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Race & Equity <br />Consistent with our commitment to equity and inclusion, the Towns of Chapel Hill <br />and Carrboro and Orange County Government are taking steps together to center <br />racial equity in the Human Services Funding Program. We are requesting basic <br />5. How has your organization incorporated racial equity goals into your <br />organizational goals? <br />Our goal as an organization is for our staff, board, and participants to more comparably <br />reflect the diversity of the community where we are located. In order to achieve this <br />goal, we are actively working to remove barriers to the accessibility of Piedmont Wildlife <br />We have changed our scholarship process, removing a <br />tax document requirement that may have caused privacy concerns and adding a letter <br />of recommendation instead; offer afterschool programs on-site and provided bus <br />transportation to other schools; and we are advertising our open staff positions where <br />candidates of all backgrounds are more likely to see them. In addition, our board is <br />developing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee, and both board members and <br />full time staff are participating in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshops. <br />Please describe how you have involved the intended beneficiaries of the <br />proposed project in the planning and design process (in 100 words or less). <br />In order to design an afterschool program that will provide the greatest impact on our <br />participants, we collaborated with the Afterschool teachers of the three Orange County <br />and what activities they have enjoyed in the past, allowing us to tailor our programming <br />Afterschool programming assisted in the selection of which schools would most benefit <br />schedules. <br />7. Please fill in your agency demographics in the table below: <br />Agency Demographics <br />Staff Board <br />Gender <br />Men 4 4 <br />Women 40 3 <br />Nonbinary/Genderqueer 8 0 <br />Self-Describe 2 0 <br />Total 55 7 <br />Race and Ethnicity <br />Black or African-American 2 2 <br />American Indian or Alaska Native 0 <br />Asian Indian 0 <br />White 40 4 <br />Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0 <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 59AE45FB-98E0-4087-8250-10D08A4AD3AD