Racial equity resource directory

Combining the Intercultural Development (IDI) and Power, Privilege, & Oppression (anti-racism) frameworks, customized training and support is designed around an organization's unique realities. Individualized assessments and coaching, extended small group skill development, large group/keynote presentations, frameworks for institutional change efforts all delivered in-person or remote, with clarity, respect and humility.

CultureBrokers LLC provides customized solutions to for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations wanting to improve their outcomes with culturally diverse employees, customers, and communities. Our approach makes your success inevitable by harnessing the dynamism of diversity and employing breakthrough rules of change. Our committed clientele experience quick, effective, and sustainable results.

DCTC has embraced diversity as one of the institution's most important priorities. Multicultural Leadership Diploma (MLD) program aims to improve enrollment and graduation rates of student populations historically underserved and underrepresented in higher education. The program embraces the challenge to enhance the professional advancement of minorities in Minnesota.

The goal of "Discussions that Encounter" forums, held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, is to bring together people from all walks of life to engage in in-depth conversation about the injustices of the concept of race and racism, offering the opportunity to build new relationships.

Marriage & Family Therapist, Lambers Fisher, has equipped over 15,000 helping professionals in various fields with positive and shame-free strategies for reducing cultural offenses and repairing cross-cultural relationships. Lambers provides live interactive in-person and online training, as well as on-demand training options as well.

The toolkit is meant for anyone who feels there is a lack of productive discourse around issues of diversity and the role of identity in social relationships, both on a micro (individual) and macro (communal) level. Training of this kind can provide historical context about the politics of identity and the dynamics of power and privilege or help build greater self-awareness.
SOURCE: The MSW@USC, the online Master of Social Work program at the University of Southern California.

Belonging Circles is an afterschool curriuculm booklet for grades K-4 that uses the arts to help students build tolerance and life skills. It includes lesson plans for easy projects that promote discussions about belonging in a community, and lists characteristics of successful afterschool programs. A free guide for replicating is available.

EdChange is an award-winning and internationally recognized collaboration of facilitators, activists, and educators, two based in the Twin Cities. EdChange creates and facilitates workshops on anti-racism, cultural competence, and white privilege, working to push the conversation beyond "heroes and holidays" and toward a genuine examination of how racism permeates our lives.

Equity Alliance MN has been leading educational equity work for over 25 years. We work with organizations to support systemic equity and integration through careful and intentional use of professional development; external supports, including equity audits, facilitation and action planning; and student programming.

The Equity Literacy Institute is a team of equity specialists who work with schools, school districts, higher education institutions, and other organizations that are ready to cultivate serious institutional change. We use a framework called "equity literacy," which focuses on helping educators become a threat to the existence of inequity in their spheres of influence.