co-editors: Julie O'Mara & Cathy Gallagher-Louisy
design & production editor: Shawndra Cox-Diaz
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for All People Interested in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
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WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS NEWSLETTER |
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Baker College Makes DEI Training Mandatory |
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Inexpensive Conference
on DEI Research
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How Algorithms Affect You |
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Conversing Candidly With Heart |
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Rohini Anand: Woman of Excellence |
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COVID: Good for People With Disabilities? |
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User Tools – Benchmarks Sampler |
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Free Multicultural Calendar |
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Featured GDIB Expert Panelists |
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Public Courses by EPs & Alliances
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“What sets the GDIB apart from other D&I maturity frameworks is 1) It is truly global. Because it is reviewed regularly by D&I experts from around the world, it reflects a true global view, rather than western leaning, 2) It is holistic. The framework includes organizational change elements, not just talent management and other human resources activities. Creating true inclusion requires a cultural shift, involving organization and people elements."
Nancy L. Ngou
People Advisory Services
Ernst & Young Advisory Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
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HELP US CREATE A WORLD
THAT WORKS FOR ALL!
The Centre for Global Inclusion Needs Your Support
The GDIB has always been a free tool and we want to keep it that way! But this work cannot happen without your support.
Today more than ever, the world needs tools for increasing effectiveness on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The world needs the GDIB, the GDEIB, and The Centre for Global Inclusion!
The newly updated Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Benchmarks will be released in March 2021. Currently, the three co-authors and 111 invited Expert Panelists are conducting the research for the new The Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Benchmarks and Suite of Tools. Practitioners around the world use the GDIB tool to help address systemic racism and sexism and other forms of oppression, financial inequity, health inequities, and the many other challenges that face us today.
Help us continue this important work and keep this tool free for all to use. Please consider becoming a sponsor yourself and/or encouraging your organization to become a sponsor today. Sponsors will be listed in the new 2021 edition and other opportunities are available to sponsors at different levels.
Click below to see photos and bios of the
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"WE'VE LEARNED WHAT WORKS"
-GDIB BEST PRACTICES-
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CITY OF EDMONTON USES GDIB
FOR THE ART OF INCLUSION FRAMEWORK
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This article was written by Jill Chesley, Diversity & Inclusion Lead, Respect in the Workplace, Employee Services, City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. |
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The City of Edmonton, which is the capital of Alberta and one of the northernmost big cities in Canada, boasts a metro population of 1,461,000. Our business plan as a modern municipality identifies our corporate promise: Working together, we enable a better life for Edmontonians.
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“We initiated a project where we solicited art from employees across the organization. Submissions from poetry to fabric art to oil paintings illustrated employees’ understanding of what inclusion means to them.”
Chesley says. “This art made its way into the new Framework document, and helped our employees see that the City’s approach was inclusive of their perspectives.”
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PROFESSOR NANCY DITOMASO GIVES ADVICE FOR DEI ONLINE LEARNING AND SHARES ARTICLES AND VIDEOS TO INCORPORATE IN YOUR TRAINING |
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Dr. Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, is sharing her syllabus for a college-level, undergraduate course on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Nancy is a friend and supporter of The Centre.
She offers this advice, “As all of us are trying to get up to speed for teaching online, it is especially challenging to teach a course that depends on student participation and free and open discussion about difficult subjects in an online format. I have found that it is important to emphasize the guidelines for class participation and to find ways to break up the 3-hour class period with polls, breakout sessions, stopping presentation after 10 minutes or so to give time for student questions, and using videos that work well with the topic and the assigned reading. I also have used tricks like making sure I have a plan for the use of time throughout the class session and keeping track of which students have reported out from breakout groups so that everyone in the class gets a chance to take the lead. Among other things, it helps a great deal to have two monitors so that you can have the discussion on one screen and materials that you might want to share on the other. There are settings within PowerPoint and in Zoom (if you are using that program) to help facilitate these options.”
To see Nancy’s syllabus which lists articles and gives links to many DEI videos, go here. Take a look at the flow and the materials, especially the videos, which you may find useful in your own teaching and training.
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BAKER COLLEGE ACHIEVES BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS IN GDIB CATEGORY 7 – D&I LEARNING & EDUCATION
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This article was submitted by GDIB user, Marie Bonkowski, former Director of Student Affairs, Baker College of Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA. |
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Baker College is a private, nonprofit, multi-campus college based in Jackson, Michigan, USA. It offers in-person and online learning opportunities.
Because DEI is a theme in the College’s strategic plan, the organization has made great strides to increase the DEI competencies of its staff and faculty. The Baker DEI Council – which includes representation from Baker College employees and faculty across the system’s campuses and departments – helps direct DEI initiatives throughout the Baker College System.
