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“Power is, first of all, relational. . . Power is not about the rule of law, institutions, society, or the state. These are simply the dead forms, or artifacts, that result from past power-laden interactions, or confrontations. . . Power is exercised, not acquired. Everyday interactions contain aims and objectives that make the exercise of power visible and understandable. Power is also never absolute.”
What is your current racial equity goal?
Build Organizational Foundation
Collective (Un)Learning
Racial Equity Assessments for a Baseline
Racial Equity Foundational Workshops for Knowledge Building & Tools
Racial Equity Skills Lab 1.0 for Practice
Shift Organizational Power
Collective Practice & Action
Racial Justice Visioning for a Shared Goal
Racial Equity Skills Lab 2.0 for Tailored Organizational Action
Racially Equitable Supervisor Series 101 & 102
Racial Equity Leadership Guidance for Growth & Progress
Train-the-Facilitator Series for Building Internal Capacity
Transform Organizational Structures
Collective Design
Racial Equity Custom Tools, Frameworks, & Research
Explore Shared Leadership Structures a Racial Justice Analysis
Design for Racial Equity Labs
Racial Equity Skills Lab 3.0
Build Organizational Foundation - Collective (Un)Learning
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Organizational Racial Equity Assessments
Gain an Organizational Snapshot
We start our work with your organization by partnering with you to complete an Organizational Racial Equity Assessment. This will give the organization’s leadership and staff a snapshot of its strengths and areas of growth.
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Racial Equity Foundational Workshops
Build a Common Understanding of Race, Racism, & Racial Equity
Equity Matters has over two decades of providing workshops. Our foundational workshop is where most of our clients start. We customize our workshops to meet your organization’s needs, including using data from the organizational assessment. The workshops allow us to tailor our foundational content for staff.
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Racial Equity Skills Lab 1.0
Practice Using the Foundational Workshop Tools
The Racial Equity Skills Labs are intermediate workshop sessions. In these sessions, members will be able to deepen their analysis of racial equity and problem solve work or real-life problems. Participants must complete the foundational workshop before participating in the skills labs.
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Identifying & Addressing Anti-Blackness
Description coming soon.
Shift Organizational Power - Collective Practice & Action
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Racial Justice Visioning
Create a Racial Justice Vision & Path
Has your organization built a strong foundation and common understanding of racial equity? The racial justice visioning sessions support transforming learning into a path for action. In these sessions participants establish a racial justice vision and identify organizational focus areas of action for the immediate future.
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Racial Equity Skills Lab 2.0
Practice Using a Process to ‘Operationalize’ Racial Equity
The Racial Equity Skills Lab 2.0 supports making an organizational racial justice vision come alive. Work teams come together to practice a process to identify their specific role, desired outcomes, and the daily actions that activate racial equity. Teams gain a framework and engage in the practice of identifying the daily actions and interactions that support racial equity (or fakequity - fake equity).
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Racially Equitable Supervisor Series
Support Supervisors to Integrate Equity
Supervisor 101: Building Our Skills to Address Racial Bias in the Workplace
These workshops aim to leverage the supervisor's role and positional power to normalize a culture of addressing bias.
Supervisor 102: Becoming Racially Equitable Team Leaders
These workshops deepen our ablity to integrate racial equity into our daily practices as supervisors.
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Racial Equity Leadership Guidance
Support Leaders to Integrate Equity
Looking for leadership racial equity “coaching?” How about trying our collective cohort approach? Our team is experienced at working with leaders at different levels within an organization to build racial equity leadership skills. We’ve worked with boards, Executive Directors, department directors, and staff working directly with clients to set achievable goals and direction for deeper racial equity change.
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Train-the-Facilitator Series
Build Internal Capacity
The Train-the-Facilitator series is designed to deepen conversations within organizations. This series of workshops is for organizations who are ready to deepen their work. In these workshops, we will train leaders* to hold their own conversations with their peers about what it means to lead for racial equity.
*Leaders can be at any level of the organization, change needs to come from all levels within an organization.
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Racialized Trust Assessment & Support
Description coming soon.
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Staff of Color Organizing Space
Description coming soon
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Racial Equity Values in Action
Description coming soon
Transform Organizational Structures - Collective Design
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Racial Equity Custom Tools, Frameworks, & Research
Description coming soon.
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Shared Leadership Structures: A Racial Justice Analysis
Description coming soon.
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Design for Racial Equity
This is at the heart of Equity Matter’s work with you. We will help you design your work to improve your racial equity outcomes. We coach, cheerlead, and help you uncover new ways of working to support racial justice.
Our Clients
We focus primarily on working with non-profits, philanthropy, and government organizations in the health and human services, education, and environment sectors.
We do not work with individuals and rarely work with for-profit businesses.