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Over the course of the last four years, Marga Incorporated has been assisting the Annie E. Casey Foundation in shaping its strategy to become as diverse and inclusive as possible. Marga conducted a scan of practices in other Foundations, so that Casey could be informed about how their industry has been ensuring a diverse staff, a welcoming internal climate, an inclusive approach to grantmaking, and other key practices.
Casey’s internal dialogue, open to all staff, called “Respect” has continually provided an open forum where all staff could discuss concerns and raise ideas about how the foundation can address race, culture, ethnicity, inclusion, and other related issues. Marga has been assessing the progress of this work, and evaluating the impact of various efforts to enhance cross-cultural understanding and sensitivity.
As a result of Respect’s years of work, it became clear that the Foundation’s management should develop a process by which diversity, race, and inclusion could be addressed in the foundation’s policies. Subsequently, the “Priority Group on Equity” was formed. Marga advises this newer formation as well. Presently, Marga is assisting the Priority Group on Equity in setting goals and a strategy by which to meet them, particularly with respect to staff and vendor diversity. Marga is researching practices in supplier diversity and employee diversity in order to inform this goal setting.
Marga is communicating with major corporations with a track record in diversity about how they have been setting goals and going about increasing their staff and managerial diversity, and ensuring an inclusive array of suppliers/vendors.
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