234. Growing a Board that Cares About Inclusion - Christal Cherry, and Dr. Renee Rubin Ross

Meet Christal and Dr. Renee. These two equity teachers are bringing the race discussion to your board to grow one that cares about inclusion and values all people equally. We're talking about meaningful DEI training at the board level, and the feedback/results are truly encouraging🙌 Join us as we chat through the steps of building a journey toward a race-equity culture for our boards. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSChristal’s story and journey to where she is today (2:50)Dr. Renee’s story and journey to where she is today (6:00)Growing a board that cares about inclusion (7:00)Navigating difficult conversations within your board (12:30)Disrupting biases (15:00)Making a case to your board for this work (26:00)The response from these trainings (28:00)Building long-term sustainability within your boards (33:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Dr. Renee’s life (36:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Christal’s life (37:00)Dr. Renee’s One Good Thing: Listen to the wisdom in whatever room you’re in. (39:00)Christal’s One Good Thing: Open up your spaces to include other voices. (40:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/234The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/helloAbout Our Sponsor VirtuousYou know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/Join us at ImpactUp: Story! Join us online from 12-1:30 CST for a free virtual session including a keynote with storytelling phenom, Afdhel Aziz, and a roundtable convo with 4 amazing nonprofit leaders. Then that evening, in nearly 50 cities around the world are hosting local meetups to keep the conversation going in person.Find a meetup near you or join us virtually! //Join the We Are For Good Community—completely free.Join fellow changemakers, share takeaways from this working session, and keep collaborating in a space built for connection, inspiration, and real impact: www.weareforgoodcommunity.comSay hi 👋LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter