Recommendation
Be explicit about the role DEI plays in your organization and how you are integrating DEI-related efforts and considerations into your funding approach, strategies and external relationships.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusionRelated Resources
Making It Count: The Evolution of the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data Collection
The Center for Effective Philanthropy walks through their organizational learnings around collecting diversity data on gender and race/ethnicity amongst their grantees.
Source: The Center for Effective PhilanthropyFrom Words to Action A Practical Philanthropic Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Recommendations for evaluating a foundation’s history of inequity, helping grantees incorporate DEI practices operationally, collecting diversity data, and introducing new grantees focused on grassroots, intersectional work.
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Source: Barbara Chow, Grantcraft, Foundation CenterA practical guide to outcome-focused philanthropy
A philanthropic framework that emphasizes rigor, results, learning, and adaptation. This guidebook and set of worksheets helps foundation staff integrate this approach across all stages of philanthropic work.
Knowledge Base
Source: Lori Grange, Hewlett FoundationParticipant Bill of Rights
An informed consent document conveying the ways field research participants are entitled to control the interview or observation process. The document outlines rights related to: (1) the power to ask questions, (2) compensation just for showing up, and (3) control over what information is captured and how it’s shared.
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Source: Simply SecureHigh Risk User Research
A video on working with high-risk users or in contexts where security and privacy are critical.
Knowledge Base
Source: Simply SecureIDEO Service Design Tools
An open collection of communication tools used in design proccesses that deal with complex systems.
Knowledge Base
Source: IDEOOn Trust & Transparency: Full Report
Download the full report.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Interview Guide
The interview guide used for the participant interviews during the Partner Perspectives project.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Survey Guide
The survey guide used for the Partner Perspectives project. This was hosted in LimeSurvey an open-source survey tool that can be self-hosted or hosted via Limesurvey’s website.
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Source: Simply Secure