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Below are resources to help you advance this work. This page will be updated regularly. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please email dei@philaculture.org

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Arts & Culture/Nonprofit Specific

Anti-Racism Resources for the Arts and Nonprofits - Fractured Atlas - June 5, 2020
“Have Nonprofit and philanthropy become the ‘white moderate’ that Dr. King warned us about?” - NonprofitAF, June 1, 2020
“White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture” - Tzedek Social Justice Fellowship, Aug 12, 2019
Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources (For Allies, Orgs, & POC) - Artist Trust
“How White People Conquered the Non-Profit Industry” - Medium, April 28, 2020
Decolonizing The Music Room: A nonprofit supporting music educators
A New Harmony: Equity, Access, Belonging -- A Workbook for GALA Choruses GALA Choruses, June 2020
"Justice" - Arts Journal, June 3, 2020
Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers - Marques L. A. Garrett, PhD
"Capitalism, Race, and the Evolution of American Theater", Capacity Interactive, July 16, 2020
“Examining Cultural Equity”, Arts Connect International, January 2018
"Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap", Building Movement Project 2020
Arts & Culture Discussion Series, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
“Responsible & Responsive: The Duty of the Performing Arts Sector in Our Current Context”, Artist Relief recorded on July 30, 2020 (1 hour)
“Don’t perpetuate harm while parading it as diversity” Generocity, August 3, 2020
"Reframing Governance III", Nonprofit Quarterly, July 15 2020
"Does a Nonprofit Organization Have to Have a Moral Compass?" Nonprofit Quarterly, July 17, 2020
"Anxious to Launch a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program at Your Nonprofit?" Nonprofit HR, July 13, 2020
“Enough Already with the Statements of ‘Solidarity,’ Arts World” - Kaisha S. Johnson, Medium, June 5, 2020
Racial Equity Tools - Arts & Culture (List of Resources & Curriculum)
City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture - Racial Equity (List of Resources)
Until We Are All Free (Arts & Culture Anti-Racism Resources)
Creative Minds Out Loud Podcast - Episode 103: Enhancing the Visibility of Professionals of Color (2020)
“Broadway for Black Lives Matter” - Capacity Interactive, August 13, 2020
“On Power and Participation” - AFTA & Monument Lab, August 4, 2020
Anti-Racism Resources compiled by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, including their Toolkit and Pledge
“Ceding Power: On Reparations in the Arts” - The Ostracon, August 14, 2020
“Can white arts leaders become anti-racist “accomplices”?”- D.C. Metro, August 16, 2020
"What Should a Museum Look Like in 2020?" Vanity Fair, August 24, 2020
"Ignorance of the Black theatrical canon is no excuse" D.C. Metro, August 19, 2020
"Responding to Widespread Demands, Museums Are Acquiring More Works by Artists of Color. But How They Do So Matters More Than Ever" ArtNet News, September 2, 2020
"Rally against racism in America’s art museums." - Anti-Racism Daily, August 25, 2020
"Tell museums to replace stolen artifacts" - Anti-Racism Daily, September 4, 2020
"The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classical Music" San Francisco Classical Voice, September 1, 2020
"DEI Approach is No Longer Relevant: Operationalizing Racial Justice in Non-Profit Organizations" Medium, August 7, 2020
"Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch on Institutional Racism and the Duty of Curators" Art Market, September 2, 2020
"Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’", New York TImes, July 2, 2020
"BIPOC-Creatives Resource and Database" - This resource and database is for BIPOC creatives to not only share their professional info, it is also one step towards developing a powerful community. They ask that if you visit this page and reach out to someone on the list that you also read their Community Statement.
"'Can I Make Sure That I'm Not The Only One?' Artist Helps Museum Diversify Collection" NPR, September 16, 2020
"MASS Action Resources" , MASS: Museum As Site For Social Action
"Woke Supremacy: A Critical Perspective on the American Theatre" HowlRound Theatre Commons, February 18, 2020
"Anti-Black Discrimination in American Orchestras" League of American Orchestras, Summer 2020
"We Need New Institutions, Not New Art", Hyperallergic, October 26, 2020
"Public Art, Public Memory" Metropolitan Area Planning Council, series of webinars from September and October of 2020
"Black Scholars Confront White Supremacy in Classical Music", The New Yorker, September 14, 2020
"Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back", The New York Times, June 21, 2020
"The Next Act: Creating Anti-racist Theater" The Boston Globe, 2020 (1 hour recording)
"At Theaters, Push for Racial Equity Leads to Resignations and Restructuring" The New York Times, August 19, 2020
"Letter to the Opera Field from Black Administrators" Black Administrators of Opera, October 29, 2020
"How community theaters can be more inclusive and accessible" OnStage Blog, November, 1, 2020
"How Can I Have an Ethical Art Career?" KCET, October 28, 2020
"Exclusion Is Oppression: From Pedagogy to Performance" Dance Magazine, November 11, 2020
Arts and Culture Racial Justice Strategies In Action from Racial Equity Tools, 2020
Arts & Equity Toolkit from Neighborhood Arts Network
"Acknowledge whiteness in classical art", Anti-Racism Daily, December 13, 2020
"Seattle theater leaders work toward anti-racism" The Seattle Times, December 19, 2020
"Meet the experts who root out racism and exclusion in the arts" Art Newspaper, January 11, 2021
"How to Responsibly Collect the Work of Black Artists" Art Market, February 17. 2021
"It’s Time to Shift the Power Inequities Among Arts Nonprofits" Hyperallergic, February 19, 2021
"Reckoning with a Reckoning: How Cultural Institutions Can Advance Equity" Nonprofit Quarterly, February 23, 2021
"Support musicians of color" Anti-Racism Daily, March 11, 2021
American Alliance of Museum's DEIA Working Group Full Reoprt, 2018
"Theatre Nonprofits and Social Justice: A New Way Forward" The Center for Effective Philanthropy, June 22, 2021

