Partner With Us & Invest in our Work.
We invite you to join us in partnership. One that is non-extractive, that is based upon consent, that prioritizes the health and wellbeing of the collective over the individual. Within this way of working, partners respect and advocate for collective and consensual knowledge generation, they utilize their power and privilege to create platforms for others, they embrace true humility, recognizing that they also get things wrong, and they accept true accountability of their actions.
Get in touch with The Racial Equity Index here.
Support us on Patreon here.
“The opportunity in working with the Racial Equity Index is really about investigating at the heart of the implementation: what are the textures of humanity, what are the ways in which people are silenced, what are the ways people are invited to the table and what does that invitation look like...This radical investigation of our ways of working and undoing our ways of working is an opportunity for philanthropists to put their money where their mouths are…So here is the Racial Equity Index - a movement born out of solidarity, and investigations of power - people who are asking hard questions about racial equity in global development - would it not be wonderful as a philanthropist to take this opportunity to listen to what is emerging in the data and look at the commitment to resourcing BIPOC led organisations.”
-Masana Mulaudzi, peer reviewer for the Racial Equity Index
Funding Partners
The Racial Equity Index received a grant in support of our collective care and wellbeing from The Pocressi Initiative. We value recognition of the toll of our work at the Racial Equity Index (A volunteer-led BIPOC index working to build the first-ever index for racial equity in global development). From the ongoing racism and racial violence we continue to endure individually as BIPOC people actively working in global development, to the collective burden, retraumatization, grief, and more that we endure in demanding accountability from the global development sector; focused support from funders on our collective wellbeing is welcomed. We encourage all funders in the philanthropic space to acknowledge the additional burden that BIPOC groups and collectives like ours face in the global development sector and ensure that funding and grants have built-in collective wellbeing and mental wellbeing support.
This is the first grant and funding that the Racial Equity Index has received since our inception in July 2020.
The Pocressi Initiative is a UK-based philanthropic and collaboration platform that works in the prevention and rehabilitation of abstinence addiction treatment and criminal justice. Through providing grants and other types of flexible support, they partner with grass-root organisations that work to create safer environments and systems for oppressed people to live in.
Strategic Partners
The Center for Intersectional Justice is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 and based in Berlin. We engage in advocacy, policy-oriented research and offer training to make diversity, anti-discrimination and equality policies more inclusive and effective in addressing structural inequality in Europe. CIJ seeks to advance social justice from an intersectional perspective across Europe, promoting diversity and tackling inequalities and discrimination based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age and nationality.
CharitySoWhite’s vision is of a charity sector that is taking the lead on tackling and rooting out racism. We want to see a shift in fundamental structures across the charity sector, where our sector, leaders and decision-makers reflect the communities that we work with.
Unless we take serious and urgent action to tackle racism, social justice will not and cannot prevail. This will take investment and commitment and means leaders prioritising taking action and accountability, in order to bring about systemic change.
“We don’t want to burn down the sector, we want to make it better.” - #CharitySoWhite
Moore Impact is the fiscal sponsor and partner to the Racial Equity Index. We value our support of leaders intimately involved in and committed to changing the status quo around perpetual inequity. Moore Impact takes an intentional approach to reverse the lack of investment in Communities of Color by ensuring that change-makers are able to access the support and financial tools needed to create systemic change, increase access and build generational wealth.
Learning Partner
The Racial Equity Index (REIndex) and The Better Org (TBO) are excited to announce a new joint learning partnership focused on going beyond the global development sector’s standard of DEI (Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion) and exploring the broadness and depth of anti-racism and racial equity in global development organisations.
The partnership between the REIndex and TBO will combine specific expertise in transforming systemwide practice through the advocacy and development of racial equity accountability systems. The Better Org will utilize the extensive research and tools developed by the Racial Equity Index to support organisations in their racial equity audits and support the Racial Equity Index in their ongoing learnings on racial equity practices within organisations in the global development sector. The collective members at The Racial Equity Index acknowledge the intentional approach of The Better Org which stands out from other consultancies operating in the DEI space across the global development sector. Additionally, the alignment of values and care-centered approach between both organizations is something that matters to us deeply to both The Better Org and The Racial Equity Index.
The Racial Equity Index is an accountability tool that will measure racial equity (and inequity) within and across the Global Development sector. Created by a BIPOC-founded and led global group of people who have all experienced racism and racial violence in global development, this groundbreaking tool will critically demonstrate and encourage transparency and active response from actors within this space to address structural and systemic racism with their own institutions, organizations, approaches, and practice. The Racial Equity Index aims to dismantle all forms of racism within the Global Development sector and promote and embed racial equity across the sector from its internal power structures, funding streams, programming, research design and evaluation, marketing, and communications, to its external methods of engaging with BIPOC communities.
The Better Org is an organizational development consultancy working exclusively with non-profits and social impact organisations to improve culture, increase effectiveness, and maximize impact through data, research, and learning. The Better Org was established in response to the myriad of management challenges and leadership failures in the non-profit and social impact sectors that have come to light over the past few years, and in recognition that mission-driven and purpose-led organizations operate within a particular ecosystem which can often present barriers to actualising well-intentioned commitments to organizational development and improvement.