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Equity Training - Why Race Matters (1st date)

  • Philanthropy Center 1020 W Riverside Ave Spokane, WA 99201 (map)

This training is for all Learning Cohort and county Collaborative members.

REGISTER HERE - Registration is full. Please follow the link to be added to the waitlist, you will be notified when this training is offered again.

Topic: Why Race Matters Workshop: History, Systems & Strategies 
Trainer:
Anne Martin, Director, Greater Spokane Progress
Details: The Why Race Matters Workshop has been designed to provide a foundation for further racial equity work. Using the acclaimed documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” the Why Race Matters Workshop, led by a multi-racial team of local facilitators, addresses how racial inequities have been built into institutions and structures throughout our country, why it is important to use a racial equity lens, and what we can do to advance racial equity in our organizations and in our community.

Our objectives are to:

  • Examine beliefs about race, advantage and justice, and how these issues impact our communities, organizations, and institutions.

  • Define and discuss implicit bias and explicit bias and examples of how they operate on individual and institutional levels.

  • Gain awareness of historical cases of institutional racism.

  • Define terms and develop an understanding of the difference between: structural, institutional, and individual racism; and equity and equality.

  • Identify structural and institutional racism, how it continues to impact us today, and begin to look at the complexities of the intersections with other oppressed identities.

  • Discuss local examples of institutional racism and begin to think about next steps for our ourselves and our organizations.


This is an in-person training. There will not be a call-in or webinar option.

Meeting agenda & materials will be posted to the Learning Cohort main page in advance of the meeting.

Earlier Event: February 20
Spokane Collaborative
Later Event: March 4
BHT Board Meeting