Workforce

"4 things your black employees and coworkers wish you knew —and how you should offer allyship and support" - Business Insider, June 5, 2020
“Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not” - Refinery 29, May 28, 2020
“Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot” - Shenequa Golding, Medium, May 28, 2020
REIMAGINING SMALL BUSINESS: A town hall to listen, learn & commit to building equitable, anti-racist organizations - Fractured Atlas - Recording from June 10, 2020
"Working While Black: Stories from black corporate America" - Fortune, June 16, 2020
"Toward a Racially Just Workplace" - Harvard Business Review, November 2019
"A Lesson in Leadership: An Interview with GEO CEO Marcus Walton" - The Bridgespan Group - June, 2020
“Shine a Light on Hidden Biases”, Affinity, August 13, 2020 - Webinar recording (1 hour) and presentation
Organizational Change Processes, Racial Equity Tools - This section provides information particularly for organizations that seek to transform their policies, procedures, practices, culture and relationships to be racially equitable and inclusive.
IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series: “How to Be an Anti-Racist Organization: Part I”, Denver Arts & Venues, August 7, 2020 recording (1 hr 30 min)
IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series: "How to Be an Anti Racist Organization Part II" Denver Arts & Venues, Sept. 14, 2020 recording (1 hr 30 min)
“Cultivating Fair Pay in the Workplace: Your Guide to Global Pay Equity”, Affirmity
“How We Hire is Broken - Let's Fix It!” career.place, October 3, 2017
“Moves Toward Equity: Perspectives from Arts Leaders of Color”, Arts Connect International, September 2019
Nonprofit HR's "DEI practice page"
"Breaking the culture of microaggressions", career.place, August 5, 2020
Beyond Diversity: How to Build a Truly Anti-Racist Organization Everyday Feminism
Toolkit: Analyzing Departments on their Racial Equity - Artist Trust
Anti-Racist Organizational Change: Resources & Tools for Nonprofits (PDF) - CommunityWise Resource Center (Canada; 2017)
Resources from our March, 2020 Workforce Training: Creating a Diverse & Inclusive Workplace
"Confronting White Supremacy in the Workplace" - Pollen
"Is Your Organization Anti-Racist?" - Capacity Interactive, July 16, 2019
"Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?" Harvard Business Review, June 11, 2020
"Three steps to turn diversity talk to diversity action" - career.place, June 10, 2020
Tour of the common resume biases - career.place, June 24, 2020
"You Can Hire Better: How To Empower Yourself to Create Equity at Work" - Ashley Rodriguez, July 27, 2019
"How to Begin Talking About Race in the Workplace" Knowledge@Wharton, June 15, 2020
"Leading Diversity: Why Listening and Learning Come Before Strategy" Knowledge@Wharton, July 28, 2020
"How to Make a Less Racist, More Inclusive Job Listing" Huffington Post, August 20, 2020
"The formula for COMPELLING diversity, equity, and inclusion goals" - career.place September 2, 2020
"Workplace Diversity Goes Far Past Hiring. How Leaders Can Support Employees Of Color" - NPR, September 7, 2020
"The 'glass cliff': How women and people of color are set up to fail in the workplace" Today, August 28, 2020
"Crises as a Catalyst: A Call for Race Equity & Inclusive Leadership" ProInspire
"You’re not serious about equity if you don’t post salaries" Nonprofit Technology Conference, November 19, 2019
"The 5-Step Checklist for Organizations That Want To Contribute To Fair Pay" Affirmity, 2020
"REALITIES: Talent Attraction & Diverse Recruitment Practices in Nonprofits" Webinar recording and slides, Nonprofit HR, August 25, 2020
"REALITIES: Inclusive Workforce Planning & Diversity Practices in Nonprofits" Webinar recording and slides, Nonprofit HR, July 28, 2020
"Navigating Race and New Leadership in a Time of Upheaval" Stanford Social Innovation Review, September 16, 2020
"5 Key Strategies to Accelerate the Momentum of Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program" Affirmity, 2020
"How to Nurture Diversity Efforts Over the Long Haul" Associations Now, October, 2020
"What so many get wrong about racism in the workplace" Fingerprint for Success, 2020
"The Undeniable Value of Inclusive Leadership and Visible Equity", Affirmity, October 16, 2020
"5 moves that actually increase diversity, equity and inclusion", Chief Learning Officer, August 27, 2020
"Companies Need to Think Bigger Than Diversity Training" Harvard Business Review, October 20, 2020
"The secret to optimizing candidate screening" career.place, November 4, 2020
"Are You a Good Ally at Work? Ask Yourself These Questions to Find Out" The Muse, October 26, 2020
"REALITIES: Employee Engagement & Belonging Practices in Nonprofits" Webinar recording, slides and bonus materials, Nonprofit HR, October 20, 2020
REALITIES: Leadership & Culture in Nonprofits, Webinar recording, Nonprofit HR, Novemberber 17, 2020
"Leading while Black: A Story of Double Consciousness, Decolonization & Healing" Nonprofit Quarterly, November 2, 2020
"How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues" Harvard Business Review, July 8, 2020
"Practicing Resilience 2: Practical Steps for DEIA Plans" Mid-America Arts Alliance, November 13, 2020 (70 minutes)
"Inclusion Tips for Candidate Interactions" Career.Place, December 2, 2020
Berrett-Koehler's From Self to Systems: 3 Part Online Training Series featuring expert training on inclusive leadership, anti-racism and decolonization, gender identity at work, psychological safety, institutional bias, and building inclusive workplaces and communities.
"Pay Black Women" Anti-Racism Daily, January 8, 2021
"3 Key Ways to Build a Culturally-Aware Climate in Your Organization" Affirmity, December 2020
"7 Inclusion Strategies That Boost Employee Performance" Affirmity, January 2021

