Many organizations come to us looking to change their organization in order to be more aligned with anti-racism and racial equity. We have created a comprehensive process that we are able to tailor to the needs of each organization. Below are the 3 components of that process.

Racial Equity Assessment

We start the racial equity planning process with a racial equity assessment to help you understand where you are now. Assessments can be shaped to fit your scope and budget, but often include an analysis of existing policies and procedures as well as a combination of interviews, focus groups, and/or surveys with groups like the board, staff, constituents, and partners. Based on your chosen scope, we can develop an appropriate plan and timeline.

Following the assessment period, CommunityConnective will share insights to help you understand how current policies and procedures support or hinder racial equity goals (or other types of goals) as well as how board, staff, constituents, and coalition partners view the organization in relation to those goals. We submit a written report that shares the themes of what we learned through our assessment, what these findings mean, and our recommendations for possible focus areas as the organization plans for the future.

Racial Equity Workshops

In order for your organization to fully embrace the role race plays in your internal and external work, it will be critical to embark on a learning journey. Therefore, we encourage organizations to include workshops as a part of their planning process. 

All of our workshops are three hours long, are capped at 25 live participants, and take place over Zoom. We can also work together to figure out the best plan for sharing recordings with your team if that is desired.

We offer a series of three or four core workshops that will set your team up for success as you work to align with the values of racial equity. The topics we cover include vocabulary and concepts, the history of race/racism in the United States, and helping your organization connect that history to where we are today by exploring the characteristics of default whiteness and white supremacy culture so that you have a framework to help you spot racism in action and begin to flip the script.

We are also able to provide other facilitated trainings and learning opportunities on a number of different topics included below. 

Creating a Racial Equity Plan

Following the assessment and workshops, organizations are ready to engage in creating a plan to embed racial equity throughout the organization. Through a highly collaborative process we draw upon what was learned in the assessment and workshop phases of the project to outline priorities, goals, and objectives that align with that learning. Additionally, we work with the organization to create an implementation plan that includes accountability measures, timelines, success measures, and more to ensure that the plan actually happens and doesn’t simply gather dust sitting on the shelf. 

We are able to provide facilitated trainings and learning opportunities on a variety of topics, either as a part of a planning process or as a separate component for an organization.The workshops described above in Racial Equity Planning (vocabulary and concepts, history of race/racism in the US, and default whiteness/white supremacy culture) can be requested as a separate engagement without the planning process. Below is a partial list of other possible facilitated trainings and learning opportunities we can provide. However, if you have additional topics you are interested in, please reach out to ask if we are able to accommodate your needs. 

• Building accountability
• Antidotes to white supremacy culture
• Consensus decision making
• Conflict resolution
• Coaching (for leadership or other staff)
• Racial identity caucuses
• Racial healing circles