Services

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion.

Philosophical Pillars

 

DEI Service Menu

  • Equity audits, listening sessions, surveys, and interviews to recognize strengths, identify equity challenges, evaluate policies and practices, and set improvement priorities.

  • Comprehensive, coordinated, and continual DEI professional development with tailored, community-specific curricula. Foundational equity training and workshops that meet specific organizational needs.

  • Organizational structure (e.g., change committees, Employee Resource Groups/Affinity Groups, Equity Task Forces) to leverage collective impact, catalyze action, promote ongoing learning, and provide venues for colleagues to contribute their expertise and perspectives to DEI policies and programs.

  • DEI project development, equity toolkits, and operational change informed by data and the communities most impacted by oppression, racism, and inequity.

  • Support for proactive recruiting strategies, inclusive hiring practices, transparent promotional pathways, formalized mentorship, and cultural change that promotes employee retention and DEI.

  • Inclusive leadership coaching to lead with transparency and vision, language and behaviors that clearly articulate and align with DEI values, and the courage and strength needed to steer into discomfort and make transformative organizational and societal change.

  • Holistic offerings (e.g., meditation, yoga, qigong, and other somatic programming) to heal from the visceral impact and legacy of oppression, racism, and other intergenerational trauma and enhance participants’ resiliency, wellbeing, and capacity to handle discomfort.

  • Values articulation, goal setting, agile strategic planning, equity frameworks, and organizational roadmaps that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

  • Scaffolding and incubation of pilot projects and other programming with interim leadership, co-facilitation, coaching, and thought-partnership.

  • Conflict resolution, mediation, restorative justice, bystander interventions, and communication coaching for healing.

 
 

Change Process

  • Listen and Discover by facilitating climate assessments to take the pulse on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues within the organization and set improvement priorities.

    • Listening sessions

    • DEI surveys

    • Individual interviews

    • Equity audits

  • Educate to calibrate concepts and scaffold conversations about DEI, foster anti-racist transformation, and inform equity action that aligns with the organization’s values and furthers its mission.

    • Foundational equity education

    • Coordinated, continual, and comprehensive training and workshops

  • Innovate to create, pilot, and replicate best/promising practices that support diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    • Mindfulness for resiliency and capacity-building

    • Cutting-edge recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and pathways of advancement

  • Coordinate staff, board, and other stakeholders to create and strengthen organizational structures and partnerships to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    • Collective Impact

    • Equity frameworks

    • Strategic planning

    • Employee Resource Groups

  • Operationalize* moving from theory to action by using data and DEI tools to develop and implement policies, programs, and procedures across the organization that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    • Equity toolkits

    • Impact-driven DEI programming

    • Implementation coaching

    *Builds on national best practices piloted by GARE.

Key Practices

  • Center

    Honor the experiences and engage the leadership of people and groups most impacted.

  • Resilience

    Grow institutional capability and resilience to support a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

  • Equity Lens

    Implement an equity lens in policy-making, planning, and program implementation.

  • Healing

    Courageously examine, be accountable, and heal.

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