Equity in the Center® (EiC) works to shift mindsets, practices and systems in the social sector to center race equity and build a Race Equity Culture™.
Building Race Equity in the workplace
This publication is the culmination of the Equity in the Center’s research, which illustrates in detail how organizations can move through the Race Equity Cycle™ by activating specific organizational levers.
Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture provides insights, tactics, and practices social sector organizations can and have used to measurably shift organizational culture, operationalize equity, and move from a dominant organizational culture to a Race Equity Culture.
Race Equity Culture Services
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Opportunities for leaders and organizations to convene to drive race equity internally and across the sector
Working Sessions
Open enrollment workshops and trainings on EiC’s Race Equity Cycle framework and research
Partner Trainings
Workshops and trainings with partners to center race equity and promote allyship and liberation
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We're taking a break! From June 17-July 4, our team will be off to observe Juneteenth and to focus on rest, which is essential to our sustainability. We'll see you in July 🖤
In the meantime, we still have so many upcoming race equity workshops. Swipe to check them out 👉 and visit the newsletter link in our bio to register!
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We've been experiencing so much change and rapid growth this year so we'll be introducing you to our amazing team members in a monthly series! 🖤
Meet Miyo (they/she), EiC’s Training Associate! They were born and partially raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi 🏝 and at age 13, they moved to the Bay Area in California. This experience allowed them to gain a nuanced perspective on how gender, mental health, culture, race, and economics play a role in adolescent identity-making. Miyo still resides in the Bay Area, where they completed their doctoral dissertation on LGBTQ+ millennial identity-making and activism. In their free time, Miyo enjoys finding ways to create and have fun at the expense of no one.
Read more about Miyo at equityinthecenter.org/miyo-hall-kennedy (link to blog in bio)
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We’re looking for a VP of Operations that will be critical to our start-up organization’s growth and sustainability! ✨ This remote role requires senior ops experience and a willing disrupter who is enthusiastic about the work of dismantling white supremacy at the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels.
Does this sound like you or someone you know? Please apply by 6/17 or spread the word! 📢📢 bit.ly/eic-ops (link in bio)
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The Black Women Thriving Report is now live! 🎉This essential report examines how orgs & companies are failing Black women + identifies what they can do to ensure Black women thrive - not just survive.
@erickadhines is the Principal of Every Level Leadership and leads this initiative. She’s also the Managing Director here at Equity in the Center and was the lead researcher for our Awake to Woke to Work™ publication!
Celebrate the launch of the #BWT report by getting your copy & sharing out 🗣
buff.ly/3at9ZMd (go to @blackwomxnthriving & click the link in bio)
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Last chance to join us June 7 & June 8th for a BIPOC-only workshop led by Whitney Parnell of Service Never Sleeps! 📢📢
This workshop will inspireand equip you with tools to be an active ally for racial justice by centering people of color, navigating intersectionality across identities, influencing others, and continuing your self-work journey 💡
Are you ready to commit to the Allyship lifestyle? Register at bit.ly/396m1Lk (link in bio under Partner Trainings)
*This workshop is only for individuals who identify as BIPOC (Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, Arab/Middle Eastern, biracial, multiracial, and others identifying as non-white).
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With the mass shootings in Buffalo, Orange County, Uvalde, and 20 more since, as well as the recent anniversaries of George Floyd's murder and the Tulsa Race Massacre, we are clear that EiC’s commitment to dismantling white supremacy and working toward race equity is more important than ever ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Want to join us in our commitment? Check out our recent newsletter for resources and race equity trainings: bit.ly/3GKRSgH (link in bio)
As #AAPIHeritageMonth comes to a close, we are resharing helpful resources on how to stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers of Asian-American, Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Islander descent year-round, especially in this time of increased hate and violence. Together, we have the power to move all communities closer to equity.
➡️ Visit equityinthecenter.org/stop-asian-hate (link in bio)
📸: @xninjason
The time is always NOW to learn how to be an active white ally and influence other white folks to do the same! 🗣🗣 Whitney Parnell of @serviceinsomnia leads this much-needed monthly training.
