DEI Resources

DEI Webinar Series

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• Part 1: Tough Conversations in Donor Relations (2021)

• Part 2: Moving from Conversation to Action (2022)

• Part 3: Successes and Stumbling Blocks (2023)
   

Free DEI Resources

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• DRG's Guide on Unearned Titles and Salutations

• DRG's Scholarship Guidance for DEI

• Black Lives Matter: Our Message of Solidarity

• Our Commitment to Black Lives Matter (And How You Can Join Us)

• Video Series: Be The Change: Speak Up, Take Action A series of important conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion (2020)

• Building Diverse Teams

• A List of Anti-Racism Resources

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Our Recommendations for Books, Articles, and Shows to Educate:

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• How to Be an Anti-Racist by historian Ibram Kendi

• Biased by social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt

• White Fragility by multicultural education scholar Robin DiAngelo

• My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

• A River of No Return by Cleveland Sellers

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not

• Why White People Stay Silent on Racism, and What to Read First​

• Blackish

• Dear White People

• 13th

• The Long Walk Home

• Eyes on the Prize

• American Son

• When They See Us

• Crash

• Remember the Titans

• Do the Right Thing

• When the Levees Broke

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Hiring Resources

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• American Association of Blacks in Higher Education

• Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education – specifically this page

• American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

• Full List of HBCUs

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Other Examples & Resources​

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• Colorado State University's Note of Solidarity

• Colorado State University's Resource Page

• UC Davis Message from Leadership

• Have nonprofit and philanthropy become the “white moderate” that Dr. King warned us about? By Vu Le, Nonprofit AF

• The Power of Perception: A Beginner’s Guide to Asset-Framing: Defining People by Their Aspirations and Contributions Instead of Their Deficits by Trabian Shorters

• Storytelling and Racism, Ignited Fundraising, Lori Jacobwith

• First Steps in Examining Our NP Stories for Racism, Ignited Fundraising, Lori Jacobwith 

• 4 Resources to Help Shift the Narrative for Equity in Nonprofit Communications, Mission Minded

• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (book) by Edgar Villanueva 

• The Issue of Racism in the fundraising profession, AFP Article 

• USC's Diversity Toolkit

• How Canva got ahead in diversity and inclusion [an interview with COO, Cliff Obrecht]

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