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Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
As we work to becoming an anti-racist organization, Equity in the Center's "Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture" has become a powerful resource for TNDC. This resource offers a framework for how to shift a nonprofit's mindsets, practices, and systems to center racial equity.
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Dare to Lead
Many staff members and senior management have been encouraged to read "Dare to Lead" by Brene Brown to become more courageous and brave leaders in our work.
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Food as Medicine
Much of our Food & Wellness work centers around the idea of food as medicine. We are working on innovative ways to encourage our neighbors to learn about healthy food and take their health journey into their own hands
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National Young Farmers Coalition: Racial Equity Toolkit
These are valuable Racial Equity resources to help anyone, not just coalition members, raise their awareness around the racial inequities in farming, food spaces, and beyond. As stated by the coalition: "This toolkit does not detail a universally applicable pathway toward resolving pervasive racialized oppression; it is an initial resource for people who are overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the problem, and need help determining how to start dismantling racism in their communities."
Segregated by Design
This short animation "Segregated By Design" by Mark Lopez and Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.