DEI Toolkit 2: Getting Started will help you take basic steps to move your organization forward towards activating your DEI values. You’ll receive guidance on how to craft your organizational DEI statement, establish a working group to direct, facilitate, and evaluate your organizational progress and goals, and convene affinity groups to foster more nuanced, supportive spaces for consensus building and problem solving towards change.
About the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit
Activating and fully integrating your organization’s values for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) will increase your organizational resilience, promote more ethical community partnerships, and increase your reputability and leadership in the field. Our 6-part DEI toolkit series provides frameworks and guidance so you can thoughtfully address historic inequities while building better practices and increasing your organization’s ability to work for a just and healthy world everyone can enjoy.
Each toolkit is themed for accessibility and ease of use. You’ll find webinars, workshops, guides, templates, and activities to increase your organization’s readiness, competency, and capacity for diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout all components of your work.
TREC is committed to growing our offerings through these toolkits, so please check back in for new additions throughout the year.
Resources in this Collection
Connecting to your DEI “Why”
Everyone has a unique connection to environmental work. The following writing exercise helps you identify how you came to value the pursuit of DEI in the environmental field, what keeps you motivated, and what you need to stay resilient when challenges inevitably arise.
Crafting a DEI Case for Change and DEI Statement
Why – why is DEI important to your organization, and What – what are your organization’s specific DEI commitments. TREC clients will gain knowledge and skills on how to craft a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement.
Webinar Guide: Crafting a DEI Statement & Case for Change
This resource serves as a guide for discussion and self-reflection for the webinar Crafting a DEI Case for Change and DEI Statement.
Decision Making for Equity and Inclusion
Decision-making practices reflect an organization’s equity and inclusion values. They also reveal how authoritative a.k.a. commanding power is distributed throughout an organization. Use this decision-making mode graphic to investigate how…
Decision-Making for Equity and Inclusion Activity
This resource includes two sequential exercises to learn about equity-minded leadership and how to embed it into your decision-making. It is meant for individuals who are key decision-makers within their organization such as an executive director or program manager.
Achieving Your DEI Vision and Goals: Change Team Strategy
This webinar introduces the concept and practice of an internal DEI change team. These teams are comprised of current employees who create guideposts and steps along the path to meet organizational equity and inclusion goals.
Change Team Core Processes and Tools: Set-Up and Management Checklist
Change teams require thoughtful planning and communication. Use the following checklists to create the change team charter and core management tools and processes.
Milestones for DEI Change Teams
Use this guide to assess and track the progress of cultural change initiatives that are guided by a DEI change team. It is organized in three common phases: the foundational phase, the experimentation phase, and the integration phase. In all three phases, it is critical to keep the staff and board informed of progress and to eliminate roadblocks. The Executive Director, senior leadership team, and Board of Directors must also sponsor and support in all phases.
Change Team DEI Development Plan Template
DEI team workplans or development plans bring clarity to expectations, enrich feedback and review processes, and help align each team member’s tasks with the DEI team goals. Create a work plan using this sample DEI Development plan template.