Build Your Equity Why  

Why racial equity matters in your everyday work

What is Your Equity Why?

THE ANCHOR THAT CONNECTS INTENTION WITH IMPACT

Your Equity Why is an internal statement that explains why racial equity matters to your organization’s work. It connects your mission to your actions.

It is an internal, cross-cutting statement that anchors your leadership, organizational behaviors, and decision-making. It influences your organization’s operations, external activities, and staff experiences.

Your “Equity Why” is the thread running from the heart of your organization to your external work. It shapes how you present yourself to the world.

Building an Equity Why for Your Organization supports your work in these ways:

  • Provides an elevator speech for why racial equity matters

  • Connects data with your organization’s equity aspirations

  • Allows you to skip the jagon in naming the public policies most important to your organization’s work

  • Gives you a way to talk about any historical backstories to your work in aspirational ways

Working on our Equity Why helped me understand that [in our organization] racial equity work is presumed and that we are all in the same place in our equity journey.

-A Student, Create Your Equity Why [online course]

A consulting engagement to build your organization’s Equity Why with a values review in 4 steps:

  • Data sharing about equity-related activities

  • Create the Equity Why, up to 1-2 virtual sessions

  • Reflect, revisit, and refine organizational values

  • Leadership coaching for issues as they arise

How clients use

Here are some of the ways that clients use this service

Here are a few examples where clients have engaged Stamey Street to help them create an Equity Why for their organization:

  • After a leadership change. New team members need to be on the same page about the role racial equity plans in mission performance.

  • Before a strategic planning process. Often strategic planning will uncover a lack of clarity within and across program areas. Engaging in this work before strategic planning can save alot of time later.

  • Orgnanizations new to explicit equity work. Leaders who have never done organizational equity work, which is differernt from activism, often are not sure where to start. The Equity Why gives a facilitated space for creating a shared understanding of what equity approach to use or what it means for everyday work.

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