As a company committed to disrupting patterns of inequity and supporting our clients in working toward a more just world, LFA embraces continual learning on the topics of equity, power, privilege, oppression, and justice. In both our consulting work and internal operations, we strive to amplify the voices and experiences of those typically with less power to define success and influence decision-makers. We place a strong emphasis on analyzing issues through a racial justice lens. We are committed to proactively identifying and addressing implicit bias and power dynamics in our own and clients’ work to avoid perpetuating an unjust status quo.
Our focus on equity is nurtured by our Director of Equitable Practice and our Equity Leadership Team, who supports the LFA team in embedding an equity, racial justice, and social justice lens into our consulting work and champions ongoing personal and organizational reflection at LFA.
We have found the following resources invaluable in our own equity learning and consulting journey and hope you will too.
Radical Copyeditor (on using language as a tool for liberation and social change)
LFA’s The Learning Curve blog, including our post about LFA’s Equity Checklists, Practical Tools For Designing And Implementing Culturally Responsive And Inclusive Evaluations
This tool is for funders who are invested in supporting leaders and organizations and are committed to centering racial equity.
This tool provides a menu of practices to help funders move from the “what” of racial equity grantmaking principles to the “how” of those principles. It also provides reflection questions to guide funders of capacity building as we believe that equity-centered learning requires continual self-reflection, analysis, and accountability, along with action.
Not all questions and practices will likely be resonant at any given moment in time, but we invite you to identify which are most relevant right now and keep coming back to this tool as your work evolves and grows