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Step-By-Step: A Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

This guide by Third Sector New England was developed from lessons learned and best practices of organizations that have collaborated with the program in a peer learning community. It includes suggested action steps to establish a framework, integrate the work with organizational goals, and evaluate progress.  


Becoming a Catalyst for Social Justice: A Tool for Aligning Internal Operations to Produce Progress Moving Philanthropy Closer to Racial Equality and Social Justice

This 2006 publication by Betty Emarita of Effective Communities provides a series of questions to help community foundations become more intentional catalysts for social justice by recognizing specific causes of racial inequalities and how to change them.  


Building on a Better Foundation

This 2000 toolkit by Donors Forum of Chicago, Minnesota Council on Foundations, Northern California Grantmakers, and New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (now Philanthropy New York) provides a framework for grantmaking organizations to address inclusivity in their roles as funders, employers, businesses and community partners. For each role the toolkit gives case examples, questions for […]


Inclusiveness at Work: How to Build Inclusive Nonprofit Organizations

This 2005 guide created by the Inclusiveness Project at the Denver Foundation provides an intentional focus on race and ethnicity, but is adaptable to other dimensions of inclusiveness. It includes detailed steps, worksheets and sample documents for making a long-term organizational commitment to inclusiveness.  


The Common Vision Guide to Structural Change Grantmaking

This guide by Funders for LGBTQ Issues provides a step-by-step framework for structural change grantmaking utilizing historical experience, relationships and needs within diverse communities.  It includes a structural analysis worksheet, an impact assessment tool, and sample RFPs.