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FROM & ABOUT EXPERT PANELISTS & ALLIANCES
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THE 22ND ANNUAL SIOPSA CONFERENCE:
LEADING THROUGH INNOVATION:
NAVIGATING THE NEW WORLD OF WORK
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The SIOPSA Virtual Conference features:
• GDIB Co-authors and The Centre Board Members Nene Molefi and Alan Richter; and GDIB Expert Panelist and 2021 president of SIOPSA, Natasha Winkler-Titus conducting a Master Tutorial on “An Overview on the Application of the GDIB.”
• GDIB Global Inclusion Council member Rohini Anand will add a global perspective to a panel on “State of diversity and inclusion in South Africa.
• EP Natasha Winkler-Titus is also speaking on Experiential Learning as a Catalyst in Cultural Transformation
Dates: December 1-3, 2020
SIOPSA is the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa. Its 22nd annual conference features fresh perspectives, comprehensive learning, and a modern conference experience with a prestigious list of international guest speakers.
With over 50 presenters and over 60 sessions to choose from, there is something for everyone who is interested in organizational psychology.
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I'M LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH
BLACK TINTED SPECTACLES
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Reprinted from LinkedIn and Twitter, this poem is by Expert Panelist, Paul Deemer, Head of D&I at NHS Employers, UK
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I often get asked what it is that drives and motivates me to work in the field of diversity and how I am able to sympathise, empathise and rationalise all of the different perspectives and interests / self-interests that operate around me day to day. In a similar vein, the big question to myself when we started planning our showcase diversity conference earlier this year was: How could we do justice to all of the different aspects of diversity in a meaningful way?
I'm Looking at the World Through Black Tinted Spectacles
I'm looking at the world through black tinted spectacles
Where I'm constantly told that I need to be more respectable
Where the word "opportunity" is written in chalk
And the discussion on "equal" is no more than talk
And sexism and racism are "unconscious" and "unintentional"
I'm looking at the world through black tinted spectacles
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INEXPENSIVE 2020 VIRTUAL
D&I RESEARCH CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON
HOW RESEARCH HELPS ADDRESS ISSUES OF DEI
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Virtual
Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13
Third Annual Conference
Total Conference cost:
$9.99 to $29.99
(depending on student, nonprofit or profit institution status)
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#DIRC20 brings together researchers, corporate D&I professionals, and D&I practitioners to showcase a range of projects and ideas. The program has expanded significantly for 2020 and includes TED-style talks, panels, interactive workshops, fireside chats, 360° Films, interactive simulations and more.
All panels and talks will be pre-recorded and available starting Wednesday, November 11th through Friday, November 13th along with the 360° Films.
Live Q&As and workshops will take place on November 12th & 13th.
Go here for more information and to register.
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VIRTUAL WOMEN AT WORK ONLINE SUMMIT
EXPLORES TOPICS LIKE "WHY THERE IS NO TIME FOR COMPLACENCY ON GENDER EQUALITY"
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d&i Leaders is an Alliance of The Centre for Global Inclusion
January 26, 2021 @ 08:30 to 17:15 (GMT)
Discounts if you register by Dec. 4 & for groups
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Charlotte Sweeney, Expert Panelist and Board Member of The Centre for Global Inclusion, is Chair for the d&i Leaders 2021 Women at Work Online Summit. It will bring together 150+ diversity, inclusion, and HR professionals, committed to tackling gender inequality in the workplace.
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With 17 speakers and a unique online CPD accredited programme featuring one-to-one interviews, case studies; panel discussions, Q&A sessions and online networking tables, you will be inspired to make a difference in your own organisation.
Topics being explored include:
• Why there is no time for complacency when it comes to gender equality at work
• Increasing representation of socially diverse women candidates
• Ensuring the often hidden issue of harassment and personal safety at work
• Monitoring, measuring and reporting progress towards gender parity
• Taking an intersectional approach – the challenges this can pose and steps to overcome them
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HOW ALGORITHMS ARE AFFECTING YOU:
DECODING THE BIAS WITHIN!
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Sponsored by The Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
To be delivered VIRTUALLY!
8:30 to noon PDT
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This exciting discussion, sponsored by The Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, features GDIB Expert Panelist Lorelei Carobolante (who is also a Board member of The Centre for Global Inclusion) and Francesco Carobolante, Principal at IoTissimo® a technology and business strategy firm.
• Learning Goal: Learn what Artificial Intelligence (AI) means, how it impacts you as an individual, your work environment and influences how you and others think, perceive, believe and act. Gain understanding about how AI is affecting diversity and relationships, and what we can do about it.
