Workshops
This workshop will help our grantee partners understand what a racial equity lens is, how it can serve their organizational mission and vision, and how to begin to develop one that best suits their organization’s needs.
Date: January 22, 2021 (9:00-11:30)
Facilitator: Sarah Bounse, MPH
Sarah Bounse is a facilitator, strategist and trainer who works alongside organizations to best serve their mission and vision. Sarah’s expertise lies in equity work – she has developed and created internal equity infrastructure, led and facilitated anti-racism initiatives, and led and developed authentic community engagement strategies in her current and past roles. Sarah’s work primarily focuses on internal efforts to institutionalize and operationalize racial equity and anti-racism efforts within institutions. She has worked for local health departments, including Metro Nashville Public Health Department and Knox County Health Department, as well as academic medical centers to increase the knowledge, understanding and application of equity into those organizations. As an independent consultant, Sarah has also worked alongside small and large nonprofits, including organizations in Nashville and Knoxville, TN. Sarah has a Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.
Location: Zoom; Register here. Registration for each workshop closes two business days prior to the workshop date.
This workshop will help our grantee partners understand why staff and board diversity is critical to the success of their organization’s mission and goals. It will also define and explain why intersectionality is important in conversations around diversity, how to examine data about their organization’s diversity at all levels (stakeholders, clients, community partners, as well as staff and board), and strategies to increase diversity at those levels.
Date: February 15, 2021 (1:00-3:30)
Facilitator: Sarah Bounse, MPH
Sarah Bounse is a facilitator, strategist and trainer who works alongside organizations to best serve their mission and vision. Sarah’s expertise lies in equity work – she has developed and created internal equity infrastructure, led and facilitated anti-racism initiatives, and led and developed authentic community engagement strategies in her current and past roles. Sarah’s work primarily focuses on internal efforts to institutionalize and operationalize racial equity and anti-racism efforts within institutions. She has worked for local health departments, including Metro Nashville Public Health Department and Knox County Health Department, as well as academic medical centers to increase the knowledge, understanding and application of equity into those organizations. As an independent consultant, Sarah has also worked alongside small and large nonprofits, including organizations in Nashville and Knoxville, TN. Sarah has a Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.
Location: Zoom; Register here. Registration for each workshop closes two business days prior to the workshop date.
This workshop will help our grantee partners understand the overall tenets of community engagement, why defining “community” is critical to how their organization engages with said communities, and how community engagement is a strategy to advance racial equity. It will also define what the “community engagement spectrum” is and how it can help their organization determine specific strategies, and what strategies exist for authentic and ethical community engagement.
Date: March 5, 2021 (9:00-12:00)
Facilitator: Sarah Bounse, MPH
Sarah Bounse is a facilitator, strategist and trainer who works alongside organizations to best serve their mission and vision. Sarah’s expertise lies in equity work – she has developed and created internal equity infrastructure, led and facilitated anti-racism initiatives, and led and developed authentic community engagement strategies in her current and past roles. Sarah’s work primarily focuses on internal efforts to institutionalize and operationalize racial equity and anti-racism efforts within institutions. She has worked for local health departments, including Metro Nashville Public Health Department and Knox County Health Department, as well as academic medical centers to increase the knowledge, understanding and application of equity into those organizations. As an independent consultant, Sarah has also worked alongside small and large nonprofits, including organizations in Nashville and Knoxville, TN. Sarah has a Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.
Location: Zoom; Register here. Registration for each workshop closes two business days prior to the workshop date.
This workshop will help grantees understand the ecological model of racial equity (individual, interpersonal, institutional, systemic, and ideological). It will also examine their organization’s programs to determine the level(s) their programs focus on and determine what strategies exist at each level to advance racial equity.
Date: April 23, 2021 (9:00-11:30)
Facilitator: Sarah Bounse, MPH
Sarah Bounse is a facilitator, strategist and trainer who works alongside organizations to best serve their mission and vision. Sarah’s expertise lies in equity work – she has developed and created internal equity infrastructure, led and facilitated anti-racism initiatives, and led and developed authentic community engagement strategies in her current and past roles. Sarah’s work primarily focuses on internal efforts to institutionalize and operationalize racial equity and anti-racism efforts within institutions. She has worked for local health departments, including Metro Nashville Public Health Department and Knox County Health Department, as well as academic medical centers to increase the knowledge, understanding and application of equity into those organizations. As an independent consultant, Sarah has also worked alongside small and large nonprofits, including organizations in Nashville and Knoxville, TN. Sarah has a Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.
Location: Zoom; Register here. Registration for each workshop closes two business days prior to the workshop date.
This workshop will help our grantee partners understand how organizational internal policies are directly connected to racial equity (or inequity). It will also explore the types of organizational policies that exist within most organizations that can be changed to advance racial equity and what internal policies are most critical to creating racial equity within their organization.
Date: May 3, 2021 (1:00-3:00)
Facilitator: Sarah Bounse, MPH
Sarah Bounse is a facilitator, strategist and trainer who works alongside organizations to best serve their mission and vision. Sarah’s expertise lies in equity work – she has developed and created internal equity infrastructure, led and facilitated anti-racism initiatives, and led and developed authentic community engagement strategies in her current and past roles. Sarah’s work primarily focuses on internal efforts to institutionalize and operationalize racial equity and anti-racism efforts within institutions. She has worked for local health departments, including Metro Nashville Public Health Department and Knox County Health Department, as well as academic medical centers to increase the knowledge, understanding and application of equity into those organizations. As an independent consultant, Sarah has also worked alongside small and large nonprofits, including organizations in Nashville and Knoxville, TN. Sarah has a Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.
Location: Zoom; Register here. Registration for each workshop closes two business days prior to the workshop date.
This workshop will help our grantee partners understand what white supremacy cultural values mean and look like within organizations, what transformative cultural values (collaboration, communication, shared leadership, etc.) mean and look like within organizations, and will examine strategies to help their organizations practice those transformative cultural values.
Date: May 17, 2021 (1:00-3:30)
Facilitator: Sarah Bounse, MPH
Sarah Bounse is a facilitator, strategist and trainer who works alongside organizations to best serve their mission and vision. Sarah’s expertise lies in equity work – she has developed and created internal equity infrastructure, led and facilitated anti-racism initiatives, and led and developed authentic community engagement strategies in her current and past roles. Sarah’s work primarily focuses on internal efforts to institutionalize and operationalize racial equity and anti-racism efforts within institutions. She has worked for local health departments, including Metro Nashville Public Health Department and Knox County Health Department, as well as academic medical centers to increase the knowledge, understanding and application of equity into those organizations. As an independent consultant, Sarah has also worked alongside small and large nonprofits, including organizations in Nashville and Knoxville, TN. Sarah has a Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.
Location: Zoom; Register here. Registration for each workshop closes two business days prior to the workshop date.