Boards & Funding

Beyond Diversity National Board Training, artEquity
"Philanthropy’s Imperative: How to Discuss White Supremacy with Staff, Boards, and Nonprofit Partners" Philanthropy Network, July 16, 2020
"The Crisis of White Supremacy in America - What is Philanthropy's Role?" - Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia June 4, 2020
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change - A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities & The Hill-Snowdon Foundation, 2017
"Racial Equity in Philanthropy, Closing the Funding Gap" - The Bridgespan Group
Community-led Philanthropy during Crisis: How Giving Circles of Color Can Inform Traditional Philanthropy - Philanthropy Network, recorded on June 11, 2020
Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America Philanthropy Network, June 4, 2020
How to Avoid Excuses That Prevent Grant Makers From Aiding Black-Led Organizations The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 29, 2020
“How Charity Enables Injustice” - Anand Giridharadas, August 6, 2020
“The Role of Foundations in Achieving Creative Justice” - Grantmakeers in the Arts, March 2019
“Racial Equity in Arts Funding: Statement of Purpose and Recommendations for Action” - Grantmakers in the Arts, Published March 2015; Revised April 11, 2019
"Beyond the Board Statement: How Can Boards Join the Movement for Racial Justice?" Part One & Part Two, Nonprofit Quarterly, June 25, 2020 & July 1, 2020
"Guiding a Giving Response to Anti-Black Injustice" The Bridgespan Group, August 25, 2020
"The Impact of Unconscious Bias in Philanthropy" Brandywine Health Foundation, August 26, 2020
"The Value of Lived Experience" BoardSource Blog, August 4, 2020
"16 Deep-Pocketed Philanthropic Groups Will Give a Whopping $156 Million to Dozens of BIPOC Cultural Organizations in the US" ArtNet, September 24, 2020
"Undoing the Red-Lining of Black Leadership in Philanthropy" Whiteness at Work; Episode 8, September 28, 2020
"Who Owns Philanthropy? A Look through an Antiracist Lens" Nonprofit Quarterly, October 8, 2020
"YBCA Announces a $250k Investment in an Artist-Led Giving Circle", YBCA, October 22, 2020
"Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them" American Theatre, January 5, 2021
"Creating a Culture of Change: A panel discussion on diversifying boards" Philanthropy Network, June 11, 2021

