SGC Catalyst Model Iterative and Inclusive Program Design Model: Embedding Equity in Team Culture

Building responsive programs focused on equity requires creating and maintaining an internal culture anchored in a people-centered approach. This requires pursuing internal opportunities for growth while supporting the development of department-level structures that actively encourage and sustain an equity-centered approach.

Outcomes

• Increases transparency around racial equity commitments and progress
• Grows staff and leadership’s personal and interpersonal knowledge about racial equity
• Strengthens staff and leadership’s ability to implement institutional-level change strategies to advance racial equity
• Cultivates a workplace environment receptive to action for racial equity

How to Do This

• Equitable hiring practices
  Develop language about equity and inclusion and incorporate it in job postings and duty statements.

  “SPECIAL PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS: Demonstrated ability to act independently, open-mindedness, flexibility, and tact. Creative and innovative, working to actively seek ways to use SGC’s approach of ideate / incubate / scale to help solve big-picture challenges in California. The candidate must have a commitment to serving California’s diverse communities and creating a work environment that celebrates diverse backgrounds, cultures, and personal experiences.”

• Advertise job postings to diverse networks (e.g., community organizations, community colleges, etc.).
  Hiring protocols should require demographic diversity – such as in gender, race, and abilities – in hiring panels and include equity and inclusion questions in interviews.
• Embed applicant, awardee, and community perspectives in the team
  Recruit people with lived experience writing, applying for, or implementing projects similar to those your program funds.
• Offer periodic training on individual, institutional, and structural racism.
  Governing for Racial Equity: California’s Capitol Collaborative on Race & Equity - Strategic Growth Council
• Establish an organizational Racial Equity Action Plan and leadership structure to support implementation.