Resources

Starting Your Personal Social Justice Work

Holding Yourself Accountable for Your Allyship, Community Centric Fundraising (February 2023)
Resistance in a Time of Rising Facism, Allyship in Action (February 2025)

Starting Your Organization’s Social Justice Work

To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems – Not People, Harvard Business Review (2022)
Mapping Our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems, Deepa Iyer, Building Movement Project. SM, © 2020 Deepa Iyer. All rights reserved. All prior licenses revoked
Moving Towards Conflict for the Sake of Good Strategy, Yotam Marom, Medium.com (January 2020)

Grounding Your Work in Central Oregon and Oregon

An Abridged History of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ People, and Disabled People in Oregon and Central Oregon (last updated April 2025) | Text Only for Screen Readers
Complex(ion) Zine, Central Oregon BIPOC
SUS A Very Queer Magazine
100 Year Retrospective: The Bend Colored Men’s Business Club (February 2025) | Member Stories (May 2025)
A Tribute to Braceros in Central Oregon (August 2025) | Un Homenaje a los Braceros en Oregón Central (Agosto 2025)

White Supremacy Culture

Tema Okun, White Supremacy Culture (May 2021)
20 Subtle Ways White Supremacy Manifests In Nonprofit and Philanthropy, Nonprofit AF (June 2021)

Non-Profit Organizations

Rad Ops Resources, Radical Operations
Vu Le, NonprofitAF.com
A New Framework for Boards, Nonprofit Quarterly (February 2024)

Equity Lens and Frameworks

Equity and Inclusion Lens Guide, Nonprofit Association of Oregon (2019)
Equity and Inclusion Handbook, Oregon Humanities (2017)

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