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This webinar is going to be amazing! I hope you will consider joining Money Management Institute as George Spencer and Rachel Cheeks-Givan discuss important topics facing businesses today! #HBCU #TMCF #DEI

This webinar is going to be amazing! I hope you will consider joining Money Management Institute as George Spencer and Rachel Cheeks-Givan discuss important topics facing businesses today!

As we closed out 2024, one of my wishes for us all, was the opportunity to pause and rest and to begin 2025 from a space of restoration, stability, focus, and renewed diligence and discernment; ready to continue the crucial work of challenging oppressive systems and structures, building more equitable and inclusive practices, and advocating loudly for more intentional justice and care-filled approaches. January 2025 has been anything but stable or restorative, but it has demanded that we be focused, diligent, and discerning in how we choose to move through this moment. This period has also reinforced the reason why the work of anti-oppression & anti-racism, equity & inclusion, and justice & accountability remain ever more urgent and important. The Better Org was established in the summer of 2020, a period where we saw racial and social injustice and inequities take centre stage with COVID-19, the murder of George Floyd and marches for Black Lives and #RacialEquity, Black Squares and #hashtags, and a plethora of empty ‘pledges’.  Fast forward nearly five years, and whilst the broad-brush strokes of the external environment may have changed, the patterns and the colours of oppression remain the same; we see the normalisation of genocide and violence against Black and brown people, the reversal of legal protections for the most vulnerable in our societies, and the Overton window swing all the way to the political extreme right. To repeat something I said earlier: this is why the work of #AntiOppression & #AntiRacism, #Equity & #Inclusion, and #Justice & #Accountability remain ever more urgent and important. Our work at TBO is this work. Our purpose is to support organisations to create an internal and external cultural practice that is holistic, human-centered, care-filled, and which allows people to thrive and flourish. To do this we partner with organisations: to challenge the status quo; grow in awareness of how oppression, inequity, and injustice show up in their beliefs, behaviours, and practice; to define, forge, and walk along a better path to restoration, repair, and healing; and to create new ways of being that centre joy and liberation.  I am grateful for the work that we do at TBO, and for the campaigners, movement builders, funders, coalitions, research, advocacy and policy groups, and implementing organisations who have invited us to walk alongside them. As we collectively navigate this challenging terrain in 2025, I am honoured to continue work and walk with the TBO team, TBO associates, and existing client partners, and look forward to building new relationships with organisations who recognise the importance of forging ahead with the hard but necessary work of systemic transformation. If this sounds like your organisation, or if you want to learn more about our work at TBO please visit us here: www.thebetterorg.co.uk. We are looking forward to connecting with you. And remember, none of us are free until all of us are free.

Calling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocates and change makers : Join us for part 2 of our 3-part webinar series, "Facing Forward: Strategies for DEI Advocates in Challenging Times." During this webinar, CultureALL’s DEIB Business Consultant, Paula Bell, will lead a thought-provoking discussion on navigating the complexities of DEI work in today's challenging climate. Learn how to build stronger relationships with other DEI advocates in the face of adversity, while also gaining practical strategies to center marginalized voices in your conversations. Don’t worry if you missed part 1 of our series—this webinar is designed for anyone to join us at any point. This webinar is your opportunity to connect with fellow DEI changemakers and gain valuable insights to drive positive change. Register here: https://buff.ly/4bNRn3v CultureALL was founded in 2005. In honor of our incorporation year and the nearly 20 years of work we've been doing building a more inclusive Iowa, this webinar will only cost $20.05. #DEIB #DiversityEquityInclusion #Belonging #DEI #DEIAdvocacy

Calling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocates and change makers : Join us for part 2 of our 3-part webinar series, "Facing Forward: Strategies for DEI Advocates in Challenging Times." During this webinar, CultureALL’s DEIB Business Consultant, Paula Bell, will lead a thought-provoking discussion on navigating the complexities of DEI work in today's challenging climate. Learn how to build stronger relationships with other DEI advocates in the face of adversity, while also gaining practical strategies to center marginalized voices in your conversations. Don’t worry if you missed part 1 of our series—this webinar is designed for anyone to join us at any point. This webinar is your opportunity to connect with fellow DEI changemakers and gain valuable insights to drive positive change. Register here: https://buff.ly/4bNRn3v CultureALL was founded in 2005. In honor of our incorporation year and the nearly 20 years of work we've been doing building a more inclusive Iowa, this webinar will only cost $20.05. #DEIB #DiversityEquityInclusion #Belonging #DEI #DEIAdvocacy

