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This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices ...
Tools for creating healthy, productive interracial/multicultural communities.
Recorded webinar of North Sound ACH learning session for our monthly series, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, June 15, 2022. With Ramona Beltran (Univers...
Recording of May’s learning session for Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, Meaningful Work & Wealth
Slide deck for the May learning session, Meaningful Work & Wealth.
A webinar hosted by Nonprofit Quarterly and Shelterforce, with four field leaders discussing central questions regarding economic justice, racial justice, and s...
An article in the National Civic Review, written by Bobby Milstein, about the positive forces that could be unleashed if our economic life were truly oriented a...
Visual toolkit from the Rippel Foundation, to create a balanced and impactful set of policies, programs, and practices to transform well-
Report from Prosperity Now on the federal policies they will focus on in 2022 to create systemic change that allows for everyone, especially low-income, BIPOC c...
This website houses the National Research Center (NRC) at Polco, which gives local governments and other public sector organizations the data they need to make ...
This article explores how nonprofits can better measure impact, not just with spreadsheets but with more powerful analytic and story-telling tools. It provides ...
This publication shares information on the #BelongingPledge and encourages readers to commit to the discussion about racial equity no matter how uncomfortable i...
This gallery depicts the violence, rage, and protests of the Black Lives Matter movement across the country.
This publication argues that the only way make a dent in social justice is if progressive nonprofits and foundations overcome their disdain of politics and full...
This article explores how states are dealing with unexpected financial strains, as they hurriedly divert funds from elsewhere to fight the outbreak and the econ...
This article details vast inequities due to coronavirus, including among who get sicks and who has access to care. It argues that COVID-19 is not the great equa...
This publication outlines nine ideas from interviews with public health experts, education officials and educators around the country for what school reopening ...
This article features Google CEO Sundar Pichai on new, widespread commitments to racial equity including increasing black employees at senior levels and a new g...
This publication explores how the National Book Critics Circle, an organization of some 800 critics that gives out a number of annual awards, fractured over dis...
This article explores how four Black-led orgs are hiring a shared chief development officer to sustain and grow their fundraising work.
This publication discusses how frustrated by talk but little action and a lack of resources, many diversity executives find themselves rotating through C-suites...
As this article discusses, diversity and inclusion experts are working with Hollywood companies on town halls, bias trainings and action plans for years, expone...
This article explores how cycling as a culture, sport, and industry has failed Black America, amidst a national reckoning with systemic racism. It outlines the ...
This blog cites business as the primary reason that most while male employees don’t engage with diversity and inclusion efforts. It shares research from a...
This news releases details how Governor Gavin Newsom submitted his $100 billion California Comeback Plan to the Legislature, a comprehensive recovery package ta...
This article introduces Enrich Chicago, a nonprofit formed to highlight the lack of leaders of color within the city’s arts and cultural systems. Enrich Chica...
This article explores how a Los Angeles Superior Court judge published a ruling that will stop the voter-approved Measure J from taking effect. Measure J was in...
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
This article explores how Hollywood has a bleak track record for diversity, both in front of the camera and behind it. It also highlights how as the TV and film...
This article discusses Trump’s decision to prohibit federal agencies from conducting cultural sensitivity trainings because they are “divisive, anti-Ame...
This piece discusses the question of why law schools who claimed #BlackLivesMatter when their students were off-campus during the summer were afraid to discuss ...
This news article describes the work of the new Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascón. He plans to stop criminalizing public health problems and acts li...
This article explores vaccine inequity in LA where many seniors, despite being eligible to receive the shots, had failed to secure appointments. Many of others ...
This news article discusses how the L.A. City Council voted to override the Mayor’s veto of a proposal they backed to reallocate $88 million from the Los Ange...
This article discusses the lack of diversity among boards in U.S. companies, especially with regards to representation of women or racially diverse members. It ...
As this article explores, there is widespread racial inequality in who is receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, possibly due to lack of access and lack of investment ...
This article highlights risks faced by food delivery and grocery store workers, who are among the lowest paid and least protected of those deemed “essential...
This articles advocates for policy reform, including how extending tax credits to immigrant workers and their families can end an exclusionary policy that exace...
This article explores how accessing green space and nature is a privilege reserved largely for the rich and White, focusing specifically on Los Angeles.
This article outlines 5 steps to being more of an ally to people and students during COVID-19 and beyond, from acknowledging privilege to sharing power and oppo...
