Let’s Learn to Do Better, Together
Prospera Partners is excited to announce that we will soon be offering our BIG: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Nonprofit Sector series to a national audience. While this series was initially created for nonprofit leadership in New Mexico as part of our Emerging Leaders program with the Santa Fe Community Foundation, we know the need for this kind of work reaches well beyond the borders of New Mexico.
Some background:
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed inequities in the nonprofit realm, including the systemic racism that exists within the sector. The BIG: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Nonprofit Sector series is offered as a response to the current racial inequities we are facing across the US and how the nonprofit sector can do better to be anti-racist. The Prospera Partners Emerging Leaders facilitation team will lead an 8-session program to unravel the systemic racism of the nonprofit sector, helping and inspiring leaders to transform the sector for more equitable systems and distributed power.
These sessions will explore:
- The history of how the nonprofit sector came to be, and how philanthropy was designed for the benefit of corporate interests
- How to dismantle systemic racism in the sector (case studies)
- Working with boards, staff, volunteers to rebuild an equitable organization; stop the “jump-to-solutions” mindset often pervasive on boards when addressing anti-racism and equity issues
- How to talk to Philanthropy about systemic racism
- Ways to support staff, board, and volunteers in their own anti-racism journeys
- Provide space for personal learning, transformation, networking, support
Participants will get:
- Resources galore
- Support from skilled facilitators, brave space for personal and professional transformation
- A network of transformational leaders
There will not be an application process, but participants will be asked to register and commit to showing up. Stay tuned for more information, or subscribe to our enewsletter to be the first to know about new events.
