This resource offers insights, recommendations, practical tips, and provocations to help you transform your organization’s governance in ways that shift power to impacted communities.
Go beyond simplistic measures of diversity and use an intentional power analysis and equity lens to keep the focus where it belongs — on the people and communities most harmed by structural racism and other systemic inequities.
Examining and reworking your foundation’s culture and power dynamics is part of an ongoing process that must begin in the early stages of board transformation and be regularly revisited over time.
Once examinations of your foundation’s culture, practices, and structures are underway, the next work is relational — finding, engaging, and welcoming impacted community members in ways that are genuine, mutual, and ongoing.
This is not a routine board refresh; it’s an opportunity to shape new power dynamics and structures and co-create a new culture around governance.
Foundations vary widely in context and approach, yet a core set of elements can support any genuine effort to shift power to impacted communities through governance.
