Books
This is the second book we read this year, written by Michele Norris.
What is Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity?
In August, Dave taught us this geometric model that is important to creating organizational success, as it seeks to help us understand how bias can impact the areas within the model.
What is the 6th and/or 7th Circle Model?
This documentary series focused on 8 undocumented families and their roller-coaster experience navigating the new immigration policies in the United States.
What is Living Undocumented?
We funded this organization's transportation program that helps people with Substance Use Disorder find rides to/from inpatient treatment, detox facilities, and ongoing recovery supports.
Who is 217 Recovery?
(217 Recovery Rides)
Since its founding, this regional foundation has received over $123 million in gifts and awarded more than $65.7 million in grants and scholarships to support five counties in Northwest Michigan.
What is the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation?
James Vukelich talks about living this kind of life in his book.
What is the good life "mino-bimaadiziwin"?
Our most recent training focused on giving/receiving feedback by using this acronym as a framework for giving feedback to others.
What is FBI (Feeling, Behavior, Impact)?
The title of the documentary, Twice Colonized, references one person's experience with colonization by these two different nations.
What is Canada and Greenland?
The Shepard-Byrd Act, a landmark federal statute that allows federal criminal prosecution of hate crimes, was passed in this year.
What is 2009?
Our Hidden Conversations is a compilation of stories and richly reported essays that all started with Norris' The Race Card Project, where she asked that people submit their thoughts on race using this many words.
Pam shared and overview, history, and statistics about this group of people in her October mini-learning session.
What is the trans community?
In the Living Undocumented series, Ron and his wife have been living as undocumented people in the United States for 17 years. The story of Ron and his wife shares the example of immigrants from this country contributing to American society and economy and still having feelings of uncertainty.
What is Israel?
This organization received funding to create a suite of accessible educational materials - large print, pictograms, Spanish translation - to improve transportation information comprehension that affects their most vulnerable riders.
Who is the Benzie Transportation Authority?
(Benzie Bus)
This term in DEI refers to ensuring fair treatment, access, and opportunities for all individuals, often by addressing systemic barriers.
What is equity?
Our Hidden Conversations was inspired by Michele Norris' 12 year long work on this project.
What is The Race Card Project?
The number of distinct talent themes identified in the CliftonStrengths "StrengthsFinder" assessment.
What are 34?
The central character in the documentary, Twice Colonized, held this career.
What is a lawyer and activist?
We funded a National Writers Series event, where this author shared her powerful message of a "gift economy" - a shift from capitalism and scarcity towards abundance - much like the title plant of her newest book.
Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?
This is process of authentically bringing traditionally excluded individuals and/or groups into processes, activities, and decision/policy making in a way that shares power.
What is Inclusion?
Name one of the seven grandfather teachings that James Vukelich shared in "The Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings".
What is Humility, Truth, Courage, Love, Respect, Wisdom, or Honesty?
Kristina taught us in January that these types of messages are the most universally effective.
What are messages that emphasize respect, belonging, and individual potential?
In the series Living Undocumented, Alejandra made many attempts to appeal her deportation, even working with her state senator to introduce a bill that would prevent her deportation due to her being this.
What is a military spouse?
This organization received funding for their Indigenous Knowledges Land Visit Project, where they plan to learn traditional land management practices, develop cultural access strategies, and build partnerships with the Anishinaabeg community.
Who is the Leelanau Conservancy?
It took 46 years for LGBTQ+ protections to be included in this named Michigan Civil Rights Act.
What is Elliot-Larsen?