Amidst COVID-19 budget cuts, many universities pulled back diversity and inclusion efforts. This article explores how DEI work suffers when institutions cut spe...
This op-ed argues against returning to normal life and the same oppressive systems in a post-pandemic world, offering inspiration for achieving equality and jus...
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
This article explores the concept and history of “backlash”, which the author argues is holding the United States back from making social progress a...
This blog by the Sierra Club explores how a public health disparity, the disproportionate mortality of Black Americans due to COVID-19, is rooted in systemic ra...
This article describes efforts to creating a “People’s Budget” in Los Angeles following the killing of George Floyd. It explores the effects o...
This piece describes former First Lady Michelle Obama’s reaction to the killing of George Floyd including advice to the public to self-examine and listen ...
This piece explores how bias training, body cameras, and community dialogue in Minneapolis have not been sufficient in ending police violence. The author makes ...
This article explores how social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok responded to the death of George Floyd and ensueing #BlackLivesMatt...
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, this article examines the need for political will to reform policing in the U.S. and protect black and brown constit...
This piece published in the Sierra Club argues that the ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world. It ex...
This story covers how employees at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts voted overwhelmingly to unionize, opening a new era of collective bargaining at the city’s f...
This article explores how the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund launched an online giving campiagn for 40 organizations that focus on issues including higher educ...
This story explores global barriers to getting the vaccine; it demonstrates that getting a vaccine means living in the right place or knowing the right people.
From the author of “How to Be an Antiracist”, this article explores American narcissim, concepts of freedom and community, and how the pandemic has ...
This video series by TIME features two doctors who explain how the African American community is facing systemic forces that make them particularly vulnerable t...
In this piece, Los Angeles’ most thoughtful academics, politicians, business leaders, artists, and chefs answer the question ’What’s next?’ amidst C...
This piece highlights Women in Development, a 40-year-old organization devoted to empowering and supporting New York-area women in the development field. It fea...
Written as a plea to the author’s White male friends, this letter explores the current political landscape and the price COVID-19 is exacting on Black liv...
Written as a plea to the author’s White male friends, this letter explores the current political landscape and the price COVID-19 is exacting on Black liv...
This video, posted on Instagram by Viola Davis, explains systemic racism and momentum for reparations through storytelling and animation.
This interview with Kerrien Suarez, an Executive Director of Equity, discusses how how philanthropy approached racial diversity, equity, and inclusion — often...
This article explores how a California program intended to improve COVID-19 vaccine availability to people in hard-hit communities of color was misused by outsi...
Recording of the Land Back learning session on April 20, 2022 hosted by North Sound ACH
Slide deck for April learning session, Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
This webpage introduces the Governor’s Interagency Council of Health Disparities, which was created in 2006 in Washington state. The council is responsibl...
This bill in Washington state, House Bill 1783, creates a Washington state office of equity. This resource offers a history and the details of the bill as well ...
This news article covers the passing of legislation in Washington state, House Bill 1783. The bill would set up an Office of Equity within the Governor’s Offi...
This article highlights the essential work done and risks faced by farrmworkers in fields, orchards and packing houses essential to keeping grocery stores stock...
This news article describes how Washington Gov. Jay Inslee used his power to cut $445 million in spending from the state operating budget and the implications f...
Featuring voices from labor organizers, this article covers how labor unions sued Washington state over lack of protections for farmworkers. It was one of the f...
After Washington state was sued by labor unions in 2020 for not adequately protecting essential workers, this article describes an emergency rule it ordered. It...
This article describe a merger of two health care networks in Washington state, which represents the increasing monopolization of health care. the merger will f...
This article describes how Washington’s new Vaccine Equity Fund partners with community-based organizations to vaccinate communities hit hardest by COVID-19. ...
This article tells the story of the elderly and children who are among the thousands of agricultural workers who harvested blueberries and cherries throughout t...
This article explores how businesses are revising their company policies to address racial equity concerns and increase diversity. It uses Boeing, Everett Schoo...
This resource maps some of the most important factors – socioeconomic, environment, education and access to resources – that contribute to these challenges ...
This interactive tool maps coronavirus socioeconomic disparities in LA. It offers exploration by COVID-19 cases, vulnerable renters, proportion of people uninsu...
This article explores how Black Americans will experience a disproportionate share of the disruption from COVID-19—from morbidity and mortality to unemploymen...
As the world contends with social justice and equity issues, this article describes how to navigate a diverse workforce and be an inclusive person. It summarize...
This website provides resources for small businesses, micro-enterprise & non-profit organizations during COVID-19 in both English and Spanish. It allows fo...
This piece explores how applying racial justice lens requires us to confront power, shift how we distribute our resources, and move toward system-wide transform...
As part of the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences initiative, this article explores the concept of bridging and provides eight key principles ...
This article by john a. powell implores readers to move past inclusion to belonging—the difference being that in belonging you have the power to cocreate the ...
This article by john a. powell and Stephen Menedian explores the concept of “othering”, which encompasses all prejudices on the basis of group ident...
This DEI plan from Michigan State is a framework of recommendations to guide institutional plans and decisions to increase equity. It asks, and answers, a serie...
This article explores the work of BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners which is reimagining how cities get built. Urba...
After interviewing contact tracing experts and taking an online course in surveillance technology, the author of this piece argues that we do not need invasive ...
This blog is part of a series that examines the habits of white supremacy culture, a guiding framework that helps build a common language around racial justice ...
Summarizing findings from White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America, this article examines how white children learn about race. It als...
This paper examines the implementation and evolution of participatory budgeting in the City of Vallejo, California, following its 2008 bankruptcy. It also refle...
This article explores the social patterns, informed by the fields of psychology, group dynamics, and leadership studies, of coronavirus. It outline the course o...
This article compares two Los Angeles hopsitals which serve vastly different communities, but which have both been crippled by equipment and personnel shortages...
This piece makes the argument for why companies should prioritize diversity and equity efforts, even amidst COVID-19. Reasons include that people of color are d...
In a summary of a new nationwide study, this article examines how coronavirus patients in areas that had high levels of air pollution before the pandemic are mo...
This article examines the relationship between race and the coronavirus, highlighting how Black Americans face alarming rates of infection in some states.
This opinion piece argues that dismantling mass incarceration in the United States is not a question of possibility or costs, but a matter of imagination and wi...
This article explores how the pandemic ripped through Navajo nation and how officials responded by putting up checkpoints, assembling field hospitals and threat...
This story explores how three Los Angeles-based women doctors launched a free telehealth app and online portal called myCOVIDMD that safely connects individuals...
This brief explores how we can center racial equity in the distribution and implementation of emergency response funds. It calls for a number of key strategies ...
This news article explores how a new online mapping tool is helping researchers more accurately locate California communities most at risk from the novel corona...
As this article explores, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased telehealth visits in medicine. It explores how telehealth will continue to be funded ...
Based on a recent study, this article finds that the trauma and stress that police violence cause for Black people, and the physical toll of that violence, may ...
This article previews a report on inequity in philanthropy, which shows that nonprofit organizations led by black and Latino executive directors lag behind peer...
This feature by Barack Obama shares lessons learned from history about the struggle for racial justice. Obama advocates for insitiutional and policy changes, es...
This article explores the history of tuberculosis and provides residential COVID data, demonstrating how Black and Latinx communities are being hit the hardest....
This article explores how the issues that created and perpetuated inequity before COVID are exacerbating the fatality of the virus for people adversely affected...
Whether through hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes, disaster relief nonrprofits have laid the groundwork for emergency preparedness. This article explores ho...
This article explores how the pandemic may leave communities of color vastly undercounted in the census, costing them billions in public funds.
This piece contextualizes a roadmap by the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice which outlines an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery effort. It provides...
This report from Mckinsey is the third in a series investigating the business case for diverstiy. It demonstrates, using data from over 1000 companies, that the...
This article summarizes a recent report from Mckinsey aimed at examining the business case for diversity in executive positions. It found that companies with gr...
This article examines whether unconscious bias training can eradicate prejudice and discrimination from the workplace. It provides evidence from academia and sc...
This article explores how systemic racism can leave black people suffering from symptoms similar to PTSD. It offers suggestions for dismantling racism in the pr...
This written and audio segment tells the story of GirlTrek, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and healing of black women and girls. The organizat...
This article argues that companies need to revisit diversity and inclusion strategies, and hiring managers must develop a more focused inclusion agenda. It prov...
This piece examines how cities have long perpetuated anti-Black racism through policies and physical spaces that have institutionalized the economic inequality,...
This story explores how 12 formerly incarcerated individuals will learn how to produce videos, podcasts, and other digital media in a nonprofit, Second Chance S...
This publication tells the story of Jawanza Malone, executive director of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, and countless other Black-led nonprofits a...
This audio and written segment explores the concept of racial inquiry (RI), which can be an approach to personal and organizational leadership development as we...
