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1/30/24, 9:39 AM HSOA-24-6 <br />https://chapelhillnc.workflow.opengov.com/#/explore/records/62569/react-form-details/62569 6/15 <br />Describe how the agency incorporates racial equity into its goals. (150 word limit) <br />Describe how the intended beneficiaries of the proposed project(s) were involved in the planning and design <br />process. (150 word limit) <br />Percent (%) of Staff who attended racial equity <br />trainings. <br />100 <br />Percent (%) of Board Members who attended racial <br />equity trainings. <br />100 <br />RCP centers racial equity by examining where white supremacy culture shows up in <br />our organizational culture and structure, and maintaining accountability to <br />communities we work with. We use equity-based indicators in our hiring practices by <br />removing education/degree requirements, prioritizing lived experience, and having <br />RCP Members conduct interviews and make hiring recommendations. We are <br />unseating English as an instrument of white cultural dominance by hiring and <br />retaining non-English-primary speakers, providing abundant coaching, and paying <br />Language Equity Stipends. Two-thirds of our leadership are refugee and asylum- <br />seeking women of color. We replaced living wage standards in our salary bands with <br />“thriving wage” standards, incorporating factors beyond inflation to establish <br />compensation points, like rising cost of housing. We have deepened our staff <br />accountability practices by replacing top-down management with strengths-based <br />coaching and self-reflections. We have removed performance from salary increases, <br />guaranteeing salary raises year-over-year for all staff, and guaranteed bonuses for all <br />staff. <br />Throughout the refugee journey, help-giving relationships are one-way, undermining <br />self agency and perception of self-worth. At RCP we flip the script, where refugee and <br />migrant communities play the lead role in addressing the issues that affect them. <br />Decision-making comes from Membership through 1) neighborhood level <br />conversations between Member families, staff, and interpreters and 2) through our <br />Member Councils, composed entirely of refugee and migrant residents. RCP <br />maintains economic accountability by hiring Members for as many positions as <br />possible. Currently, 10 of 14 staff are refugee or migrant identifying, with an additional <br />35 Members on payroll as interpreters, navigators, or for programmatic and <br />organizational work more broadly. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 9A1CFCD5-41FF-4C02-9172-BC499052FC3A