• Why: We believe that Algorithms, the engine of Artificial Intelligence, are so pervasive that they are profoundly changing the way we experience and do things, and that we should become more aware of how they will affect us as people of multiple identifies intersecting with equity and inclusion.
For more information and to register, visit this site:
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RACE & RACISM: CONVERSING CANDIDLY WITH HEART
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 @ 4 to 5:30pm PST
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Are you ready for a vibrant, thoughtful discussion about race and racism? |
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You are invited to join an interactive dialogue! A diverse, dynamic panel will talk about their navigation in the world of race and racism. Expert Panelist, Lillian Tsai is one of the featured panelists. Small groups will share insights, questions, lessons learned and set the stage for ongoing individual, organizational and community engagement on race and antiracism.
In response to the death of George Floyd, Oregon OD Network issued a Statement on Calls for Racial Justice. OODN also chose to prioritize awareness, appreciation and meaningful action about race equity in our community outreach, strategic planning, programming and pro bono work.
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Location: Virtual via Zoom
Instructions on how to log in will be sent out to all registrants the day of the event. Please note that there is no technical support for this event. Please check your audio and video prior to joining the meeting.
Cost:
OODN Chapter Members & Partner Organizations (ATD, PHRMA): $10. All others: $15
Online registration available until 8:00 am PST the morning of the event. Limited to 100 participants.
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ROHINI ANAND RECEIVES WOMEN OF EXCELLENCE AWARD AND JOINS THE CENTRE'S GLOBAL INCLUSION COUNCIL |
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Working Mother Media is honoring 20 exceptional women “who are successful in their careers and then extend their hands to ensure that other women succeed at their organizations and in their communities.” Rohini, who recently retired as Sodexo’s Senior Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer has received the Legacy Award for her nearly two-decade career at Sodexo.
You can attend the virtual awards ceremony, which will include presentations by Rohini and the two other recipients of the Legacy Award.
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November 13, 2020 from Noon to 2:30pm EST
Rohini recently joined The Centre’s Global Inclusion Council. Its purpose is to advise the Board of Directors on ways to achieve its mission by being a spokesperson for The Centre, proactive with ideas, engaging others, participating in Centre events, and assisting with fundraising by opening doors to potential funders. Go here to learn more and meet the other Council members.
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CORONAVIRUS COULD REVOLUTIONIZE WORK OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES |
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Reprinted with permission. This article originally appeared in The Conversation on May 5, 2020
By: Lisa Schur, Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University and Douglas L. Kruse, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University
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Working from home has become the “new normal” for many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic. While this clearly has its downsides, one group in particular may benefit a great deal: people with disabilities.
This is important because people with disabilities are often at a significant disadvantage in the workplace. Research shows they often face negative stereotypes and attitudes from able-bodied colleagues and are at greater risk of being laid off in a crisis like this one.
The ability to work from home is an accommodation that may especially benefit those with mobility impairments who find it difficult or costly to travel outside the home or those who need flexibility to handle frequent breaks from work, for example for medical or therapy appointments.
As co-directors of the Rutgers Program for Disability Research, we focus on understanding the economic, political and social inclusion of people with disabilities. If a consequence of the pandemic is a new willingness among employers to accommodate work-from-home requests, it may lead to a better future for this marginalized group.
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FREE WHITE PAPER: DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE: HOW TO CREATE MORE INCLUSIVE CAREERS
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This White Paper features contributions by GDIB Expert Panelist Bev Kaye
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There’s no other way to mince it: discrimination and prejudice severely limit career mobility and growth for employees. In their newest research report, Paddle HR dives into how having a diverse and inclusive culture is a proven strategy that attracts top-tier candidates, retains talent, and positively impacts your company’s bottom line. |
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IN THIS WHITE PAPER, YOU WILL:
• Learn how discrimination and prejudice restrict career mobility and growth
• Hear from industry experts, including career mobility pioneer Bev Kaye
• Learn proven strategies to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a seamless part of the career mobility strategy at your company
Click here to download the full white paper.
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2021 GDIB EDITION PROGRESS |
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In each monthly newsletter, we will provide a brief update on our progress to publish the next edition of the GDIB. We have committed to update it approximately every 5 years so that it remains as current as possible. It will continue to be a gift to the field as a free download. Co-authors: Nene Molefi, Julie O’Mara, Alan Richter.
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The three co-authors are sorting through the advice of the 111 Expert Panelists – go here to see their bios, photos, and contact information. For Round Two of the research, the EPs worked in 13 small groups to explore issues across the benchmarks such as race and racism, gender, the “new normal,” and technology, such as Artificial Intelligence and bias.
The 2021 GDEIB has 15 categories rather than 14 that were in the 2017 GDIB. Many of the benchmarks are being strengthened to include the issues mentioned above and to reflect on DEI progress made since the 2017 GDIB. If you want more information on the 2021 GDEIB, go here to see the sponsorship brochure. The goal is to launch the GBEIB March 1, 2021.
