STEP ONE:

Talk to your staff. Create the conditions necessary to succeed in this work as an institution. (staffing, training, buy-in, plan) 

STEP TWO:

Review the mission and history of your organization and understand it through an anti-racist lens. 

STEP THREE:

Reimagine your programming: how you reach out, consider who comes, and what they see.

Within each step, there are a number of concrete benchmarks for your institution to commit to, make public, and by which you can expect to be held to account. As you go through the steps outlined above, think about what you can realistically accomplish in one year, two years, and in five years.

You are invited to create your own language to describe how your organization will meet each of these benchmarks, and can do so using the Racial Equity Action Plan Tool, which works in tandem with this guide. Benchmarks should be concrete, time limited, and be measurable. To assist with thinking through your benchmarks we have offered examples of how other organizations have publicly committed to make change in the PDF here.

Developing a plan? Looking for support? Find an accountability partner* for your organization that is going through a similar journey.

*Here are examples of articles that illustrate the Accountability Partner model.