Today’s workforce and organizations are increasingly diverse. Effective non-profits need to be capable of welcoming, including, utilizing and working with diverse people, perspectives, styles, and experiences for overall success and capacity. This presentation offers practical tools and concepts designed to resolve tensions, utilize strengths, support collaboration, and create more welcoming environments.

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5. Welcome!
Diversity Awareness for
Effective Non-Profits
with
Bill Say

6. Early US Diversity work

7. Women are driving employment
• One of the most striking economic events in
recent times has been the entry of large numbers
of women into the workforce.
• (http://www.dpiap.org/resources/pdf/global_diversity_rankings_2012_12_03_20.pdf)

9. The U.S. workforce is undoubtedly becoming more
diverse. As of June 2012 people of color made up 36
percent of the labor force.

10. Gay and transgender workers make up 6.28 percent of
the US workforce today.

11. People who are both LGBT and members of a racial or
ethnic minority will often face the highest level of
health disparities

12. Diversity Awareness creates a feeling of
home: for all !

13. Conflicts can lead to community

14. Diversity is Exciting!

15. The most marginal
person, perspective
or experience may
provide the solution

16. The leader may be unlikely

17. The best friends are sometimes unlikely
ones

18. An inclusive enough map/model of
diversity will
help us get to our goals

19. A model of diversity includes:
• Analysis of social conditions, past and
present
• Philosophy, goals, and practices
• Internal and external realities
• Objective and subjective realities

20. We are all diverse!
All individuals and groups are
diverse

21. Role Awareness:
the process of
noticing positions
and
points of view

22. Exercise: Diverse Roles
1) Bring to mind your non-profit or other group.
Then think of an issue that you would like to see
addressed by and in the group.
2) Imagine two people (roles) that come forward to
debate this issue. Call one "mainstream" and one
"other." What does "mainstream" say? Then listen
to "other." Listen carefully to what this one has to
say.
3) Which side is closest to your views on this
issue? How have you also experienced the other
part in yourself? Can you embrace this part more?

23. Ways to use role work internally
1) You can use inner work with roles to help the
relationship between you and any bothersome,
disturbing, or simply different role or person.
2) Your group might start using inner work with
roles to start gaining more ability to hold
diverse or conflicted roles.

24. Exploring diverse roles in a group
1) Form as a large group to explore diverse or
polarized roles. Start by naming two roles: e.g.,
“mainstream” and “marginal.”
2) Next, form small groups of 4 people. 2 will be
witnesses. 2 will be “workers” with one
expressing the “mainstream” one, and the
other person expressing the “marginal” one.
Spend a few minutes and then debrief noting
what you learned or found meaningful. Then
rotate roles so the witnesses can now work.
3) Come back as a large group and share your
experiences and learning.

25. A sample survey
• What is your definition of diversity?
• What’s the hardest thing here for you regarding diversity?
• With regard to diversity and the group, what are the strengths?
• Who or what is “other” or most marginal in the group? What quality,
energy, style, perspective, etc., is being expressed by this one?
• Is the environment here inclusive and welcoming?
• When considering your own diverse nature, style, and gifts, do you feel
welcome and included?
• How safe would you feel discussing issues of diversity here? If not safe, what
would you need to feel safer?
• Where would you like to see the organization head in its relationship with
diversity?

26. Diversity awareness is
intimately linked to health,
sustainability, and deeper levels
of democracy

27. Thanks for joining in!
Bye for now!
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