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There are a number of free tools available to those who have signed the GDIB permission agreement. We will feature one tool in each newsletter. Go here to see all the tools.
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GDIB BEST PRACTICES SAMPLER
This one-pager lists two sample benchmarks for each of the four groups and GDIB categories. It is useful in presentations or workshops where it is helpful to give participants examples. It is often combined with the GDIB Overview on the front side and the benchmarks sampler on the other side of a handout.
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FREE
Multicultural Calendar
GDIB Expert Panelist, Barbara Deane offers a free monthly multicultural calendar via Diversity Central.
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DEI Futures Project,
Future Trend Cards
A collection of future trends is being curated and posted regularly by GDIB Expert Panelist Margaret Regan.
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FEATURED EXPERT PANELISTS |
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Our GDIB Expert Panelists are the thinkers and contributors behind the GDIB. They have contributed to the development of our latest editions, guide us in preparing for the next update, and serve as strategic partners. This month we feature these four: |
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UPCOMING EDUCATIONAL EVENTS BY OUR ALLIANCES OR OUR EXPERT PANELISTS
OR WHERE THE GDIB IS INCLUDED
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Please send us information if you are presenting on the GDIB (or including it in a presentation – even a short mention) at a conference or workshop that is open to the public. See the User Tools section of the website for slides and handouts you can use. Please let us know if you are attending any of the conferences so we can make connections. And please spread the word about these sessions to your networks. |
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Race & Racism:
Conversing Candidly with Heart
November 11, 2020
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2020 Diversity & Inclusion
Research Conference
November 12 & 13, 2020
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Leading Through Innovation:
Navigating the New World of Work
December 1-3, 2020
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How Algorithms ARE Affecting You:
Decoding the Bias Within
December 2, 2020
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The Foundations to Being an Effective D&I Leader
December 1, 2020
08:45 - 17:00 (all day)
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December 4, 11, and 18, 2020
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d&I Leaders Women at Work
Online Summit 2021
January 26, 2021
08:30 - 17:15 (GMT)
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ACPA21 Convention
Virtual Experience - Priority Registration through 31 October
March 1-17, 2021
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d&i Leaders Global Forum 2021
June 8 & 9, 2021
Online
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PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY EXPERT PANELISTS & ALLIANCES
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Listed here are programs offered by GDIB Expert Panelists and Alliances. Many are offered numerous times on an ongoing basis. While these courses may not be specifically about the GDIB, the content will be helpful in achieving many of the GDIB benchmarks. If you are an Expert Panelist or Alliance and offer programs open to the public, please let us know and we will list here. |
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Training & Education
Courses Including
by The Winters Group
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Recent Webinars
Multiple Topics
by Inclusion Allies Coalition
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Events & Webinars
Multiple Topics
by CCDI
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Webinars
With Topics Including
by Cook Ross
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Educational Video Series
Multiple Topics
by Nene Molefi
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Forthcoming Online Events
Multiple Topics
by d&i Leaders
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Podcast
Multiple Topics
by The Forum
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Free Monthly Webinars
Multiple Topics
by The Forum
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If you want to use the GDIB in conference presentations, blogs, articles, chapters and so forth, we will support by providing slides, handouts, and ideas. Go to our site and explore. We’ve put a lot of effort into providing these resources. Please help by adding to what we offer.
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PRIORITIZING CHILD SAFETY
DURING PANDEMIC
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AEG SUPPORTS
UN's LITERACY DAY
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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES |
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Special Request to GDIB Users
As you know the GDIB is free to users upon signing the permission agreement. We are getting ready to update the GDIB and seek sponsors for this update. The GDIB is free to use AND we ask that users in the past or current users make a special effort to become a sponsor. In exchange we will include your organization logo and/or name on the 2021 edition and the website. Funds are needed now and on an ongoing basis to support the research and publishing of the 2021 edition. It will continue to be available to all for free — that will not change. However, if at all possible and if you or your organization is benefiting from the free GDIB please contact us about sponsoring. Thank you very much.
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SO THAT WE CAN FEATURE YOU
in upcoming editions of the GDIB Newsletter
About the free GDIB: The GDIB—Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards for Organizations Around the World—helps organizations of all sizes, in a variety of sectors and industries, using a variety of approaches to D&I work to achieve high-quality D&I outcomes. First published in 2006, the 2017 edition is authored by Julie O’Mara, Alan Richter, Ph.D., and 95 Expert Panelists. It is presented by The Centre for Global Inclusion. The GDIB and its User Tools are free and may be downloaded at The Centre site.
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