Exposing the deep disparities faced by students of color amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this article shares findings from a report by the Los Angeles Unified Schoo...
This news article describes Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to sign into law a bill which mandates that students take ethnic studies as a graduation requ...
This article explores what government agencies do to make meaningful steps toward racial equity by making sure city budgets reflect their values. Recommendation...
This article covers California Governor Newsom’s decision to sign into law a diversity mandate. Public companies headquartered in California will be legal...
This article shares findings from a report on California’s 2018 diversity mandate, which compelled public companies headquartered in the state to ensure g...
This publication by the Othering and Belonging Institute describes findings from their project investigating the extent, harm and solutions to racial residentia...
This article summarizes two recent studies which reveal the challenges faced by Black employees. It explores racial inequality in the workplace and advocates fo...
This article examines a lawsuit in which several California families allege the state isn’t providing adequate support and equipment necessary for children of...
An analysis of grant-funded organizations and unrestricted net assests of Black-led organizations, this article explores how foundations can advance racial equi...
This article explores how coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tr...
This analysis describes the previous work of Texas’ Office of Minority Health Statistics and Engagement, which tracked disparities in health and was accou...
This article and audio segment tells the story of Ronell Foster, Willie McCoy, and other unarmed Black men who have been fatally shot by police. Other findings ...
This article and video news segment tells the story of how the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to cut 133 positions from the L.A. School Police Depart...
This article examines the inequity of COVID-19 vaccination systems in the U.S., highlighting barriers like transportation, language, disability, internet access...
This article highlights how unarmed civilians and outreach workers from the fire department, not cops, respond to mental health crises calls in Oakland.
Highlighting the importance of creating communities within a community, this article advocates for companies to create employee groups for women, veterans, the ...
This article describes NinetyToZero, new initiative to address the racial wealth gap in the United States by the CEOs of Starbucks and Goldman Sachs along with ...
This podcast explores the debate underway about what to do with buildings, monuments and roads named after two Confederate generals in Virginia.
Through a case study of a Texas education bill, HB 3979, this article explores the political conflict over critical race theory. The bill, which has become a mo...
This article explores why the U.S. is become more, not less, segregated in recent years. It argues that residential housing segregation drives many, if not all,...
As part of the Roots of Structural Racism Project, this report contains startling findings about the intensification of racial residential segregation in recent...
This article highlights six key takeways from a literature review on diversity efforts in organizations, arguing that trainings alone will not address systemic ...
This interview with scholars Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo examines the vastly different experiences of Black and white women in corporate America. The profe...
This article describes how CIELO, a local Indigenous organization, partnered with UCLA to create a map of Latin American Indigenous languages in L.A. County. Th...
This article tells the story of CAHOOTS — Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets — a program run by a social services center in Eugene, Oregon...
Exposing the slow pace of investment in racial equity by corporations, this article provides three tangible approaches to promoting racial justice. The authors ...
This article explores the committments and investments of corporations and companies following the murder of George Floyd and demands from the Black Lives Matte...
This news article describes The Los Angeles City Council’s move o have staff members draft a “Racial Equity Audit” of the city’s programs, policies ...
This AP news article shares the Los Angeles County plan for returning a beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who built a resort for African Amer...
This news article describes how four years after the Chickahominy Tribe in Virginia received federal recognition, some of its traditional lands will be given ba...
This article describes a legal battle between Seattle and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe alleging that the city’s hydroelectric dams violate the native salmon...
This news release details how the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Tribe headquartered in King County, has acquired roughly 12,000 acres of its a...
This website describes and explores the Swinomish Reservation, which is located on Fidalgo Island in Western Washington State. It also explores unlawful attempt...
Building relationships with tribes of the North Sound Region and committed to an ongoing journey of Tribal learning and equity.
This toolkit was created to help address common barriers and opportunities of virtual meetings. It is intended to facilitate effective online community events a...
Creating Safe & Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Clients webinar recorded on 7/31/19
This article outlines teaching and learning tactics grounded in decades of research on how children learn and helps build mastery of core academic content while...
This publication by the CDC provides resources related to Tribal Public Health. The resources include general ones related to Indian health policy and tribal pu...
This report outlines a series of urgent priorities for strengthening tribal public health, including building community capacity, strengthening local economies,...
As our society grapples with multiple systemic crises, including COVID-19, climate change, and racial injustice, an opportunity for multi-solving emerges. Multi...
