How can leaders and organizations communicate and move towards increased equity and inclusion?
The following guide includes resources and tools to establish, implement, and sustain their work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The guide includes how to begin your DEI journey, guidance around designing change processes, facilitating hard conversations across difference, as well as information on applying and integrating DEI principles into day-to-day work.
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DEI Toolkit 1: Foundations
Foundations provides historical context, clarification, and activities to promote essential competencies so that your organization can build stronger consensus towards the changes you want to make. Whether you are just getting started or decades into your DEI work, this toolkit is a cornerstone for conservation leaders to build from and return to.
Working Across Generations, we can work it out!
Unlocking the strengths of multi-generational workplaces is essential, and sometimes challenging, work. In this webinar, we will explore practices to build understanding, slay age-ist stereotypes, and leverage the value of diversity across decades.
US Conservation and Colonialism Timeline
The US Conservation and Colonialism Timeline was collated from published scholarly research, journalism, and community-led historical recovery efforts. It was created to support environmental and conservation organizations committed to fulfilling their missions through a justice lens.
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.
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Activate your DEI Values
DEI Toolkit 2: Getting Started
Getting Started will help you take basic steps to move your organization forward towards activating your DEI values.
Crafting Your DEI Statement and Making a Case for Change
This resource includes a multi-part exercise to draft an organizational DEI commitment statement with staff input. Through the exercises, you’ll explore why DEI is important to your organization and begin to outline your commitments to diversity and inclusion.
Achieve your DEI Vision
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.
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.
Put DEI into Practice
DEI Toolkit 3: Internal Culture, Practices, and Policies
Internal Culture, Practices, and Policies offers clear guidance and templates to help you responsibly promote DEI practices within your organization. Learn more about inclusive hiring guidelines, equitable compensation practices, and view template staff policies.
Anti-Blackness and Conservation: Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Conservation
Learn how anti-Black racism relates to other forms of oppression, how it shows up in conservation and environmental movements, and what you can do to dismantle it at your organization.
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.
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