EQUITY RESOURCES
The Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger offers the following resources to ensure organizations have a framework and peer support for implementing equity within their daily practices, policies, and procedures.
Equity Challenge & Peer Learning Series
Join us for a yearlong equity challenge! Through the resources below, Blueprint consultant Vaishnavi Hariprasad guides organizations through a one-year equity challenge to help kickstart or continue their own equity journey.
Access the recordings and slides from our peer learning sessions (held live in 2023 - 2024), which cover different topics:
Session #1: Formulating an Equity Strategy
To kick off, we cover how to formulate a plan for a yearly equity goal or strategy plan, based on the Blueprint’s Equity Continuum. We share a few organizations — each in a different phase of their equity journey ranging from assessing readiness to identifying strategy, etc. — to provide participants with an array of examples that roughly follows the steps outlined below under “other resources.”
View the presentation slides and/or watch the webinar recording (passcode: M4*bS?t3).
Session #2: Equity Assessment
During the second session, we demonstrate the Blueprint's Equity Assessment, which aligns with the Blueprint's Equity Continuum, and provide concrete steps on how to implement the assessment within your own organization.
View the presentation slides and/or watch the webinar recording (passcode: dz#16?kR)
Session #3: Engaging in Equity Work
The third session includes a panel discussion with Blueprint partners who are engaging in equity work, including language justice as well as authentic and equitable community engagement.
Watch the webinar recording (passcode: u&gExLx4); no presentation slides.
Session #4: Forms of Power
In the fourth session, we review the topics covered thus far and discuss the different forms of power and how they impact our work.
View the presentation slides and/or watch the webinar recording.
Session #5: Program Implementation & Evaluation
During the fifth session, we practice using an equity lens for program implementation and evaluation.
Watch the webinar recording (passcode: 2V==UwpI).
Session #6: Review & Evaluation
During the final session, we review all of the content covered from the past 12 months and discuss evaluation.
Other Resources
Formulating an Equity Strategy:
Here’s how to formulate a plan for a yearly equity goal or strategy plan, based on the Blueprint’s Equity Continuum (below):
Step 1: Determine your why — Understand your organization's and community's motivations for equity work.
Step 2: Assess readiness — Identify where you see readiness in your organization.
Step 3: Develop your strategy — Identify areas where your organization is already leaning into equity and opportunities for improvement.
Step 4: Assess inputs and set your goals — Evaluate the resources available (like staff and volunteer time, financial resources, etc.) and establish short-, medium-, and long-term goals.
Step 5: Draft an equity strategy for the year — Create a concrete plan that outlines your organization's actions and commitments.
Blueprint’s Equity Continuum:
This practical, self-assessment tool aims to provide partners — those working to alleviate hunger and poverty — with a way to assess your organization's progression in shifting policies, practices, programs, and measures to advance equitable outcomes. It can be a helpful framework and educational tool for conversations with staff, strategic planning with boards, project and policy development, and advancement of community leadership.
