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Implicit Bias
Racial Equity and Cultural Competency
LGBTQIA+
Ability
Gender
Human Resources and Inclusive Workplaces
Webinars, Videos, and Podcasts
Books
Other Organizations and Research Collections
- Project Implicit: Online Self Assessments
- How to Make the Implicit Explicit … and Increase Your Team’s Ability to Get Excellent Results
- Tools for Organizations - Bias Interrupters
- Don't Talk Implicit Bias Without Talking Structural Racism
Racial Equity and Cultural Competency
- Racial Equity and Inclusion Action Guide
- Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Five Stages Toward Cultural Competence
- The 10Cs: A Model of Diversity Awareness and Social Change
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Understanding Cultural Competency in Experiential Environmental Education Programs
- Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
- The US Farm Bill - Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System
- Food First Background on Racism in the Food System
- Why Hunger: Agroecology, Putting Food Sovereignty into Action
- Who Owns the Land? Agricultural Land Ownership by Race/Ethnicity
- Land and Power, Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans
- 3 Ways to Test for Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency
- By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
- Where Is The Black Blueberries for Sal?
- Working on cultural competency: Being the only one in the room.
- Why cultural competence?
- Explaining white privilege to a broke white person.
- The invisible backpack of able-bodied privilege checklist
- Personal Privilege Profile from the Interaction Institute for Social Change
- Scientists show how we start stereotyping the moment we see a face
- 6 more landmarks that should have their Indigenous names restored
- 40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
- Progressive Governance Can Turn the Tide for Black Farms, Center for American Progress
- Tools for Addressing White Dominant Culture
LGBTQIA+
- Organizational Assessment Specific to LGBTQ Equality
- Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your “Hello My Name Is” Name Tags
- Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Ability
- Wheelchair Hike Handout
- Dyslexia isn’t a disease; it’s a community
- Should You Use Person-First or Identity-First Language?
- Why Person-First Language Doesn’t Always Put the Person First
- 19 Examples of Ability Privilege
Gender
Human Resources and Inclusive Workplaces
- A Model for Personal Change
- Hiring and Partnering with Inclusive Vendors and Consultants
- Assumptions and Guidelines for meetings and training
- Denver Foundation Discussion Forum Notes - Including barriers to service, recruiting board members of color, volunteers and donors of color, hiring diverse populations, sustaining inclusiveness work and adapting roles
- Sample Non-Discrimination Policies
- Three Paradigms for Diversity Change Leaders
- Hiring Rubric Starter Kit
- Mitigate Bias in Hiring With a Simple Rubric
- Using Fair Process to Make Better Decisions
- “That’s how we’ve always done it!” A Guide to Addressing Preferences, Traditions, and Requirements
- Tips for Writing SMARTIE Goals
- SMARTIE Goals Worksheet
- SMARTIE Goals Bank - Examples for Fundraising, Communications and More
- Resources on Sexual Harassment and Assault
- How To Challenge Ourselves to Grow As Allies
- Becoming a More Diverse Nonprofit: Make Your Values Tangible
- Enhancing Instruction to Connect with Diverse Audiences
Webinars, Videos, and Podcasts
- LGBTQ Best Practices: Classroom Culture and Curriculum
- Becoming an Eco-JEDI
- Disability Sensitivity Training Video
- African Americans in the Great Outdoors, Dr. Carolyn Finney
- Arc of Justice: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Beloved Community
- Peanut Butter, Jelly, and Racism
- The Danger of a Single Story
- Cracking the codes: Joy DeGruy, a trip to the grocery store
- How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
- Can We Talk About Whiteness? Black and Blue, and A Letter From Young Asian-Americans to Their Families About Black Lives Matter
Books
- Legacy on the Land, by Audrey and Frank Peterman
- Black Faces, White Spaces, by Carolyn Finney
- Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places, by Dudley Edmundson
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, by Monica White
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
- The Color of Food, Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming, by Natasha Bowens
- In the Shadow of Slavery, Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the New World, by Judith Carney
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski
- Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, & Practice, by Milton Bennett
- Privilege, Power, and Difference, by Allen Johnson
- White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
- Me and White Supremacy: A 28 Day Challenge to Combat Racism, by Layla Saad
- Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, by Gregory Cajete
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Other Organizations and Research Collections
- Center for Diversity and the Environment
- eePRO Group: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Urban Environmental Education Collective Facebook Page
- The Management Center - Equity and Inclusion Tools
- NewSchools Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources
- Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project-Environmental Education Resources
- Teaching Tolerance
- The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project
- Youth Outside
- The Avarna Group
- The Venture Out Project