Work on organizational culture
The work to commit the organization to anti-racism externally and internally also involved shaping an organizational culture and the practices that flow from that culture. “We realized early on the mistakes we made regarding not having an analysis of racism or being prepared to deal with it when it came up with groups we were working with,” says Ms. Natter. “ We have really focused on it now. We developed a shared analysis within the organization (among board, staff and core leaders in communities) through workshops which led to the recognition of the
centrality of racism as a barrier to social change . . . . Racism is used to block collaboration and support for social change work.”