What Does it Take to Advance Racial Equity?
The first step toward racial equity and liberation from structural inequity is to start right where you are.
Is your organization ready to advance racial equity, but not sure how, where, or with whom to get started? O&G created an organizational readiness assessment that can help you answer those questions and start your organization on its journey to advance racial equity, no matter where it starts.
Racial equity is a product and a process of transformational change. As with all efforts to create and sustain change, readiness is the key to getting started, while several other factors are critical for success. Over the past three years, O&G has consulted with a myriad of jurisdictions and institutions to advance racial equity. During this time, we have come to deeply understand what is needed of organizations and their leaders to be successful in this work. Through these experiences, we have identified four indicators of readiness that are key for implementing and sustaining the processes of racial equity in order to advance racial equity in outcomes: Commitment, Capacity, Infrastructure, and Accountability. In a perfect world, these indicators would be innate and well-developed within all organizations and leaders, most especially among those who are racial equity-minded. In the real world, however, perfection is a limiting construct that can paralyze action and the urgency of the present denies us the luxury of time to "get ready" to act for racial equity change.
Assess your Readiness and Start Where You Are
O&G believes that the first step to take toward racial equity and liberation from structural inequity is to start from right where you are. We created the Racial Equity Readiness Assessment to provide organizations and leaders with insight into what is needed of them to advance racial equity effectively and help them understand their starting point. Our approach and services are designed to meet you at your level of readiness and progressively build individual and organizational capacity to implement and sustain meaningful, impactful, and transformational racial equity change.
If your organization is looking to advance racial equity, O&G's Racial Equity Readiness Assessment can be your first or next step toward creating meaningful and impactful change. Take our assessment to start or advance your organization's racial equity journey today!