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The Awa Equity Audit
Beloved Community’s Equity Audit allows organizations to assess equity within their institutional practices and identify how they are performing on diversity, equity, and inclusion to help prioritize the areas that will result in measurable systemic change. The Awa Equity Audit is designed to serve all kinds of organizations - from non-profits, corporations & companies to K-12 schools, colleges & universities, and even public agencies and municipalities. The Equity Audit can be used for entire organizations and even single departments, teams, or programs.
Are you encouraging this toxic behavior at work?
Code-switching has become a way for people to navigate uncomfortable places where their truest, most authentic selves have not been accepted by mainstream society, particularly in work environments. Guest author Monti Hill (she/her) shares her recommendations for how to interrogate professionalism in the workplace and center inclusion and belonging in your policies and practices.
Mapping Your Personal Equity Journey
The Equity Lens Map is an individual self-assessment tool designed to help organizations build effective, differentiated talent practices for team members at every level of the organization in order to advance diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI). The Equity Lens Map was developed to support individuals on their equity leadership journey by assessing levels of self-awareness, bias, allyship, internalized oppression, and fatigue. The Equity Lens Map provides trend data that allows organizational leaders to reinforce their institutional equity work plan with targeted supports for developing talented leaders throughout the organization.
Breaking down the glass cliff
Highland Leader and founder of Beloved Community Rhonda Broussard shares the challenges of the “glass cliff”—when leaders, namely Black women, are moved into roles in times of chaos or crisis, and not equipped with adequate resources, staff, training, or support—and it’s at the cost of our mental and physical well-being. Read what else Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of the Highland Project, has to say about how can companies prioritize women who have been intentionally marginalized by institutions and systems.
Reclaiming the right to rest
At Beloved Community, we are interested in how rest makes you more compassionate and allows you to connect with people as people more deeply. What does it mean to feel rest in your body? What can rest do for the ways that you show up for yourself and others? How does it unlock your ability to dream and create with abundance? There is so much available to us if we slow our brains and bodies down.
Let’s talk about sabbatical
“We have always named the impetus for our annual sabbatical as an opportunity for collective rest. It is also a way to honor the invisible labor that women do in the workplace and in our family structures.” Hear from Beloved Community leaders Rhonda J. Broussard and Stephanie Taylor as they discuss annual sabbatical + operationalizing collective rest.
Rhonda Broussard, Founder of the Nonprofit Beloved Community, Gets Real About Supporting Black, Queer Women at Work – and So-Called “Professional Attire”
Rhonda Broussard is an award-winning education entrepreneur, sought-after public speaker, and founder and CEO of Beloved Community. This nonprofit seeks to create sustainable paths to regional racial and economic equity at the nexus of schools, work, and home. Her vision for Beloved Community is informed by her leadership in education and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s goal “to create a beloved community” that would “require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” Broussard is also the author of “One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead.”
Learn what Broussard has to say about the women who inspire her, the worst career advice she ever got, and the meeting that changed her life.
Why Our Team is Going on Sabbatical This Month.
Our team at Beloved Community is going on sabbatical together. Not a retreat, not an internal strategy reflection, but a collective rest for the month of February.
Celebrating 30 Years of ADA While Continuing Forward.
Today marks 30 years since the American Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted. This milestone was the first of its kind to prohibit employment, transportation, telecommunication, or public space discrimination based on a person’s mental or physical disability status. One of the most revolutionary aspects of the ADA is that it created tangible workplace rights for people with disabilities. Although this was particularly radical for its time, we still remain quite far from true equity for people with disabilities in 2020.
What It Means to Be Equity Champions During Crisis: Part II
In our initial post, Beloved Community explored ideas for how to develop a more inclusive and equitable virtual team culture. In this post, we focus on populations that are at risk, and examples of organizations that have keyed in on equitable practices while navigating the pandemic.
Use this post to better understand and consider those most vulnerable and explore ways you as an organizational leader can evolve or compromise to keep everyone safe and taken care of.