👉 Register today at bit.ly/3wEnQrF (link in bio)
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The wait is over - we’ve made improvements and our Pulse Check is back and better than ever! Now organizations can find out where they really are on the Race Equity Cycle. Are you at the AWAKE, WOKE, or WORK stage? 🤔
Swipe 👉 for definitions
Hint: Most orgs are not at the WORK stage.
❗️Take the Pulse Check at bit.ly/eicpulsecheck (link in bio)
Lead. Follow. Or, get out of the way. After the Buffalo, NY massacre this past weekend, these words and tools for racial equity and justice published by our President Kerrien Suarez in 2020 are still so needed.
“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.”
➡ Read the full blog post & access resources at bit.ly/3Ln6wvn (link in bio)
Over the past several months, Tamiko Ambrose Murray and Marisol Jiménez of Ambrose and Tepeyac Consulting have worked with us on strategic visioning to create and deepen a culture of inclusion and belonging. Now, we want your feedback! 💡
➡️ What do you think will strengthen our race equity efforts? Let us know at bit.ly/eicsurvey2022 (link in bio)
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Join us in giving Juan (he/him) a warm welcome as the newest member of the Equity in the Center team! 🎉
An educator by training and an organizer at heart, Juan believes in his power to attach peoples’ broader understanding of race and power to tangible actions that affect change. Juan is an award-winning educator with 10 years of teaching and administrative experience. Juan works in his current capacity from his home in Mexico City; he continues to partner with people and organizations that pursue racial equity and community engagement across the Gulf region and beyond.
Read more about him on our blog at equityinthecenter.org/juan-serrano/ (link in bio)
Is your organization stuck on how to go beyond posting anti-racist statements? 🤔 Learn how to build a Race Equity Culture™ with clear action steps in our 2-part workshop - enrollment is ongoing!
Aug 15 & 22, 2022, 2 – 4 PM ET.
Oct 31 & Nov 14, 2022, 2 – 4 PM ET.
Open to orgs with 15-49 team members attending.
➡️ Register at bit.ly/38NWVQK (link in bio).
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This month, we asked people across the US about their organization’s racial equity journey! 42% said their org has already made changes to their internal practices, 28% said conversations have begun, 24% said it’s integral to their work, and only 6% said they haven’t done anything yet.
Were these results surprising to you? Where is your org at on their racial equity journey? Let us know in the comments👇
Learn how to advance your org by checking out our Awake to Woke to Work™ publication: equityinthecenter.org/aww/ (link in bio)
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Want to be an effective white ally? Don’t miss our upcoming workshop with the amazing Whitney Parnell (pictured 📸) from @serviceinsomnia on May 10 & 11! In this space, white folks will explore how to adopt an allyship lifestyle in their lives and organizations.
“I deeply appreciate all that Whitney shared of her self, including boundless energy, a sense of humor, painful and outrageous truths and experiences, and her compassion and glimpses of her personal journey in allyship.”
- Training Participant
➡️ Link in profile under “Virtual Partner Trainings.”
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What is a microaggression? 🤔
The everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.
In getting started with race equity work in your organization, one of the first steps should be establishing a shared vocabulary of key foundational concepts! This may not seem important, but it’s key in getting everyone on the same page and coming up with shared solutions.
To help you get started on shared language, check out our Awake to Woke to Work publication: equityinthecenter.org/aww (link in profile)
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Imagine If...
Your conversations about racial justice were consistently nourishing and energizing ✨
That tension and conflict around race ended up as gateways to deeper relationships
All of this was possible.
👉Join us for Racial Justice Stances: Grounding in Our Truths led by @ahimsastrategies and Living Change. April 26 & 28, 1-3pm ET
Link in profile under “Virtual Partner Trainings”
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What does it mean for white people to be effective allies to people of color in our work for racial equity and collective liberation?
Last chance to register for the Intersectional Allyship for Racial Justice: A Workshop for White Allies on April 12 & 13 led by our amazing partner @serviceinsomnia
Link in profile under “Virtual Partner Trainings.”
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SOCIAL JUSTICE is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of power, wealth, education, healthcare, and other opportunities for personal activity and social privileges.
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We envision a future where nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are characterized by a Race Equity Culture, meaning they implement and advance race equity internally while advocating for and centering it in work externally.
To achieve that future, we challenge colleagues to adopt specific tactics on the levels at which racism operates.