When mission-driven anti-racism and race equity becomes more normalised in organisations, it signals deeper change in culture. Culture encompasses beliefs, values and practices. Culture is powerful as ideas and behaviours become second-nature and the ‘common sense’ way of doing things. While cultural shifts do not come easy, we know through the work of Sally Engle Merry that ‘as institutions … change, so do beliefs, values and practices.’ And civil society organisations that centre mission-driven race equity can transform culture and move us decisively towards anti-racist and life-affirming futures. To learn more about shifting institutional culture, mission-driven race equity and what it means for you and your organisation, please join our fourth Race Equity Session event from 10:30am-11:30am on 12 November 2024. You will find a friendly and stimulating setting. We’ll explore the topic with input from Sanjiv Lingayah, Home Truths 2 race equity lead, in conversation with a guest practitioner in a guilt-free, curiosity-driven and practical discussion with participants. We look forward to seeing you. Voice4Change England https://lnkd.in/eFNJe5-d

Had a great morning with Colleen James M.Ed and the Centre for Family Business - KW talking about how equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility can be incorporated into family businesses. I Sky Consulting focuses on putting EDIA into action by helping businesses grow and reach their strategic goals through practical advice, tools and resources. Contact us for more information. #deiinaction #familybusiness #consultant #makechange

Calling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocates and change makers : Join us for part 2 of our 3-part webinar series, "Facing Forward: Strategies for DEI Advocates in Challenging Times." During this webinar, CultureALL’s DEIB Business Consultant, Paula Bell, will lead a thought-provoking discussion on navigating the complexities of DEI work in today's challenging climate. Learn how to build stronger relationships with other DEI advocates in the face of adversity, while also gaining practical strategies to center marginalized voices in your conversations. Don’t worry if you missed part 1 of our series—this webinar is designed for anyone to join us at any point. This webinar is your opportunity to connect with fellow DEI changemakers and gain valuable insights to drive positive change. Register here: https://buff.ly/4bNRn3v CultureALL was founded in 2005. In honor of our incorporation year and the nearly 20 years of work we've been doing building a more inclusive Iowa, this webinar will only cost $20.05. #DEIB #DiversityEquityInclusion #Belonging #DEI #DEIAdvocacy

Calling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocates and change makers : Join us for part 2 of our 3-part webinar series, "Facing Forward: Strategies for DEI Advocates in Challenging Times." During this webinar, CultureALL’s DEIB Business Consultant, Paula Bell, will lead a thought-provoking discussion on navigating the complexities of DEI work in today's challenging climate. Learn how to build stronger relationships with other DEI advocates in the face of adversity, while also gaining practical strategies to center marginalized voices in your conversations. Don’t worry if you missed part 1 of our series—this webinar is designed for anyone to join us at any point. This webinar is your opportunity to connect with fellow DEI changemakers and gain valuable insights to drive positive change. Register here: https://buff.ly/4bNRn3v CultureALL was founded in 2005. In honor of our incorporation year and the nearly 20 years of work we've been doing building a more inclusive Iowa, this webinar will only cost $20.05. #DEIB #DiversityEquityInclusion #Belonging #DEI #DEIAdvocacy

Check out some reflections (below) wrapping up our 3-year tenure as Co-Chairs (w/ Vidhya Shanker, PhD & Elizabeth T.) for the American Evaluation Association Working Group focused on (including, not limited to) “DEI principles,” advocating for a general statement in all policy documents, the need for systemic change within the evaluation profession, particularly in how knowledge is produced and controlled, and the decentralization of power to address historical inequities and to ensure that minoritized and marginalized groups have a say in the production and application of knowledge. As this group transitions to a Task Force, we submitted a final report to AEA’s leadership & Board of Directors, reflecting on the process of building, and creating this statement, the involvement of various individuals and groups, and the specific context in shaping the content and direction of such efforts within AEA. The report, intended for a broad audience beyond AEA's BOD, emphasizes collective action and grassroots movements over top-down decisions -- applicable to all organizations. It highlights the need for consensus decision-making, which values dialogue and deep listening across differences, rather than majority rule that silences dissent. The newly developed Statement on Oppression & Resistance calls for evaluation to recognize and change its systemic effects on social, political, economic, and natural systems. It advocates for a shift in narrative, questioning who controls knowledge production and suggesting a move towards transformative justice, which seeks to end cycles of oppression. Thank you to all working group members who contributed and served over three years: Asma M. Ali, PhD, Ayesha Boyce, Ph.D., Camille Lemieux, David Sul, Ed.D., Diana Lemos, Donna Mertens, Dylan Felt, Esther Nolton, PhD, MEd, James Groh, Jen Heeg, PhD, Kantahyanee Murray, PhD, Libby Smith, Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA, Mark Parman, Stephen Maack, Zachary Grays II, Leah Peoples, Damon King, and Anisha Zimmerman-Lewis for your leadership. Vidhya Shanker, PhD & Elizabeth T. -- thank you for your friendship, affiliation, connection, support, memories, understanding, and laughter -- what a gift to serve with you and lay down the armor from time to time...and just "be." The first post during our designated week is below (from 7/28); a new post from our WG will be posted each day this week until Saturday.