This agreement by the Indigenous Environmental Network outlines a series of principles for a “just” transition to a green economy. It recognizes Ind...
This journal article explores how indigenous peoples have been agents of environmental conservation through activism and political engagement at local and natio...
This story discusses how environmental organizations and tribes have been coming together to protect the natural world. A key part of the teamwork has been land...
This article explores the land back movement, the basis for stealing Indigenous lands, demands of the Indigenous land back movement, reparations in the context ...
This policy and practice brief explores the concept of “land back” in higher education. The author both problematizes ladn acknowledgements without land bas...
This guide is designed to support efforts to work towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. It contains educational articles on colonialism...
This document provides guidance on how to develop and implement an equitable vaccine response. It contains information on how to most equitably prioritize vacci...
This website contains a curated collection by Salud America! of culturally relevant stories, infographics, webinars, and other resources on the COVID-19 pandemi...
This guide suggests municipal strategies for deploying ARP funds equitably, efficiently, and strategically, and lays out a framework for equitable decision-maki...
Everyone is assigned a gender at birth. A doctor checks each baby over, and, primarily based on external features, selects one of two gender options that seems ...
North Sound ACH supports a space for dialogue for people of color (POC) as they navigate their individual and collective wellbeing. This is a virtual meeting sp...
The North Sound Indigenous Futurity Alliance is dedicated to supporting young leaders in the North Sound region while specifically holding space for the voices ...
To break down silos and effectively address inequities, systems must work together with each other and with community members to collectively align their action...
This free online course provides a learning environment from which to explore the root causes of inequity in the distribution of disease, illness, and death. Pa...
This guide provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team for designing, coordinat...
This webinar is the first in INSIGHT into Diversity’s series, “Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy,” and features six panelists who r...
This article focuses on the growing trend in higher education to remember, honor, and acknowledge the the tribes and people to whom this land originally belonge...
This report reviews data from 2018 surveys of 10th grade students in Washington on mental health, substance use, abuse, harassment, and bullying. It provides in...
This webinar is the third of the Tribal Learning Series and focuses on indigenous health indicators and what being healthy means in context of tribal communitie...
This webinar explains the importance of indigenous knowledge informed systems of care, components of traditional medicine, how indigenous knowledge informed sys...
This presentation from john a. powell from 2016 outlines the concept of Targeted Universalism through a series of graphics and examples.
What is Targeted Universalism? Across people and places, vast disparities continue to exist in our nation—from health outcomes to education, to economic oppor...
This conceptual model, also known as the Spider Conceptual Framework, was developed by Lori Lambert and provides a framework for how to approach, conduct, share...
This newsletter explores how Health Impact Assessments (HIA) can offer a pathway to health equity by identifying potential health effects of proposed laws, regu...
This document provides an overview of Racial Equity Impact Assessments (REIA), how they are used, why they are needed, when they should be conducted, and what t...
This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process and supports implementation of similar approaches in other health ce...
This paper makes the case for why collective impact initiatives must address inequity to be successful, highlights a range of OYF efforts to place equity at the...
This report offers up a set of 10 design principles for online data tools intended to advance health equity. It was developed for researchers, advocates, commun...
This report is the first in a series examining important issues faced in advancing health equity. The purpose of this report is to stimulate discussion and prom...
This Equity Language Guide provides guidance, standard definitions, and terms to avoid that agencies can use in the creation of reports, forms, and other writte...
This toolkit is a compendium of tools, guides, and resources that help users improve health care quality and equity in their communities. It offers a framework ...
This webinar is part of County Health Rankings & Roadmaps’ special topic series, Health Equity and Social Solidarity in the Time of Pandemic: Strategies f...
This article describes how activists in Seattle are responding to gentrification by advancing racial equity through the King County Equity Now campaign.&nb...
Targeted Universalism–introduced by Berkeley professor john a. powell of the Othering and Belonging Institute–sets universal goals for the general p...
This issue brief describes three keys to build consensus around Targeted Universalism. These insights were identified through work with a long-term community in...
How we will experience coronavirus was in large part shaped before the pandemic. The policies and systems we inherited have had significant influence on the env...
This chart compares goals, methods, funding sources, and governing structures of initiatives in four states that were developed to address health equity and pop...
The Racial Equity Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, initiatives, programs, ...
Climate change and health inequities are the greatest global health threats of the 21st century. This report explores the ways that climate change, health, and ...
This tool provides data to track, measure, and make the case for racial equity and inclusive prosperity in America’s regions, and states, and nationwide. It c...