Why You Need to be Disaggregating Your Data

When working with organizations, we often see leaders with good intentions make a simple mistake: taking their data at face value instead of looking deeper into the numbers. But when you take your data at face value, this can often lead to incorrect and counterproductive conclusions.  Consider an organization seeking to improve the graduation [...]

Making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Measurable In Your Organization

We believe that an organization’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals can be more successful if combined with concrete data measures and careful monitoring and planning efforts. In other words, our goal should not merely be to “advance” equity but to create “Measurable Equity.” Measurable Equity should therefore not be understood as an alternative [...]

Vibrant Hawai’i Wins $25,000 in Clear Impact’s Racial Equity Turn the Curve Plan Contest

Clear Impact is excited to announce that Vibrant Hawai'i - a nonprofit organization focused on convening community partners to combat poverty and inequity in Hawai'i - has won the $25,000 grand prize in the Racial Equity Turn the Curve Poster Contest. Kalehua Kukahiko, Associate of Data, Impact, and Equity Initiatives at Vibrant Hawai'i presented [...]

An Indigenous People’s Day Message

October 10th, 2022 By: Marcos Marquez, Clear Impact Equity Lead As we add our voices to those celebrating Indigenous People’s Day, we first pause to ground our words in humility, respect, gratitude, and accountability. May the words that follow be filled with authenticity. Today, as individuals who work at Clear Impact, we acknowledge that our [...]

2022-10-10T14:35:42-04:00By |Categories: Company Updates, equity|0 Comments

5 Nonprofit Healthcare Industry Trends and Challenges in 2021

You may have heard the phrase "unprecedented times" an unprecedented number of times over the past year and a half - especially as COVID-19 and its variants continue to wreak havoc across communities, industries, and economies worldwide. But it's true - direct service providers, businesses, governments, foundations, and communities alike currently face many challenges [...]

President Biden’s Executive Order on Racial Equity: What It Means for Equal Opportunity in 2021 and Going Forward

August 16, 2021By: Henry MaloneThe term “equity” is defined as the fair and impartial treatment of all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, income, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. However, for as widespread of a population that equity tries to treat, too often such demographics are limited by their backgrounds and not provided [...]

2022-03-29T15:38:28-04:00By |Categories: equity|0 Comments

3 Equity Measures for Organizations & the Benefits of Measuring Equity

The following is the third in a 3-part blog series on the benefits of measuring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in your organization. Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here. This blog will explore 3 equity measures for businesses.  What is Equity? A society is equitable when all people have the opportunity to participate, [...]

The Business Case for Diversity – 3 Suggested Measures for Organizations

The following is the first in a 3-part blog series on the benefits of measuring Diversity Equity and Inclusion in your organization. You can stay up to date by signing up for our newsletter to the right of this post. Read part 2 here. What is Diversity? Diversity represents the mixture of one or [...]

Measuring Equity in Culture Change: Key Takeaways (Part 2)

This blog is the second in a two-part series. You can read the first part here.  This blog is based on content from “Accountability in Racial Equity: Measuring Culture Change,” a webinar hosted by Portland Means Progress and facilitated by Serilda Summers-McGee of Workplace Change. Thank you to both for making this event free to the public. Key [...]

2021-01-06T15:08:13-05:00By |Categories: equity|0 Comments

Measuring Equity in Culture Change: Key Takeaways (Part 1)

This blog is the first in a two-part series. You can read the next part by clicking the button at the bottom of the page. This blog is based on content from "Accountability in Racial Equity: Measuring Culture Change," a webinar hosted by Portland Means Progress and facilitated by Serilda Summers-McGee of Workplace Change. [...]