CARE Resources
Community, Access, Respect & Equity (CARE) Resources
AL!VE's CARE Resources are curated articles, videos, podcasts, and tools support volunteer engagement leaders who are committed to building inclusive, equitable, and accessible volunteer programs. All resources below are free to explore. AL!VE members receive access to an expanded, members-only library of curated DEAI resources, toolkits, and implementation guides.
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Access & Disability Inclusion
- The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, including as amended in 2008
- From Points of Light, a set of eight strategies to be used in creating a more inclusive volunteer program and engaging diverse and immigrant volunteers.
- People with disabilities have spent their entire lives breaking down barriers and finding innovative ways to be successful. This LinkedIn article, Not All Disabilities Are Visible, explores some of the other invisible qualities people with disabilities tend to possess, such as innovation, flexibility, and resiliency.
Diversity & Inclusion
- Companies aren't expected to make a business case for hiring male candidates--so why is this expected in hiring women, disabled, and/or BIPOC candidates? In case yours does, LinkedIn brings readers 40 Sources for a Strong Business Case for D&I.
- Jerome Tennille, renowned volunteer/employee engagement expert and leader in the development or philanthropic strategies and sustainability, examines the principles of anti-rascism and diversity in volunteer engagement in a two-post series, Fighting Racism Through Diverse and Inclusive Volunteer Engagement part 1 and Fighting Racism Through Diverse and Inclusive Volunteer Engagement part 2."
- Tobi Johnson invites readers to explore their unique opportunities to dismantle barriers and connect communities through inspired volunteer engagement in A Guide to Promoting Inclusive Volunteering.
LGBTQIA+
- Want to learn more about LGBTQIA+ issues, but don't know where to start? Start here, with the United Way LGBTQIA+ Reading List.
- The American Alliance of Museums' (AAM) LGBTQ+ Alliance is a professional resource network that provides a forum for communication and dialogue and is committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and inquiry with particular respect to sexual orientation and gender identity within museums.
Race & Racial Equity
- The National Museum of African-American History and Culture academic article, Historical Foundations of Race, identifies the modern-day use of the term race as a human invention and explores the reasons it developed.
- Lisa Joyslin, Inclusive Volunteerism Program Manager at the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration (MAVA), discusses the ways volunteerism is built on systemic racism in Recognizing Racism in Volunteer Engagement.
- Glossary of Racial Equity Terms: Becoming educated on these terms is a first step in practicing greater inclusivity and respectfulness inside and outside the workplace.
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Access & Disability Rights
- Fight for Disability Rights (21:16): In this TED Talk, Judith Heumann, internationally-recognized leader in the disability community and lifelong civil rights advocate, discusses the battle for disability rights and why the fight is ongoing.
LGBTQIA+
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, National Geographic released Stonewall at 50. This is a series of personal testimonials to LGBTQIA+ people's resilience and resistance, depicted in photos, quotes, and short videos.
Board & Leadership Diversity
- In March 2022, AL!VE presented a webinar titled 'Calling in Vs Calling Out: Diversifying Your Board'. Watch the webinar recording and view the slide deck here.
Race & Systemic Inequity
- Antiracist Baby (5:32): Ibram X. Kendi discusses the role parents and educators play in teaching young children to be anti-racist, emphasizing the importance of starting conversations with kids about racism at a young age.
- How American Schools Keep Kids in Poverty (13:41): In this TED talk, Kandice Sumner, educator, examines the ways in which the denial of resources to schools in communities of color across the country contributes to the steady erosion of these schools' students' potential.
- Systemic Racism, Explained (4:23): Everyone is talking about systemic racism, but what exactly does it entail? This short video from Act.TV takes a close look at what systemic racism is and suggests ways it can be dismantled. It includes sources for each of its points and links to further reading.
- Mia Birdsong interviews Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in the TED talk An Interview With The Founders of Black Lives Matter (16:06). Their advice on hot to participate in ensuring freedom for everybody: join something, start something, and sharpen each other, so that we can all rise.
Trauma-Informed Practice
- What Is Historical Trauma? (5:53) Genocide, enslavement, forced relocation, and destruction of cultural practices are traumatic experiences forced on communities; the effects reverberate over generations. Historians refer to this phenomenon as historical trauma. This short video examines the effects of historical trauma on the well-being of future generations.
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Access & Disability
- On NPR Morning Edition, the article and accompanying podcast Workers with Disabilities (4:13) exposes business' financial exploitation of workers with disabilities, made possible by US labor law dating from 1938.
Race & Identity
- All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) that explores what it means to be a Native person today. Each episode in the series investigates a different issue, ranging from mascots and food sovereignty to literature and politics.
- In this episode of the Seeing White podcast, How Race Was Made (28:35), John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika takes a deep dive into the notion of whiteness. Where does it come from? What does it mean? Who or what is it for?
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Access & Inclusive Design
- Refer to UX Design's Designing Forms for Inclusion to build forms with gender diversity, inclusiveness, and thoughtfulness.
Diversity & Self-Reflection
- Take the Check Your Privilege test from Buzzfeed to test your privilege with a self-assessment.
- Curious about your own biases? Take some or all of Harvard's Project Implicit Bias Self-Tests.
- United Way's Cultural Competence Self-Assessment helps you explore your cultural competence and skills, knowledge, and self-awareness.
Race & Racial Justice
- Racial Equity Tools' Racial Equity Toolkit provides tools, research, tips, and ideas for people who want to participate in working towards racial justice.
Further Reading
- American Alliance of Museums: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion is AAM's DEAI-related resource page for all things in the museum world.
- American Alliance of Museums: Museums and Equity: Volunteers is a blog post focusing on equity and access in volunteering, and the ways museums can use their volunteer programs to share the wealth.
- Energ!ze brings us an excerpt from Cultural Awareness, a book exploring the many benefits that learning about different cultures can provide.
- Energ!ze provides a transcript of a presentation at the 1996 International Conference on Volunteer Administration, Diversity and Volunteerism, that examines the ways population diversity is increasing and calls upon volunteer organizations to identify new ways to reach target audiences.
- This article from Energ!ze, Whom Don't We Ask to Volunteer?, identifies the wisdom of casting a wide, inclusive net when seeking volunteers--often, they come from unexpected populations!
- VolunteerPro's Building Bridges to Better Volunteer Diversity and Inclusion acknowledges that volunteerism is a powerful way to connect people, and provides the reader with five strategies to address any power imbalances and move closer to true equity.
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