2022-552-E-Social Svc-Inter-Faith Council for Social Services- outside agency funding & emergency assistance program

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Program information Page 10 of 33 and serving on our Board of Directors. We rely on our relationships with members and residents to ensure we are understanding their needs, so we listen to people when they tell us what they need from us. b. How has your organization incorporated racial equity goals into your organizational goals? IFC’s "Approach" document operationalizes our mission, vision, and values which focus on equity and social justice. In 2017, we held the first meeting of IFC’s R.E.A.L. (Race.Equity.Action.Leadership.) Transformation Team with a pro-bono consultant. The R.E.A.L. Transformation team's responsibility is to focus on racial equity and make recommendations to Board and Staff on changes to policies, procedures, and practices that will advance equity and anti-racism within and beyond IFC. One of their projects was to create and conduct a Racial Equity Organizational Assessment for IFC, which facilitated conversations about racial equity at all levels of each of our programs – members, residents, volunteers, staff, and board. We sponsor participation for staff, board members, volunteers and members at racial equity trainings and other trainings and equity discussions are regularly part of staff, board, and volunteer meetings. We focus on racial equity values in our hiring and board recruitment process. We are reimagining how our Board functions by including an anti-racism component at each board meeting, including our equity filter on each board meeting agenda, and having a Board Chair and Vice Chair with experience doing anti-racism work in other realms. This past year, our R.E.A.L. Transformation Team expanded to form two affinity groups – a White Caucus and a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Caucus to start the difficult work of self-reflection and learning how to become a social justice organization. The two groups meet regularly and separately so that we can each do our own anti-racism work specific to our experiences. We recently expanded our part-time R.E.A.L. Transformation Coordinator position to a full-time Director position, and hired a Community Engagement Manager to on-board volunteers and build a social justice and anti-racism culture at IFC. c. Please fill in the below questions and provide any additional context on the racial composition of the organization and board leadership: i. % of staff that are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) : 72% ii. % of board that are BIPOC: 50% iii. % of staff that have attended racial equity training: 100% d. Please describe any additional activities your organization is doing to address racial equity. Our Activate! IFC program is a civic engagement and leadership project that engages IFC members and residents with the goal of becoming more involved in the political process. Activate! IFC projects work to demystify the policy- making process, remove barriers to decision makers, and activate valuable marginalized voices in our community to advocate for themselves. Some of Activate! IFC’s successes include:  Holding a poster-making event and participating in local Black Lives Matter marches  Holding Voter outreach trainings, resulting in people signing Pledge to Vote cards and registering to vote DocuSign Envelope ID: D55BA9F3-2E5A-43E1-B098-5435F6FD4E2D