Working on Internal Equity Together
On February 4, over 30 members and Mission Capital staff gathered to discuss learn more about nonprofits in our community working internally to incorporate equity into their organizations. Panelists included Ronda Rutledge, CEO, & Naomi Silverman, Development and Communications Manager, of Sustainable Food Center, Rachel Koay, Director of Health and Nutrition of Feeding Texas, and Madge Vasquez, CEO, & Kyla Harrison, Consultant Fellow, of Mission Capital.
Even though each organization is at a different stage in their work, they all shared insight on the introduction of the work, and strategies for implementing an equity lens into daily work and mission alignment. Both panelists and audience members shared valuable resources and suggestions for support, and we’re sharing them below for your reference!
Resources:
Consultants & Facilitators
- Quantum Possibilities – Martha Ramos Duffer, Psy.D & Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
- Paula X. Rojas, Community Equity Strategy Consultant
- ProInspire – Monisha Kapila
Trainings
- Beyond Diversity
- Undoing Racism
- Race Forward – Building Racial Equity Trainings
- Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation – Bread for the World
Assessments/Guides/Books
- Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations – Center to Advance Racial Equity (p 62-67)
- Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
- Equity In the Center
- White Fragility – Robin di Angelo
- Equity Action Team Dashboard – City of Austin
- Human Rights Campaign – Healthcare Equality Index
- Building Movement Project
- fakequity.com
- My Grandmother’s Hands
- White Supremacy Culture
- Meyer Memorial Trust
Local Community Resources
- Community Health Champions
- Community Advocacy and Healing Project
- Undoing White Supremacy Austin
- YWCA Austin – Dialogues on Issues of Race and Discrimination
- E3 Alliance – working on equity rubric
Additional resource list of local consultants
- SILT – Sisters in Leadership Training
- Charlotte Caples
- Denisha Jenkins & Kardia Advisory Group
- Kellee Coleman & Embody Transformation
- Eric Polite
Learn more about Mission Capital’s own internal equity work and Equity Advancement Team.
We’ll share more about our internal equity work as we have more to share, but if you’d like to reach out regarding this blog or your organization’s own equity work send us an email.