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Do you have suggested resources to add to this Library? Submit your suggestions! Questions about the resource library or its contents? Please contact NRPA’s Senior Education Manager of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Shalini Mirpuri.
Communications Guide
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
This guide serves as a toolkit for informal and formal communications about your jurisdiction’s work toward racial equity.
How to Receive Feedback: Power, Difference and Inequity
The Management Center
Whether you are an executive director or program manager, you have probably received challenging feedback from someone you manage. This guide provides concrete steps on how to receive feedback related to diversity, inclusion, equity, belonging or culture.
How to Give Feedback About Defensiveness
The Management Center
What do you do when a staff member resists hearing feedback — do you become upset or frustrated, or do you automatically pushing back? This guide provides feedback about defensiveness in a way that makes the process smoother.
Community Engagement Resource Guide
NRPA
NRPA’s Community Engagement Resource Guide highlights the essential steps to performing meaningful engagement around neighborhood-level and park-system planning projects. However, every community engagement plan will look different from project to project and municipality to municipality, so each must tailor the steps and tips to best fit the unique characteristics and needs of the community.
Elevating Health Equity Through Parks and Recreation: A Framework for Action
NRPA
This interactive framework guides local park and recreation professionals in applying an equity lens to system-wide operations, programs and services.
Equity Action Plan
NRPA
NRPA’s Equity Action Plan provides a framework for how it is strengthening organizational culture and practices centered around equity and our core values of trust, continuous learning, diversity and inclusion.
Creating Team Agreements
Art of Transformational Consulting
This toolkit provides a specific process for teams or organizations looking to create team agreements, sometimes called “working agreements.”
Courageous Conversations Toolkit — How to Prepare for a Courageous Conversation Using the POP Model
Art of Transformational Consulting
This toolkit introduces a model for preparing for courageous and difficult conversations using the format POP: purpose, outcomes, process.
"That’s how we’ve always done it!" A guide to using PTR
The Management Center
PTR, which stands for preferences, traditions, and requirements, is a tool that can help you focus on what really matters so that you can mitigate bias and get to better outcomes. From an equity and inclusion standpoint, PTR is an invitation to pause, consider new perspectives and be more explicit about organizational norms, culture or expectations. Using PTR can help you mitigate bias in hiring, communicate more effectively when delegating and stay open to new approaches.
Tracking Diversity: The Green 2.0 Guide to Best Practices in Demographic Data Collection
Green 2.0
This guide is designed to support the demographic data collection efforts of foundations and nonprofit organizations and to fill the gap in the field of demographic data collection in the environmental sector. It provides insights into the importance of demographic data collection, whether for staff, board members or grantees. It also offers support for developing and implementing a demographic data survey.
Public Sector Jobs: Opportunities for Advancing Racial Equity
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
This issue brief from the GARE provides a common approach to furthering the field of practice of workforce equity within government.
Racial Equity: Getting to Results
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
Tools are not the work, but they help us do work. Racial Equity: Getting to Results helps begin the process of using racial equity informed results-based accountability to do more impactful work in your jurisdiction.
Contracting for Equity: Best Local Government Practices that Advance Racial Equity in Government Contracting and Procurement
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
This issue brief from the GARE provides a common approach to furthering the field of practice of contracting equity within government. It assesses current successes and challenges of jurisdictions that are a part of GARE, as well as identifies additional jurisdictions that are furthering the field of practice.
Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
Racial equity tools are designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs and budgets. It is both a product and a process. Use of a racial equity tool can help to develop strategies and actions that reduce racial inequities and improve success for all groups.
From SMART to SMARTIE: How to Embed Inclusion and Equity in Your Goals
The Management Center
Goals are a concrete way to drive results, but without an explicit equity and inclusion component, goals won’t produce better outcomes for marginalized communities, address disparities or create belonging. By incorporating an equity and inclusion component to your Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound (SMART) goals, you can make sure your organization’s commitment to racial equity and inclusion is anchored by tangible and actionable steps.
Equity in Parks and Recreation: A Historical Perspective
NRPA
This story map explores U.S. history, the evolution of parks and recreation and urban planning, and how it brought us to the inequities in access to parks and recreation today.
Equity Language Guide
NRPA
NRPA: NRPA’s Equity Language Guide is a glossary of terms to help park and recreation professionals develop a common language around diversity, equity and inclusion. It also provides guidance to help people become familiar with terms they may not be aware of and best practices for making your writing accessible.
Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity): Racial Equity Action Plans can put a theory of change into action to achieve a collective vision of racial equity. Plans can drive institutional and structural change. This manual provides guidance for local governments to develop their own racial equity action plans after a period of research and information gathering. This manual also provides guidance and tools to conduct this research. GARE created a Racial Equity Action Plan template after a national scan of promising practices from cities and counties that have developed plans for racial equity and the structures that supported successful planning processes.
Rec for All: Creating a Pathway for an Inclusive Recreation System for Philadelphians of All Abilities
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Advancing Racial Equity in Public Libraries
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
This Issue Brief profiles a handful of public libraries that are leveraging the power and influence of their institutions to advance racial equity in library work and beyond. These libraries are using a shared framework and toolset while developing innovative local approaches to reduce race-based disparities. In doing so, they are beginning to see positive transformations in collections, partnerships, the library workforce, programming, and — ultimately — communities.
Equitable Development as a Tool to Advance Racial Equity
GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity)
This paper provides a policy framework for implementation strategies that advance equitable development. It provides the historical context, current conditions, and some key data points that inform the framework. But first the document introduces some key definitions and a vision for the elimination of racial disparities and achievement of racial equity.