shifting towards antiracist liberation
Center for Story Based Strategy
The United States has a centuries-long history of racism that has impacted who we are, how our institutions were structured and function today, and how we define success. We are committed to addressing racially disproportionate outcomes in Black, Indigenous and other Communities of Color using an explicit set of antiracist principles for the work done both inside and outside of organizations.
Equity & Results builds from antiracist knowledge and concepts developed over centuries by scholars, elders and organizers, including the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, to guide our disciplined approach to systems change.
connecting Results-Based Accountability + Antiracist principles
Many people in organizations are doing their best to help people, but do not hold themselves accountable to the impact of their work or have outcomes that are superficial. If we are serious about undoing racism then we need to be disciplined in our approach and ensure that our hard work produces real change for Black, Indigenous and all People of Color (BIPOC) inside of our organizations and in our external work.
It is also very common that groups do not know how to bridge the gap between a commitment to racial equity and their day-to-day work - they don’t know how to move from the head (understanding) and heart (feeling) to the hands (or action). But when an organization with a deep understanding of antiracism through personal experience and institutional education and training uses a results driven methodology the group moves from good intentions to transformation. Antiracist Results-Based Accountability (AR RBA) begins with impact and backs into solutions to ensure that the are selected with an eye to the root causes of the racial inequity.
It requires organizations to deeply consider the answer to the question, how will we know that people are better off as a result of our work? (Mark Friedman in Trying Hard Is Not Good Enough) as a central part of a rigorous process to making sure that Black, Indigenous and all People of Color (BIPOC) are centering in our work.
Antiracist RBA supports the work of individual organizations or collaborative/collective impact efforts to do small and large systems change work that challenges the status quo and builds the personal and organizational “muscle” to continuously refine work through learning loops or praxis.
It requires that organizations bring Black, Indigenous and all People of Color (internal staff, external partners or recipients of services like small business owners of Color, parents, community advocates) into powerful decision making roles and to reorient work towards new priorities.
our clients
All SECTORS COMMITTED TO RACIAL EQUITY
We work with organizations and collective impact collaboratives in the public, nonprofit, and racial justice-committed private sector (including Boards) whose work ranges from local to international scale.
our work
DESIGNING Racially EQUITABLE SYSTEMS
Shifts internal organizational culture and transforms leadership structures
Shifts internal practices, especially those core to racial equity, (i.e. hiring/retention/promotion, contracts and procurement, grant making, board capacity)
Works meaningfully with cross-sector collaborations to align work around common outcomes with Black, Indigenous and all People of Color
Builds grantee capacity to embed Antiracist RBA into their work, i.e. human service, public health, public-private sector alignment, education
our impact
TRANSFORMING culture and Results in the Long-Term
Our results show that building the capacity to doggedly focus on antiracist impact produces culture changes and strategies that impacts individuals and organizations. Our contracts are long-term because we know that a deep investment of time and energy is required to shift institutional and structural patterns to produce racial equity. With our support, organizations have changed their hierarchical structures and grant-making processes to ensure impact for Black, Indigenous and all People of Color, cities have seen the gap close in 3rd grade reading scores for BIPOC students, and government agencies have shifted their practices to align with community values and demands.
our services
We provide customized, co-designed scopes with organizations/partnerships that lead to results frameworks that identify strategies for antiracist impact and a path forward. We are experts in working with both newly forming organizations/collaboratives as well as reorienting longstanding institutions and partnerships. Over time, doing work in this way supports clients to internalize an antiracist results process and culture change required to do meaningful work regardless of where they begin.
Using a multiracial co-facilitation model, the Equity & Results approach brings together the right experts to model racial equity principles. We encourage our clients to complete Antiracist Foundational Training prior to or concurrent with a contract with Equity & Results to ensure that teams are ready to shift away from business as usual towards new, impactful work.
long-term engagements
Equity & Results offers engagements, ranging from 6 months to multiyear contracts.
Engagements generally begin with a focus on the internal organizational work to operationalize racial equity principles with staff and leadership or externally with clients/grantees/partners through a series of in-person and virtual engagements. Over time, organizations move beyond their initial focus to expand into other areas of organizational impact for expanded impact.
We also work as part of an ecosystem of extraordinary antiracist and racial equity organizations to ensure that client needs are met - our Antiracist Ecosystem is focused on institutional and structural change and we work together in seamless concert.
Rates available upon request.
workshops
An important part of our model includes hands-on, interactive, sessions that are developmental, build over time and are applied to the real work of the group. These workshops are a critical component in setting foundational knowledge of the mindset and methodology of doing work to disrupt racial inequity. These sessions can range from 10-150 participants.
speaking
While we do not provide one-off training, we are happy to be invited as keynote speakers at conferences, universities, annual meetings and Board Meetings that are focused on antiracist results.
coaching
We offer individual and team coaching only for our long-term clients who need additional help with strategic mapping, organizational management, team management and more.
examples of past and present clients
testimonials
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E&R in action
