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This 38-page addition concentrates on external engagement practices.
To advance racial equity, there is work for white people and people of color to do separately and together. Caucuses provide spaces for people to work within their own racial/ethnic groups.
Heard the term “implicit bias” but not totally sure what it means? Interested in reading the seminal studies? Just like TedTalks? Animated videos? This is the place for you.
Core DEI competencies are interrelated and the development of these competencies are often interrelated.
Created by the Circuit Trails in the greater Philadelphia region, this library includes materials related to equity in trail planning and maintenance.
Adapted by Western States Center, based on work done by changework and South Asian Network, this tool helps organizations better understand how they are already bringing a racial justice lens to their work and what additional steps are needed.
Created by Bread for the Journey: An Online Companion, this chart illustrates the steps through which an organization or institution develops anti-racist practices.
Language impacts people and workplaces every day. Language can make people feel like they belong, or be used to discriminate and advance divisiveness and inequity. Simply put, language matters. This playbook outlines how anti-Black racism manifests in language and lays out good practices for individuals and organizations to use language in ways that advance racial equity and inclusion.
This guidance document was put together as part of the Watershed Racial Justice Initiative in 2024 to help organizations start and sustain DEIJ commmittees.
The Dismantling Racism Project is part of Western States' RACE (Research and Action for Change and Equity) Program. Through training, strategizing and technical assistance, the Dismantling Racism Project is one strategy intended to increase the breadth and depth of racial justice work in the region through supporting organizations to build a shared analysis of race and racism, to engage in anti-racist organizational development and to move racial justice organizing campaigns.