Racial equity resource directory

Aeriel and Kyle Ashlee, co-founders of Ashlee Consulting, provide engaging keynotes and trainings on vulnerability, identity, and storysharing as tools to foster space for bold conversations. They are award-winning authors of VITAL: A Torch for Your Social Justice Journey, a book for incorporating social justice into everyday life.

A toolkit for sparking conversations and building an inclusive culture in the workplace. This toolkit is about shifting the focus of diversity efforts from an exercise in risk mitigation to a source for growth. This initiative is about unlocking the full potential of every individual, no matter their background or identity, and creating an environment where people thrive. When organizations achieve a truly inclusive culture, they achieve higher financial performance, have a more satisfied workforce, and attract the best talent.

60 minute solo performance created to inspire open and honest conversations about race and diversity followed by a facilitated discussion.

The Center for Economic Inclusion fosters shared accountability for creating a racially inclusive, equitable and just economy and equips public and private sector leaders and employers with the skills to dismantle institutional racism and institutionalize inclusive intersectional policies, practices and behaviors to close racial employment, income and wealth gaps.

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Toolkit is an affordable, organization-focused, self-administered assessment for organizations wishing to build a more effective and reflective organization from the inside out. It’s made up of three distinct parts, and is intended to assess three important components of an organization: people, processes, and power structures.

CJMM offers tours, events, advocacy, speakers, and educational materials to discuss events around the Duluth lynching and current racism. DVDs "Bringing the Truth to Light: A Community Forum on Racism Today" and "Racial Equity in Education" are available. CJMM hosts an annual dinner to recognize people committed to racial justice.

CAAL speaks and trains on building social justice movements that center communities who are most impacted by systemic oppression. Topics include community power building, elements of social justice movements, building movements that center whole identities, anti-racism and xenophobia, cultural fluency, and Asian American and Asian Minnesotan context.

CommonSense Consulting@Work provides its clients with strategies and solutions that foster workplace inclusion, engagement and performance.
CSC partners with clients that have to address the change in customer and employee demographics as well as workplace culture and environment. CSC provides the tools and strategies to value, respect and leverage diversity and allow clients to achieve their business plans. CSC provides value-added scheduling, services, and collaborative relationships for the right price point.

Minnesota's only Muslim civil rights advocacy organization, CAIR-MN trainings include Islam and Muslim community, Somali community/culture, diversity and inclusion, media, and civil rights. "Positive Interactions," an annual day-long seminar for employers and law enforcement, has trained almost all major Minnesota corporations on Islamophobia and religious accommodation.

At Courageous Change Collective we seek to cultivate, support and sustain the conditions needed for reflection, growth and transformation. Through a deep investment in effective process, we center the how so we can successfully tackle what matters most.

We design and facilitate in partnership with you, co-creating customized experiences that will leverage your strengths and develop solutions grounded in your reality.

Our approach is multi-faceted and flexible, drawing on a variety of frameworks and integrating our knowledge and training in the Art of Hosting, Liberating Structures, Network Weaving, the Intercultural Development Inventory and Human Systems Dynamics.

We have experience designing and facilitating a variety of training formats and learning communities such as:

• Capacity Building Training
• Communities of Practice
• Cohort-Based Learning
• Coaching

Through a collaborative process, we design trainings that fit your needs and set up your team and organization for success.