The Allstate Foundation Leading with Equity

This program will create a unique learning opportunity for nonprofit leaders and their board chairs to explore systemic inequities that are pervasive in their organizations and communities. Program participants will analyze their own beliefs and biases which will become the basis for uncovering ways that they can make meaningful change within their spheres of influence. The learning objectives for this program will allow organizational leaders and board chairs to: • Discover how systemic inequities throughout their communities were formed, and make the case for personal and systems change • Learn new frameworks around diversity, equity and inclusion, rooted in equity as it relates to race, gender and sexual orientation • Understand their responsibility as a change agent in their organization and learn to intervene in specific and tangible ways when faced with inequity • Analyze their own beliefs and uncover unconscious biases to identify what it takes to become an ally • Explore the concept of an equity audit on their organization’s policies and procedures • Develop a project plan that prepares leaders to take actionable steps on systems change on a specific area within their organization, being held accountable by learning partners after the program concludes