You cannot build a Race Equity Culture™ alone.
Operationalizing a Race Equity Culture™ in your organization means moving your entire team forward.
If you find yourself struggling to engage your entire team in moving this work forward, you aren’t alone.
Teams need an equity-based set of tools to build a Race Equity Culture™. These tools help take your passion for equity and create measurable and sustainable change in your organization through practical application.
Organizations are at a crossroads
Right now, many organizations are undergoing major transitions—rebuilding and strengthening team culture, working through leadership changes, re-prioritizing work after the pandemic, and preparing for upcoming elections are just a few of the uncertainties confronting our teams today.
And at the center of it all is one question: How can we build and strengthen our Race Equity Culture ™ amidst all of these changes?
Cohort Resources
The Organizational Equity Cohort (OEC) is designed to meet teams where they are in their equity journey and offers three critical resources:
Community
This cohort offers a community of peer organizations that you will learn from and with over the course of this 8-month program.
Toolbox
Your organization will access a toolbox of applied equity resources that allow you to take what you’ve learned about equity and put it into action in real-time as you’re making decisions.
Learning while doing
As a cohort member, you’ll create a project to work on during the 8 months of the program, and we’ll actively workshop how it’s going and provide coaching along the way to bring your project to completion.
What you learn as a part of this cohort will not only help you put equity into practice in your organization, but will also help you develop a stronger strategic direction to navigate whatever lies ahead.
A message from your facilitator, Nico Chin
How your organization will benefit
The Organizational Equity Cohort will help you deepen and expand your work in the following areas as you build a Race Equity Culture™. And, we know that sometimes leaders are on the fence about how to move your organization’s race equity journey forward. Here are a few things you can share with them about how your entire organization will benefit from your participation in the OEC.
Learning at Scale
Learning at Scale
We have been using more traditional, individualistic learning models (trainings, workshops, etc.) to learn about equity.
How can we transition to collective, team learning? What is a shared approach to organizational learning that reflects our values?
Relationship-Building
Relationship-Building
We understand that relationships are the heart of equity work.
How do we strengthen or transform our relationships to deepen our equity work? What new relationships do we need to nurture?
Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership
Our current structures were not built to steward equity.
How might we adjust or add to them to center our equity values?
Setting Our Next Goals
Setting Our Next Goals
We’ve accomplished our initial equity goals, and we don’t know how to continue the work.
What are the next race equity goals we can set for our team?
Building Systems
Building Systems
We are ready to begin integrating equity into the DNA of our team, one step at a time.
What systems (structures, policies, practices) might we need to establish to embody a Race Equity Culture™ in our organization?
Who should join the Organizational Equity Cohort?
Each organization will send a committed team of two or three people.
Participants should include decision-makers who have:
- Enough positional power to shape policy and practices
- The ability to allocate resources
Participants include CEOs, Executive Directors, Board Members, Program Directors, Inspection Directors, and Human Resource Directors.
If you’re part of a smaller organization and are interested in participating, we invite you to send two people, and to consider including high-engagement volunteers or board members who have a role in shaping the decisions at your organization.
Meet Your Facilitator
Nico Chin (she/her)
Nico’s passion is helping teams discover new ways to work together at the intersection of identity, strategy and team development. Her goal is to reshape behaviors, learning techniques and mindsets to maximize the impact of our work in the world.
“Nico has taught our team how to see inequity and to uncover its many layers and dimensions. Not only does this work have the potential to have a positive impact for patients, but it also generates hope among our team and energy to advocate for equity.”
~ Liz Charles McGough, Director of Outreach and Deputy Director, Maine Mobile Health Program
Take the next step in building a Race Equity Culture™
Many organizations start their equity learning journey by sending staff to workshops and trainings, and encouraging individual contributors on their teams to learn about equity.
Once that phase of work has established team alignment on why equity matters, the next step is to take organization-wide action on your commitment to equity.
The Organizational Equity Cohort can help by providing:
- Real-time coaching
- Peer learning and sharing opportunities
- Resources, tools and examples from other organizations
- Expert and community support while you work on a project for your organization, from conception to completion
Pricing
The cost for this 8-month long Organizational Equity Cohort is based on your organization’s budget (or asset base for foundations):
| Budget | Organizational Equity Cohort |
|---|---|
| Nonprofits with annual budgets of less than $1M | $5,000 |
| Nonprofits with annual budgets of $1-3.9M | $6,500 |
| Foundations with assets less than $10M; Nonprofits with annual budgets from $4-9.9M | $9,000 |
| For profits/foundations with assets $10M+; Nonprofits with annual budgets $10M+ | $11,000 |
| All for-profit companies | $15,000 |
| Budget |
|---|
| Nonprofits with annual budgets of less than $1M $5,000 |
| Nonprofits with annual budgets of $1-3.9M $6,500 |
| Foundations with assets less than $10M; Nonprofits with annual budgets from $4-9.9M $9,000 |
| For profits/foundations with assets $10M+; Nonprofits with annual budgets $10M+ $11,000 |
| All for-profit companies $15,000 |
“As a coalition, we are excited to share the insights and tools we are now using with many other organizations in the organic community. We believe the impact will extend beyond our staff team. One unexpected benefit of participating in the cohort is that some of the tools we’ve started using to help us be more impactful in our equity work are helping us be more impactful in all areas of our work to advance organic agriculture.”
~ Abby Young Blood, Executive Director, National Organics Coalition
Our best work
happens in community
Connect with values-aligned practitioners to deepen your skills, explore how to
navigate the shifting landscape on equity work, and build a community of support.
January 15, 2025 (12-4 pm ET)
February 12, 2025 (12-4 pm ET)
March 19, 2025 (1-4 pm ET)
April 9, 2025 (1-4 pm ET)
May 21, 2025 (1-4 pm ET)
June 18, 2025 (1-4 pm ET)
August 20, 2025 (1-4 pm ET)
September 17, 2025 (1-4 pm ET)
All sessions will be held from 2 – 4 pm ET (11 am – 1 pm PT / 12 – 2 pm MT / 1 – 3 pm CT).
Details
Applications will be accepted until November 1, 2024 at 8 pm ET (5 pm PT / 6 pm MT / 7 pm CT)
Applicants will be notified by November 15, 2024 if they've been invited to the cohort.
The program runs from January through September 2025.
In alignment with values that guide how members of the DEPn Leadership Group share resources, higher fees for organizational practitioners enable independent practitioners to participate at a significantly reduced rate.
Let’s enter the next phase of this work together
How your leadership team understands its role in stewarding and implementing equity is critically important to building Race Equity Culture™. The Organizational Equity Cohort will guide your team through this important phase of your equity journey.