Business
Case for Diversity
- Identify
your business case for diversity; discuss it at board and staff meetings.
(See Diversity Management:
Key to CCE's Future)
Vision
- Articulate
your vision; include clear language about diversity in your
mission, vision, and goals.
- Create
a staff-wide understanding of diversity vision and
create a common language for discussing it.
- Use
vision in strategy and plan of work development.
- Assess
your culture and atmosphere in relation to your
vision.
An
Intentional Process
- How
you do things is as important as what you
do...the process
must reflect the intended outcome.
- Issues
of diversity can be addressed and openly discussed.
- Conscious
thought is given to make all employees
and volunteers feel valued and included.
- Support
openness and risk taking by staff;
support a willingness to learn
and make mistakes, encourage
new ideas.
- Provide
expectations, training, resources,
and support for employees to
increase
outreach to diverse
audiences.
Policies,
Procedures, and Practices
- Use Affirmative
Action and ADA requirements as
a baseline for good
organizational management.
- Identify
employee, board
member, and volunteer's role in Affirmative
Action and
ADA
compliance.
- Create
recruitment
procedures and search committee
training
with diversity
goals in mind.
- Include
diversity goals in employee job
descriptions,
performance
appraisals, and employee
development
planning.
Program/Service
Delivery Practices and Outreach
- Develop
relationships
with
and learn from
people
in underrepresented groups.
- Attend
community organization
meetings, health
fairs, and
other events in underrepresented
community .
- Identify
why underrepresented groups don't
participate or apply
to work or volunteer
with organization
- Evaluate
programs in light
of who they serve,
program content, how/when/where
programs
are delivered, and how
programs could
be more inclusive.
Know your community:
- What
are the demographics of
your community?
- What
are the demographics
of your customers?
- Assess
your resources and
materials
for inclusion
of people from
under-represented groups.
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