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Race & Equity Consistent with our commitment to equity and inclusion, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Orange County Government are taking steps together to center racial equity in the Human Services Funding Program. We are requesting basic information about your organization's racial equity work. 5. How has your organization incorporated racial equity goals into your organizational goals? Our goal as an organization is for our staff, board, and participants to more comparably reflect the diversity of the community where we are located. In order to achieve this goal, we are actively working to remove barriers to the accessibility of Piedmont Wildlife Center's programs and space. We have changed our scholarship process, removing a tax document requirement that may have caused privacy concerns and adding a letter of recommendation instead; offer afterschool programs on-site and provided bus transportation to other schools; and we are advertising our open staff positions where candidates of all backgrounds are more likely to see them. In addition, our board is developing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee, and both board members and full time staff are participating in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshops. 6. Please describe how you have involved the intended beneficiaries of the proposed project in the planning and design process (in 100 words or less). In order to design an afterschool program that will provide the greatest impact on our participants, we collaborated with the Afterschool teachers of the three Orange County middle schools. Through these discussions we learned what the kids' interests were and what activities they have enjoyed in the past, allowing us to tailor our programming to meet the kids where they are. In addition, the coordinators of each District's Afterschool programming assisted in the selection of which schools would most benefit from Piedmont Wildlife Center's presence, provided access, and arranged the schools' schedules. 7. Please fill in your agency demographics in the table below: Agency Demographics Staff Board Gender Men 4 4 Women 40 3 Nonbinary/Genderqueer 8 0 Self-Describe 2 0 Total 55 7 Race and Ethnicity Black or African-American 2 2 American Indian or Alaska Native 0 Asian Indian 0 White 40 4 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0 Program information Page 13 of