Toolkits | Power & Institutional Policy
“What are we going to do about it?”
Communities that are ready to tackle issues of power and institutional structures can find resources and toolkits here to implement changes at the policy level.
Tools for addressing Power & Institutional Policy
Find the tools that will work best in your community:
Green Equity Toolkit: Advancing Race, Gender and Economic Equity in the Green Economy
Compact for Racial Justice: An Agenda for Fairness & Unity – Plan and Toolkit
Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit
Model policies for download here
"Race"-ing to Equity: A Toolkit and Tale of Two Cities - no longer exists
Facing Race, Facing our Humanity - no longer exists
Inclusiveness Project at the Denver Foundation
This site features resources for inclusiveness hiring practices, creating an inclusiveness team in the workplace and other resources for people who want to make long lasting changes within their institutions and organizations.
Visit the site here.
The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is a multiyear project intended to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers. The following articles are available for download:
Critical Issues Forum Vol. 3. Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice
A Beginning Dialogue. Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice
Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from Racial Justic Grantmaking Assessment
Critical Issues Forum Vol. 1: Measuring What We Value
Grant Making with a Racial Equity Lens
Cultivating Interdependence: Guide for Race Relations and Racial Justice Organizations
Changing the Rules of the Game: Youth Development & Structural Racism
See article summaries & article downloads here.
From the Kirwan Institute for the study of race & enthnicity (The Ohio State University): Opportunity Mapping is a research tool used to understand the dynamics of “opportunity” within metropolitan areas. The purpose of opportunity mapping is to illustrate where opportunity rich communities exist (and assess who has access to these communities) and to understand what needs to be remedied in opportunity poor communities. Opportunity mapping builds upon the rich history of using neighborhood based information and mapping to understand the challenges impacting our neighborhoods.
Changing the Conversation About Social Problems
The mission of the FrameWorks Institute is to advance the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse about social problems.
FrameWorks produces Online and CD Toolkits for many of its issue-based research efforts, from Health Care to Rural Issues to Government to Oral Health. These contain all research reports, recommendations, and tools for the field such as Talking Points, Sample Op-Eds, Sample Media Interview Questions and more. See the complete list of issue-based toolkits.
A general Framing Public Issues Toolkit is available - the manual explains each element of the frame (values, messengers, metaphors, context, etc.), and provides tools such as sample op/eds, speeches and mock interviews. Visit FrameWorks' Framing Public Issues Toolkit.
The People's Institute was formed in 1980 as a cooperative effort between two prominent social change organizations: Help Us Make A Nation (HUMAN) and The Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC). Founders, Dr. Jim Dunn and Ron Chisom, worked to establish a training institute that provides not only community organizing skills, but an analysis, principles, and values that make these skills useful.
The flagship program of the People's Institute is the "Un-Doing Racism" workshop. Based on the notion that racism has been consciously and systematically erected in American society, the People's Institute teaches that it is each individual's responsibility to dismantle the legacy of racism. The People's Institute offers a variety of services and trainings to diverse communities. In addition to the "Undoing Racism" workshop, the Institute also offers technical assistance to communities and organizations. The Institute teaches basic skills in effective community organizing, leadership development, coalition building, fundraising and publicity skills.
Inspirational Resources listed here
12th Annual White Privilege Conference
Bloomington, MN. April 13-16, 2011.
What is the White Privilige Conference?
What is Privilege Fact Sheet (PDF)
WPC Community Agreement
Leadership for a New Era: Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice
How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice
Leadership programs can help solve racial inequalities in access to education, healthcare, income and wealth. But according to a new report released by the Leadership Learning Community and other thought leaders in the leadership development and racial equity fields, many current approaches to leadership development actually maintain and promote racial inequalities. This is the first report to analyze the link between major philanthropy investments in the racial equity and leadership development fields.