Anti-Racism & Activism

"How to Be an Antiracist" Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, July 20, 2020
"It’s Not Enough to Be Non-Racist" - Medium, May 31, 2020
Learn about white supremacy culture: DismantlingRacism.org
Arts Administrators of Color Network's Accomplices Leadership Institute Webinar Recording on YouTube, Dec 9, 2019
“Ally or Accomplice? The Language of Activism” - Teaching Tolerance (June 5, 2017)
“A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources (book, movie recommendations, and more)” - Medium, June 1, 2020
“The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist”, Ibram X. Kendi via TED June 17, 2020 (54mins)
“Ally or co-conspirator?: What it means to act #insolidarity”, Move to End Violence, September 7, 2016
The Struggle to Vote, Moonstone Art Center
Action Plan Examples gathered by Racial Equity Tools, 2020
"Uproot workplace racism" Anti-Racism Daily, August 2, 2021

Take Action

Join the Cultural Alliance DEI Affinity Group - help us to review and revise our own DEI Statement & Action Plan by emailing dei@philaculture.org
Volunteer/get involved with Black-led activist groups like Black Lives Matter Philly
5 Ways to Show up for Racial Justice Today - KQED (May 29, 2020)
97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - Medium (August 13, 2017)
A list of resources for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement - It's Nice That (June 2020)
No Going Back: A COVID-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide, from The Center for Cultural Power
"5 Ways to be an Ally During COVID19" - Fakequity, May 8, 2020
Sign up for GPCA Advocacy Alerts to receive information about pressing issues and to advocate for fair and equitable funding for the arts
"13 Ways to Ignite Real Change in the Wake of George Floyd's Killing" - The Philadelphia Citizen, June 1, 2020
Anti-Racism Daily – a rich e-newsletter: subscribe, check out their archives, or even consider their corporate plans
“Support black-owned businesses in Philly and buy from these bookstores” - Philly Voice, June 3, 2020
Learn with the Accomplices Leadership Institute.
Look into participating in Virtual Learning Labs, The Winters Group, Inc
"To white organizational leaders, silence is violence: Here’s what you should do now" - Generocity, June 1, 2020
Three steps to creating an actionable response to Black Lives Matter - career.place, July 1, 2020
"Five Elements of a Thriving Justice Ecosystem: Pursuing Deep Equity", Nonprofit Quarterly, April 13, 2017

Learn More

“Why Lead With Race?”, Government Alliance on Race & Equity
National Museum of African American History and Culture’s “Talking About Race” web portal
"Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" - The Guardian, May 2017
"Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" - The Atlantic, May 12, 2020
artEquity Suggested Resources from artEquity, 2020
Philanthropy Network's DEI Resource Page
“A Sociologist Examines the ‘White Fragility’ That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism” - The New Yorker, July 23, 2018
White Fragility Resources from author Robin DiAngelo, PhD
"A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising" - The Root, May, 30, 2020
Resource Center for Confronting Racial Injustice from Conferences for Women
Black Lives Matter, protests and related equity-centered news - Americans for the Arts, June 17, 2020
"Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem In Conversation" - On Being - July 9, 2020
Gallup Center on Black Voices: A 100-Year Commitment to Report the Black Experience in America
Racial Equity Index - NEA
“What exactly is a microaggression?”, Vox, February 16, 2015
“The Danger of a Single Story”, Chimamanda Adichie via TED, July 2009
Project Implicit, Harvard
“The Urgency of Intersectionality”, Kimberle Crenshaw via TEDWomen, 2016 (20mins)
“Microaggressions are a big deal: How to talk them out and when to walk away” NPR, June 9, 2020
"Social Justice Series: How to Be an Ally + Antiracist" Comcast, September 3, 2020
"It’s Time to Replace “Belonging” in the Diversity and Inclusion Conversation", Medium, September 10, 2020
"3 Reasons Why ‘Anti-Bias’ May Solve More Than ‘Anti-Racism’" Forbes, September 18, 2020
"Reckoning with Historical Racism: How Systemic Change Calls for a Deeper Look" Nonprofit Quarterly, September 17, 2020
"Allies, Accomplices, and Saviors: Knowing the Difference to Maximize Impact" Berrett-Koehler Publishers, September 09, 2020
"Understanding Racism, Privilege, and How to Effect Change" Notion
"Some Do’s and Don’ts for White People Who Want to Discuss Racism at Work" Zora, June 1, 2020
IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series: "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 101", (1hr, 55min) Denver Arts & Venues, October 11, 2019
"Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others" Pepperdine | Online Programs, July 09, 2019
"Practicing Resilience Workshop" Mid-America Arts Alliance, July 16, 2020 (80 minutes)
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