These featured resources are meant to help provide access to useful educational interactive tools, webinars, worksheets and articles. A brief description and direct link to each resource can be found below. Additionally, for your convenience a google drive folder with downloaded materials has been provided for by and for each competency area.
Access Google Drive Folder: Race, Ethnicity, Equity & Inclusion
Resource Page, Greater Buffalo Racial Equity Roundtable
An extensive listing of webinars, documentaries/videos, books and other resources curated by the Racial Equity Roundtable.
Resources:
Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide, Nonprofit Association of Oregon- PDF Toolkit
Comprehensive (30 page) interactive tool to help you learn about equity and inclusion and how to apply it to your work. Guiding nonprofits through five steps with appendix worksheet:
- Consider your diversity
- Check assumptions
- Ask about Inclusion
- Apply to your work
- Be a Change Agent- Take Action
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Assessment Tool, Michigan Nonprofit Association- PDF Assessment Tool
Designed to help organizations assess their capacity and progress in demonstrating best practices in diversity, inclusion and equity. Two forms, one for board members and one for executives and staff; score the extent to which the organization effectively demonstrates each best practice on a four-point scale. Categories include:
- Organizational Development
- Internal Systems
- Governance
- Human Resources
- Strategy
- Performance Management
- Additional Activities
Related Articles:
The Power of Shared Language for Advancing Racial Equity, Race Matters Institute of JustPartners, Inc.
Shared Language is one of the core building blocks for racially equitable work. Without it, we cannot assume that we are referring to the same issues when we use the same terms.
The Curb-Cut Effect, Stanford Social Innovation Review
The well-known 2017 article demonstrates how developing policies to create equity can improve everyone’s lives; through the simple example of curb cuts.
Books:
Anti-Racism and Social Justice Books available through the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, curated by the James Prendergast Library
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Women, Race & Class, Angela Davis
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
- White Fragility: Why its so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
- Tears We Cannot Stop a Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson
- Bad Feminist: Essays, Roxane Gay
- Nobody: Causalities of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, Marc Lamont Hill
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Bell Hooks
- How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racists Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
- When they Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
- Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen
- Sister Outsiders: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement, Wesley Lowery
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, Jonathan Metzl
- So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
- Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy, Darryl Pinckney
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F. Saad
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald T. Takaki
- Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, Alice Walker