Associated Black Charities- Racial Equity in Workforce Development Work
Tiffani Truss is the workforce strategist at Associated Black Charities, along with Jon Law who is a team member.
ABC focuses on transactional change work: BCM (volunteer career mentoring program for low wage workers that pairs established leaders/mentors with low wage workers)
Community of Practice: focused on building a collective capacity to implement a racial equity lens to workforce development work, also developing common metrics
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/identifying-and-moving-away-from-white-dominant-culture-tickets-109680449176- next meeting July 10th
Board development: to encourage Black community members who are interested in serving on non-profit boards. Have served about 300 professionals who are interested in serving on boards.
Transformational work: advocacy around policies that address the impacts of systemic racism and white supremacy
ABC offers customizable workshops, presentations (fee for service). Don’t do anti-racism training, focus on organizational change and developing a racial equity lens, as well as reports
Can design trainings based on the needs of the organizations, will do an assessment when they come in
Have produced a 10 essential questions series of resources
-philanthropy
-workforce development: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5728e34fd51cd4809e7aefe0/t/5ef0f0bd16217c2827f10469/1592848573424/10+Essential+Questions+for+Workforce+Development.pdf
-employer/HR
-business owner
Lou: employers who reached out for their work–Civic Works,
Lisa: Civic Works has developed an assessment tool that they use to evaluate employers and that includes racial equity–they are working to more completely include racial equity
Elizabeth will send out the 10 essential questions materials
Request for Proposals For Corporate Contribution Program
The Committee reviewed the documents which had been sent out earlier in the week and made the following comments:
Grant Review Committee: member of workforce roundtable explicitly stated
Lou proposed having representatives from 7 neighborhoods
Members of the Review Committee cannot be applying
Lou suggested identifying other funders that could fund other projects
Lisa hopes that the committee recognizes that this kind of grant coming to the SWP is a recognition of the SWP
Please let Elizabeth know if you’re interested in being on the Grant Review Committee
Ivan: suggested using numbers rather than percentage
Lisa: suggested adding collaborations with other Southwest Partnership community organizations to the rubric
Bif suggested looking at Carnegie Mellon
Diana: South Baltimore Learning Center will be having GED classes at the new CEC
