Equity Centered School Improvements requires everyone – the parent, the school, the community. To achieve equity in schools it’s essential to measure fairness, inclusion and achievement while creating a safe and conducive environment for all students to learn, grow and...
Thrive Design Event Planning SCOPE OF WORK: Thousand Currents sought to bring their donor community together for a three-day learning and strategy setting experience. This request was for 24 members which included the organization’s leadership. The overall purpose of this...
No doubt COVID-19 has caused many business owners undue stress. As such, I’ve focused on healing and emotional self care. Get Out of The Fire has helped me as a business owner. However, I believe it’s helpful to all. Get Out...
Philanthropy Together is a new national initiative to scale and strengthen the collective giving movement. They seek to democratize and diversify philanthropy through the power of giving circles! On July 30, 2020, Philanthropy Together held their first Racial Equity Community of...
Thank you Change Philanthropy! Our CommunityBuild Ventures’ President & CEO, Natasha Harrison, recently attended the 2019 Change Unity Summit. In addition, CommunityBuild Ventures was a proud sponsor. While there she and the team learned strategies for utilizing power to advance...
Allison ToddAllison Todd is a coach and consultant with over 20 years of experience transforming small and large businesses’ operations and profitability. Whether it’s beginning, launching, or scaling a business, Allison founded her coaching and mentoring business with the hopes...
“..institutions commonly and unconsciously assume POC [People of Color] who are invited into the institution should not only be grateful but should also want to be like the white people who invited them.”
“Change culture and you change lives. You can also change the course of history...When strategy competes with culture, culture wins every time. This is one of the reasons why the most brilliant anti-white supremacy strategies in the world have failed to dislodge white-body supremacy from our culture...But we can never belong to a strategy. We can never belong to a movement, either, though we can be part of it. We can only belong to a culture.”
"There is a common misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing — and that they can be used interchangeably, especially when talking about education. But the truth is they do not — and cannot."
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