Everybody wants to do what is right. But how easy is it for you to talk about equality and equity? How accessible is the vocabulary, concepts, and the importance of these to you, as a person? As a nonprofit or education leader? How about as a business owner? Whether you are on a leadership team, or are an individual contributor, equity challenges our ideas about how things “should” look and behave in our world.
When we put this notion of “should” into bigger frameworks that we can’t control, like systemic inequities, we often unintentionally reinforce the same inequities we want to tear down. If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that this must change — not only for the betterment of nonprofits and schools, but for the betterment of the world around us.
This work cannot be done alone. It requires a system of shared commitments and actions
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