DEI strategy, training and implementation for nonprofits
Your commitment to diversity and inclusion is genuine but entirely informal — there is no strategy, no data, and no accountability for whether anything is actually changing.
What you'll achieve
A credible, actionable DEI strategy embedded in your hiring, culture, and leadership practices, with clear goals and a way to track them.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Conduct a DEI audit, facilitate staff and leadership sessions to surface lived experience and priorities, and co-design a strategy with measurable commitments.
Key deliverables
- DEI audit report, strategy document, training session for staff and managers, implementation roadmap, suggested metrics and review process.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
- 5.1C062
Equitable Compensation Playbook
A playbook for HR and reward professionals in international NGOs who want to rethink pay policy. It aims to help organisations reduce pay inequality, including gaps between national and international staff, and make reward more transparent. It comes with a companion Excel worksheet, a video on how to use it and a podcast discussion. Organisations use it to review their current approach and plan changes to compensation policy and practice.
CurrentKey manual or guideFree - 5.1C064
Human Resources (HR) Toolkit for Small and Medium Nonprofit Actors
A 32-page toolkit for small and medium nonprofit, humanitarian and development organisations that want a formal system for managing people. It offers guidance, tips and checklists for writing or strengthening HR policies, plus a set of questions to review an existing HR framework, find gaps and set priority actions. It is written for HR staff, programme and operations teams, and finance and admin managers who handle basic HR.
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