Director/Sr. Director, Content and Stakeholder Engagement, a new role that will be critical to the organization’s growth and sustainability. The person in this position will lead service delivery of EiC...
"Please stop saying this is not America, or we are better than this. America was founded on the violent taking of land and reliance on chattel slavery by white supremacist slave owners who documented their plan to commit genocide on Indigenous people. Just over 50...
Who We Are, Why We Came Together & How We Show Up A little over a year ago, a group of colleagues began convening regularly to learn with and from one another, and to support our collective vision and daily work to make progress toward race equity and collective...
By centering the voices, lived expertise, healing practices, leadership and power of Indigenous and Black people, we make progress toward the deep equity and liberation that this moment in history, and colonialism’s legacy of state-sanctioned savagery and white supremacy, requires.
In Partnership and Solidarity Broader reach and sector-level focus will guide the next chapter as Equity in the Center becomes an independent organization Today marks a new chapter in Equity in the Center’s story — one we are writing in partnership with stakeholders...
This article was originally published in the PEAK Grantmaking Journal: Black Voices in Grants Management, which makes space for Black grants professionals to be heard in the discussion on racial diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy, with ideas for building...
By: Kad Smith [Image by Steve Johnson From Pexels] If you’ve checked out our offerings at CompassPoint before, you know that we’ve referenced the habits of white supremacy culture frequently. It’s become one of the guiding frameworks that’s helped us build a...
By: Nicola Chin Last week as I was creating this framework for Strategic Thinking in a Long-Term Crisis, I came across a hole in our library of resources: grieving. Up With Community has tools and resources to share on trauma, but we were lacking supports to...
By: Nicola Chin We’ve spent the last two weeks virtually connecting with community-based partners across the country on their responses and needs at this moment. We have heard the resounding historic theme that, in moments of crisis, communities of color and other...
A Founder’s Reflections on Pausing and Transitioning POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 [Español abajo] By Amy Mandel (Bio below) During our “pause for the cause,” AMKRF has entered a time of organizational reflection and analysis building. As a part of our work, we are...
Liberation from the Inside Out POSTED ON JUNE 5, 2019 [Español abajo] Lindsay sitting still and going inward By Lindsay Majer (Bio below) I imagine our pause for the cause has looked like an eleven-month vacation. We did not welcome a new cohort of Fellows. We...
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle Philanthropy POSTED ON AUGUST 19, 2019 [Español abajo] By: Marsha Davis (Bio below) During our “pause for the cause,” AMKRF has entered a time of organizational reflection and analysis building. As a part of our work, we are...
This blog expands on our two previous blogs about Reimagining Compensation. You can find those blogs here and here. Both of these blogs are part of our longer series about living into values of justice and equity at CompassPoint. Read the other blogs in this series...
"Do you want to be right, or do you want to be free?” –Many, many people. Recently: Chris Guilllebeau. Hmmmmmmm. Do I want to be right or do I want to be free? Now, that's a tough one. Sometimes I really, reallllllllllly want to be right. I want everyone to see things...
Written by Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff - Adjunct Professor at St. Louis University and Consultant at Keecha Harris and Associates, inc. By 2044, people of color will be a majority of the population in America. As we move toward this reality, broad opportunities exist...
Written By Kad Smith, Project Director, CompassPoint This is the third blog in our series around our journey to center racial justice, equity, and a vision for leadership in service of liberation at CompassPoint. If you missed the first two installments, catch up here...
Grisel M. Robles-Schrader Saludos/Greetings I’m Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Director of Evaluation, Stakeholder-Academic Resource Panels (ShARPs), and Director of the Applied Practice Experience at Northwestern University. I am also co-chair of the Latinx Responsive...
By Heather Laine Talley Co-Director of Organizational Strategy and Practice at the Amy Mandel and Katina Rodis Fund Heather grew up in South Louisiana, where she discovered social justice through Catholic workers who worked towards radically inclusive community. Since...
Written by Yolanda Caldera-Durant, Vice President, Fund the People For many aspiring professionals of color, unpaid internships and low-paying apprenticeships are one of the few ways they can enter the nonprofit workforce, but they simply are not financially viable....
Nicola Chin, Founder, Up With Community@nicolamchin @upwithcommunity Note: This guest post is a review and expansion of a workshop offered at the October 2018 Equity in the Center Summit. Nicola during her 2018 Equity in the Center Summit workshop. At some point in...
By Kerrien Suarez with the support of Ericka Hines Image created by Julie Stuart of Making Ideas Visible This is the second in a series of recommendations designed to help nonprofit and philanthropic organizations engage consultants to build a Race Equity Culture. You...
Written by Leniece F. Brissett, Kerrien Suarez and Andrew Plumley Photo Credit: WOCinTech Chat Organizations have a feverish obsession with getting diverse talent in the door. In the past year, Guidestar and NonProfit Quarterly published pieces underscoring the...
By Kerrien Suarez with the support of Ericka Hines This is the first in a two-part series of recommendations designed to help nonprofit and philanthropic organizations engage consultants to build a Race Equity Culture. Leaders find the process of hiring a race equity...
As a start-up organization, we’re experiencing a period of rapid growth and transition. We are grateful to each stakeholder that has supported EiC’s work since our debut in 2017! Cross-sector support from race equity leaders, champions, and funders has been crucial in positioning us for this moment of transformation.
Equity in the Center is hiring for the VP of Operations, a role that will be critical to our start-up organization’s growth and sustainability! The VP will be responsible for building and running cross-functional processes that touch every employee at EiC.
With three recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Orange Country, California, and Uvalde, Texas, we’ve seen, yet again, how deeply white supremacy and violence are embedded in the fabric of this nation. We are heartbroken for these victims and their families. We are angry that “thoughts and prayers” are offered but action to prevent gun violence, which disproportionately affects BIPOC, is not.