Equity & Inclusion Library
50-30 Challenge: Your Diversity Advantage – Info & Sign Up
GBA+ (Gender-based Analysis Plus)
This list is curated by Michelle Tsutsumi, Zanna Ekeroth and Litzy Baeza.
Equity & Inclusion in Co-ops Resources:
English
- Inclusive Orientation & Onboarding Checklist – Co-ops DEI Tool
- Accountability Practices – Co-ops DEI Tool
- Inclusive Comms Guide – Co-ops DEI Tool
- Equitable Sponsorship & Mentorship Guide – Co-ops DEI Tool
- Anti-Discrimination & Anti-Harassment Policy Template – Co-ops DEI Tool
Français
- Guide d’Orientation et d’Intégration Inclusives pour les Coopératives
- Guide d’Orientation Inclusive pour le CA d’une Coopérative
- Guide d’Orientation pour le Nouveau Membre au CA d’une Coopérative
- Pratiques de la Responsabilité – Boîte à outil
- Guide de Communication Inclusive – Boîte à outil
- Modèle de Politique Anti-Discrimination et Anti-Harcèlement
- Guide de Parrainage et de Mentorat Équitable pour les Coopératives
- Tableau Collaboratif – DEI dans la Coopérative
Equity & Inclusion in Co-ops Video Series:
- Accountability & Sustaining Change featuring Vancity
- Adapting Systems & Structures featuring City in Colour
- Amplifying Co-op Principles featuring Multicultural Health Brokers
- Board & Leadership Support featuring BCCA & ACCA
Blog posts by the Equity & Inclusion in Co-ops Team:
- Steadfastness and What We Can Learn From Mushrooms
- Equity & Inclusion in Co-ops Year in Review
- How We Can Be (More) Comfortable Being Uncomfortable?
- It’s Time to Liberate our DEI Work from Individualism
- Hurry, Hurry, Wait – It’s Time to Discern When Urgency is Needed
- Perfectionism – a Harmful Idea Rooted in White Dominant Culture
- Why is Understanding Power Essential for Advancing Equity and Inclusion?
- Why is it Important to Check Your Privilege?
General DEI Resources:
- GDEIB Simplified Tool (Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmark Tool)
- Diversity & Inclusion Councils (how to)
- Gender Inclusive workshop
- Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) toolkits
- 50-30 Challenge: Recruit Resources (Job Posting Template, Hiring Checklist & more)
- GDEIB – The Global DEI Benchmarks
- Intercultural Competency – Inclusive Practices
- Intercultural Capacity Framework
- Equity and Inclusion Test
- Equity Matrix
- Video: Cultural Intelligence: The Competitive Edge for Leaders
- Book: DEI Deconstructed by Lily Zheng
- Book: The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle MiJung Kim
- Course: Moving DEI from Intention to Impact with Ruchika Tulshyan
Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression:
- Racial Equity Tools
- Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues
- Racial Equity Worksheet
- GARE Racial Equity Toolkit – An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity
- Anti-Racist Organizational Change Toolkit
- Anti-Racist Organizational Change – Resources & Tools for Nonprofits Booklet
- Glossary of Terms by Canadian Race Relations Foundation
- Shareable Anti-racism Resource Guide
- White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun
- White Dominant Culture and Something Different (a worksheet building on Tema Okun’s work)
- Video: Changing the Lights: how to operationalize racial equity
- Book: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
- Course: So You Want to Learn About Race & Racism: Knowledge Burst | Catalyst (interactive online learning tool – about 1hr)
- Course: Facing Racism and Emotional Tax in the Workplace | edX (online self-paced course, about 2hr)
- Daniela GR Consulting ‘The Work’ 101
- Education for Racial Equity – Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem, co-facilitated by Carlin Quinn
Conciliation with Indigenous Communities:
- Truth and Reconciliation Commissions 94 Calls to Action
- A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
- Beyond Land Acknowledgement Worksheet
- Video: In Our Voices Land Acknowledgement
- Board Game: Walking in Good Relations by Ta7talíya Nahanee
- The History of Two-Spirit Folks, Isabella Thurston
- Course: Indigenous Canada (free 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course from the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta)
- Book: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
Positionality and Intersectionality:
- Positionality Exercise – Co-ops DEI Tool
- Positionality and Intersectionality
- A Note on Reflexivity and Positionality
- The Power Flower Activity: Reflection on our Social Identities
- UN Intersectionality Toolkit
- 3-part Video Series – Understanding social locations and identities
- Book: On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Power & Privilege:
- Diversity toolkit: a guide to discussing identity, power and privilege
- Power Mapping
- Power Mapping working sheet (ideally used together with the above resource)
- Organizational Structure & Culture Chart
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Julie Diamond’s Power Framework: Infographic and Video
- Video: Privilege walk
- Video: Sometimes you are a caterpillar
- Book: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Communications & Language Guides:
- Inclusive Language Guide: Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Sexual Orientation, And Sex Characteristics
- Inclusive Language Guide: Race & Ethnicity
- Inclusive Language Guide: Persons With Disabilities
- Inclusive Language Guide: Indigenous Peoples
- A Guide to Communicating with Indigenous Audiences
Social Media to Follow:
- Color Of Change (@colorofchange)
- Freedom Dreams Co-operative Education (@freedomdreamscoop)
- Blair Imani Ali (@blairimani)
- ON CANADA PROJECT (@oncanadaproject)
- matt bernstein (@mattxiv)
- KWEEN WERK (@kweenwerk)
- Slow Factory 🌍 (@theslowfactory)
- ALOK (@alokvmenon)
- #DiversifyOurNarrative (@diversifyournarrative)
- @danielagr.co
- @resmaamenakem
- @elainealec_
- @deconstructingkaren
- @decolonizemyself
- @ckyourprivilege
- Lily Zheng
- Ruchika Tulshyan
- Sharon Hurley Hall
- Dr. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey
- Elaine Alec
- Elizabeth Leiba
- Hannah Litt
- ‘Shep’ DS Sheppard
- Madison Butler
- Camille Dundas
- The Winters Group
- Yeong Cheng
- Tara Robertson
- Aiko Bethea
- Michelle MiJung Kim
Podcasts & Magazines
- Podcast: All My Relations by Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene
- Podcast: The Changemaker by Marie Beecham
- Podcast: The Equity Gap Podcast by Shahzia Noorally
- Briarpatch Magazine (independent, reader-supported magazine of politics and culture from a grassroots perspective)
