Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resource Library
DEI Resources
Resource databases:
- Council of Nonprofits
- Nonprofit Learning Lab
- Candid
- Racial Equity Tools
- SHRM Implicit Bias Resource Guide
- Public Health Resources for Understanding Environmental Racism
Toolkits:
- Equity Toolkit (Kent County ENTF)
- Racial Equity Toolkit (Housing Development Consortium)
- Centering Racial Equity in Data (AISP)
- Grant making with a racial equity lens (GrantCraft)
Self-paced courses:
- Incorporating an Equity Lens into your Hiring Processes (self-paced | 1.5 hours)
- Diversity and Inclusion: Walking the Talk (self-paced | 1-2 hours)
- Designing Equity-Centered Organizational Values (self-paced | 1.5 hours)
- Shifting the Narrative to Advance Racial Equity (self-paced | 1.5 hours)
Articles:
The field
- Race, Gender, and Equity in Community Development (Urban)
- How White People Conquered the Nonprofit Industry (NPQ)
- Racial Diversity in Community Development Leadership: A Roundtable Discussion on the Field’s Past, and Its Future (Shelterforce)
- Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America’s History Of Discrimination (NPR)
- Equitable Development as a Tool to Advance Racial Equity (GARE)
Hiring and organizational culture
- Nonprofits So White: Race to Lead Report
- Retention Practices for an Equitable Board Room
- 5 Steps to Improve Diversity Recruiting
- Racial Diversity in Community Development Leadership: A Roundtable Discussion on the Field’s Past, and Its Future
- White Supremacy Culture Checklist
- A Checklist for Inclusive Hiring
Books:
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Mehrsa Baradaran)
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Keeanga Taylor)
- From The War on Poverty to the War on Crime (Elizabeth Hinton)
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Harriet Washington)
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Kat Holmes)
- How to be an Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)
- Race Talk & The Conspiracy of Silence (Derald Wing Sue)
- Me & White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
- Evicted (Matthew Desmond)
- The Color of Law (Richard Rothstein)