1. Equity & Fighting Hunger
Susannah Morgan, CEO
Rut Martínez-Alicea, Director of Equity, People & Culture

2. Our Equity Journey

3. The journey started with a CEO transition and a focus on organizational culture…

4. Equality is sameness in inputs.
Equity is sameness in outputs.

7. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes.

8. “Root causes” includes systemic inequities, particularly race.

9. “This is Our Fight”: Highlights of our Equity Work so Far

10. “This is Our Fight”
18 hours of training for every staff member in 2015
Formation of an Equity Team

11. “This is Our Fight” Development of an Equity Lens
Development of an Equity Lens
Concrete goals for diversity hiring
Organizational Assessment in 2016

12. “This is Our Fight”
Board received full day training on EDI in September 2016
Prioritized racial and geographic diversity in Board members in fall 2016

13. “This is Our Fight” Launched public Equity Statement in January 2017
Launched public Equity Statement in January 2017
Began incorporating equity into public policy positions

14. The Impacts of our Equity Work

15. Some Food Today Impacts
Tear down walls between clients and volunteers at pantries
Recruit partner agencies that target underserved cultural and language groups
Translation budget tripled
Changes in food purchase towards whole foods

16. Some Food Tomorrow Impacts
Seed2Supper in Spanish
Mudbone Grown and the Unity Farm
EDI Training for Social Service Directors in Tillamook

17. Some Food for All Impacts
Identifying, recruiting and training people experiencing hunger as advocates.
Advocacy against IP22, removal of sanctuary state status