1. Inclusiveness at Work: How to Build Greater Geographic, Cultural, and Racial Diversity on Your Council

2. SILC Congress PRESENTATION
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
1:00pm – 2:15pm

3. Workshop Objectives
Background information on the efforts of the California SILC to diversify its’ members.
Explore perceptions, group identity, assumptions and stereotypes;
Constructively address disruptive beliefs and biased behaviors that divide and devalue people;
Define how we can build diverse SILCs.
Offer tools and information on membership/recruitment audits.
Examples of SILC activities that have been effective; and provide an opportunity for
Participants discuss what can be done in our SILCs to build participation and leadership of all people with disabilities.

4. Introductions Name, organization
What interested you about this workshop?
What you hoped to get out of the workshop?

5. Leadership: Champions
Elsa Quezada
Ben Jauregui
Current
Joseph describe his experience
Michael Agyin

6. Decentralized 3 working committees, committee chairs, vice chairs Joseph Vice Chair

7. Projects YLF Diversity Plan
Targeted recruitments: Asian-American, Youth, TBI, Tribal
Outreach to missing demographic groups
Peer-to-peer mentoring

8. Explore perceptions, group identity, assumptions and stereotypes;
Consider and describe the personality of Justin Dart
use only 2-4 words to describe the dominant features of the personality.

9. Why do we see the same people in different ways?
To what extent does our view of ourselves influence our views of others?
Where do these biases come from?
How do you self-identify?

10. How we can build diverse SILCs?
Equal status among group members
Interaction that is intimate, individualized, nonstereotypical, and interdependent – making similarities among participants salient.

11. Tools and information on membership/recruitment audits.
Boardsource
Georgia Center for Nonprofits system: Strategic Needs Table, Current Board Inventory, Recruit Attributes Chart

12. More Tools and information on membership/recruitment audits.
National Council of Nonprofits:
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits Board Self-Assessment Questionnaire
Blue Avocado, Board Café, “Ditch Your Board Composition Matrix.”

13. Examples of SILC activities that have been effective?

14. Attending Events
Networking
Being parts of other organizations
Active community member
Getting to know your ILCs and their members
City and county council meetings
Making presentations
Chamber Meetings

15. What can we do in our SILCs to build participation and leadership from diverse communities?
In Inclusiveness at Work: How to Build Inclusive Nonprofit Organizations, Katherine Pease suggests a few questions your board can ask itself: 
Are people of all ethnicities, races, religions, gender identities, ages comfortable serving on the board?
Does the board consider issues relating to all when it sets policies and makes decisions for the organization?
What could the board do differently to become more inclusive and welcoming?
What could the board do differently to address the needs of different communities?

16. Liz Pazdral, Executive Director
Questions/Comments
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Liz Pazdral, Executive Director
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