The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s (WKKF) organizational commitment to advancing racial equity, diversity and inclusion has been a multi-decade journey. One area of significant progress is in our human resources (HR) policies and practices. Over the years, leaders and organizations have sought out our HR team to ask about our internal strategies – what we’ve tried, what we’ve learned and what actions we are taking as a result of our commitments. WKKF created this toolkit to share our experiences, lessons and recommended tools and resources for implementing racial equity strategies as part of a human resources function. The toolkit complements the foundation’s “ONE Journey” publication, which shares the foundation’s larger racial equity, diversity and inclusion (REDI) efforts more fully.
What’s Inside The Toolkit:
- Guidance on how organizations can create standards, principles and approaches for racial equity work
- Tools for how to craft an effective employee value proposition (EVP)
- Suggestions for creating employee resource groups (ERGs) or affinity groups
- Strategies to engage employees in racial equity experiential learning
- Sample resources from WKKF’s HR team, including:
- Talking points for sharing your racial equity expectations with recruitment partners
- Diversity and racial equity interview questions to assess candidate competencies
- Sample recruitment tracking mechanisms for candidate pools
- Performance indicators that identify desired characteristics and behaviors
- Mechanisms to recognize and reward racial equity leadership and behaviors
- Survey questions to solicit feedback from employees about organizational culture and racial equity, diversity and inclusion