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A Toolkit for Serving Diverse Communities

This toolkit by U.S. Administration on Aging is designed to help funders in aging, aging agencies and their partners to discuss how to provide better services for diverse older communities.  It includes an organizational assessment, ways to identify community knowledge for organizational capacity-building, questions to guide inclusive service design and effective evaluation.  


Guidance for Agency-Specific Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plans

This 2011 report by U.S. Office of Personnel Management includes priorities, actions, and sample practices for workforce diversity, workplace inclusion, and sustainability.    


Gender Transformative Philanthropy

This 2013 guide by TrueChild is designed to help funders address gender norms and gender equity in their grantmaking. The guide covers basic language, concepts, and background, as well as the challenges ahead and specific suggestions for program officers.


Effective and Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities: Building a Framework and Agenda for Change

This document outlines ABFE’s framework for effective philanthropy in black communities, including the role that philanthropy should take in constituency engagement, policy change, system reform, program delivery, leadership development, and data collection and research.


Translating Complexity Into Effective Practice

This 2013 issue brief by philanthropic advisor OMG Center for Collaborative Learning describes the process undertaken by this 30-year old consulting practice to institutionalize organizational policies that build and support staff to carry out work that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.