Consider a Comprehensive Inclusiveness Initiative

This door provides opportunities to explore a comprehensive inclusiveness initiative, to consider a holistic rather than piece meal approach to the area of inclusiveness.Some organizations may choose to approach their inclusiveness work by focusing on specific individual activities - finding particular topics of interest for the immediate future. (The other doors on this website will be of interest to these organizations.)

Other organizations may choose to approach their inclusiveness work by focusing comprehensively on multiple activities that would include research gathering and analysis and detailed action plans. Such a comprehensive approach is what The Denver Foundation calls an Inclusiveness Initiative - a concerted, organized effort on the part of an organization to become more inclusive.  

Inclusiveness at Work: How to Build Inclusive Nonprofit Organizations details an Inclusiveness Initiative, a six-step process that includes (1) creating an inclusiveness committee; (2) engaging in training; (3) defining inclusiveness and creating the case for inclusiveness for the organization; (4) completing and analyzing information gathered; (5) completing an inclusiveness blueprint); and (6) implementing the blueprint. The steps are sub-divided into 18 modules. Inclusiveness at Work includes 218 pages of narrative, 220 pages of worksheets, and 35 pages of appendices. The complete content of Inclusiveness at Work has been reconfigured for this website: it is not longer within a module framework, but by individual topics.

To consider a comprehensive inclusiveness initiative, click on the topics to the left. Or purchase a hard copy of Inclusiveness at Work: How to Build Inclusive Nonprofit Organizations.  (NOTE TO PURCHASERS: Since the workbook was published in 2005, the content has remained the same in the print version. When we launched the Inclusiveness Project Web site in 2008, we adapted that content for the Web site with only minor changes (e.g., not using the word "module"; not numbering worksheets by chapter numbers of the print version). But in late 2009, we made substantive changes in the content of Step 3 (Making the Case). We encourage you to print off the new narrative and worksheets from the Web site and insert them in your hard copy of the workbook, so that you are working with the most current content. You can find these materials at www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org/step-3-making-case. The hard copy of the workbook is still a medium that many people prefer using. And users of the hard copy can be assured that we will inform you of future content changes that are posted to the Web site.)