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Elevate: A virtual conference on equity

Welcome to Elevate, a unique virtual conference on equity. In our organization, there is no skill more critical than the ability to leverage our human capital. By optimizing our EQUITY, DIVERSITY, and INCLUSION, we enhance our capacity to increase impact and mission attainment - goals that we are all working hard to achieve!
Please use this page to log in to the conference daily. We are excited to bring you more than 16 live and on-demand sessions, a resource library, steps to create your own equity plan, and an opportunity to build your own personal and professional network.
This session will take a look at how far we as a society have come when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion and will dive into how much work we still have to do.
Empathy is one of the most underdeveloped skills for communicating, building trust, influencing, and resolving conflicts. I will explore how mastering this valuable tool can increase your emotional intelligence and give you the power to have a positive impact on your organization’s vision of a mission-driven culture.
We invite you to begin this conference with an open heart and mind; to realize that almost every problem we face in the world today is a result of "othering" the ways we frame all our conflicts, at every level, as a function of group-based difference. This brief keynote address by Dr. Shakti Butler will set the tone for three days of moving away from othering, and toward a world of belonging, where we are all seen, where we all participate and contribute to our society.
What does it take to be bold enough to find and express your true voice and really be heard? To embrace transformation and live dynamically by accessing your own authenticity each moment of each day? To inspire others to live their own empowered purpose and transcend daily trials with love and joy? We will look at how our unconscious biases affect our interpersonal and organizational behaviors. And we will embrace how personal and communal healing gives us the emotional fortitude we need in each moment to unleash your courage, bring forth your passionate spirit, and be a healing force that holds the power to uplift and transform us ALL. Explore and experience DARE TO BE DAUNTLESS with soul-stirring speaker and award-winning singer Amikaeyla Gaston.
There clearly is a moral imperative to equity work, but for those who live by the numbers, is there truly a business imperative? Join us for this quick look at how to build the “case” for equity work.
Attendees earning the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential have an opportunity to network with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s Workforce Partners in the Exhibit Hall.
We hope you enjoy this movie provided complimentary to you by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. You can watch the movie anytime between April 18-20 by clicking the link above and using the code: elevate with CTC.
In this session you will learn self-management tactics to navigate critical conversations and conflict; identify triggers and challenges to addressing conflict (specifically around equity); increase awareness of interaction between personal identity and conflict and be ready to make a commitment to engage in critical conversations around equity.
This session will explore some of the barriers that exist that prevent people from working together. It will show how barriers can manifest and what non-profit leaders can do to support everyone in their communities. It will give some real-world examples of some challenges that non-profits face engaging some populations and what strategies were used to remove those barriers.
Join a conversation about ways to make hiring practices -- including search strategy, marketing, recruitment, interviewing, evaluations, offers, negotiations and beyond -- more equitable. We'll discuss ways to consider equity in hiring, how it differs or overlaps with diversity and inclusion, recommended practices and lessons learned from some nonprofit talent veterans.
This session will engage participants in religious demographics and attitudes affecting the American workplace. The presentation will include organizational tactics and best practices for managing religious and ethnic diversity. The session will be capped with an exploration of a case-study through a virtual chat-based discussion.
Attendees earning the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential have an opportunity to network with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s Workforce Partners in the Exhibit Hall.
We hope you enjoy this movie provided complimentary to the first 25 attendees. You can watch the movie anytime between April 18-20 by clicking the link above and using the code: WUBNLA. Please note that users will either have to log in or set up an account on vimeo to enter the code and view the film.
This is a part two session from Evangeline's Intersectionality presentation that will cover how to become an ally.
While we all know the issue of gender equity existed long before a hashtag made its way to social media, how can we harness this attention and bring the issue to bare in our various environments, where we work, play and love in order to create a more just and inclusive world? Walk away with practical tips: from using your voice for change, imparting knowledge and data and the realities of taking radical self-care when working in this space. Gender Equity is everyone's problem, yet the social sector often bears the brunt of correcting it. What part will you play?
This session explores several fundamental causes of inequities in nonprofit organizations. Using anti-racism principles and theories, participants will engage in an interactive discussion to develop their racial consciousness in an effort to name, frame, and dismantle racism. All are vital steps in promoting racial equity.
Privilege is a word that sparks all types of reactions in today’s world. Our reality - for all of us - is shaped and influenced by the spaces in which we each experience or are hindered by our own privilege or lack there of . As we work to advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we have a responsibility to be aware of our own lens on life, associated biases and blind spots and how our own privilege influences access to power and ability to advance organizational, institutional and societal equity across the nonprofit sector and beyond. Be an Equity, D&I ‘gladiator’! Let’s talk privilege.
Paul Schmitz will share experience from his 25 years of work in leadership and community development, and how equity and racial equity need to be central to both in order to achieve significant and lasting impact.