Racial Equity Training Resources

Tips

• Not all organizations have the exact same types and styles of training. In order to determine which trainings fit the culture and values of your organization, consider developing criteria that you can use to apply to the selection process for trainings. In addition to reaching out to the organizations below, consider connecting with colleagues that have begun their training for additional advice and resources: if you hear of any that others in the MIE community may benefit from, please reach out to us! We will post them here.
• Transformative learning in racial equity can be personal and difficult. In addition to reading about what racial equity is, before participating in your first trainings, it can be helpful to spend time preparing for the training itself, to build sensitivity and understand where your colleagues may be coming from.
• Committing to long-term impact requires changing how we think, as well as how we build systems, rather than completing a set of prescribed actions. While we feature examples of deals and projects in racial equity and impact investing in our Racial Equity Library to demonstrate how these behavior changes may manifest, the deepest work occurs in disrupting thinking and behavior patterns that happen every day.
• No single training on its own will be successful in shifting training and culture. Create a long-term plan for change, specifically oriented around systemic disruptions that institutionalize new habits where inequities or biases tend to occur. Consider drawing consistently on consultants and/or hiring dedicated staff with specialized expertise.

Racial Equity Trainings and Workshops

• The Adaway Group is a Black woman-owned firm that provides consulting and training services in the areas of race equity, inclusion, social justice, strategic planning, and organizational change. It specializes in helping organizations do the personal and institutional work required to build equitable workplace cultures.
• Community Resource Exchange, Tracey Allard: At CRE, Tracey serves as a strategist, coach, facilitator, and thought-partner for nonprofit, government, and foundation clients. She leads on design and execution of strategic planning, diversity, equity, access and inclusion (DEAI), values and culture, team-building, leadership development and other engagements, and also conducts executive coaching. Tracey is a lead in facilitating and upholding accountability for commitment and progress on CRE’s own internal racial equity work, and serves as a member of the Management Team.
• People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) (In-Person): PISAB is a collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators. Their workshops seek to undo racism by "learning from history, developing leadership, maintaining accountability to communities, creating networks, undoing internalized racial oppression, and understanding the role of organizational gate keeping as a mechanism for perpetuating racism."
• Race Forward's Racial Justice Training (In-Person): These interactive trainings are for individuals hoping to better understand structural racism and advance racial equity. They help build learners develop a clear understanding of key concepts, such as racial equity and structural racism and learn to talk about race constructively within their organizations and with their constituents.
• Learning Modules, by Racial Equity Tools and World Trust Educational Services (WTES) (Online):  This collection of modules was developed by WTES in collaboration with leading racial justice organizations. Designed to facilitate deep learning, the modules are intended to help individuals new to ideas about fairness and equity both learn and and train others. Each module comes with a facilitator guide and PowerPoint Presentation. Additional materials can be found at the WTES site.
• Racial Equity Institute (In-Person): The Racial Equity Institute Groundwater Approach helps learners "internalize the reality that we live in a racially structured society, and that that is what causes racial inequity." Embracing these truths helps leaders confront the reality that all our systems, institutions, and outcomes emanate from a racial hierarchy on which the United States was built. In other words, we have a “groundwater” problem, and we need “groundwater” solutions. Starting from there, we begin to unlock transformative change.
• True North EDI seeks to move professional communities beyond diversity to create deeper, more meaningful, and lasting change.​works across spheres to develop the practices, policies, and beliefs of professional communities. They facilitate workshops and trainings, coach consult and support systems-level change.

Racial Equity Guides and Toolkits

• The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit for Consultants to Grantmakers: Developed by the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers, this toolkit is a primer developed specifically for philanthropy consultants that highlights key resources recommended by leading experts whose work focuses on DEI impact. The toolkit has two parts — the first is a collection of DEI resources focusing on areas where many grantmakers often use consultant support, and the second part presents case studies of instances where consultants have effectively partnered with philanthropy clients to advance DEI.

Unconscious or Implicit Bias Training

Pre-Reading for Trainings