Advancing Diversity and Inclusion by Design

Challenge

The individual leaders of our 291 chapters want and need tools, resources and leadership support to advance diversity and inclusion at the local level.

Actions

Advancing D&I by Design has three components:

1. A Toolkit to guide Leagues through specific stages:

  • Making a Commitment
  • Embedding D&I throughout the local League (structure, policies, practices)
  • Championing D&I outside of the individual League

2. A focused campaign to address “Making a Commitment,” called the “100% Challenge” (with specific, focused efforts around “embedding” and “championing” to come)

3. A two-day, in-person intensive training track based on the Toolkit, to be offered multiple times each year for League leaders

Outcomes

In its first year:

1. The Toolkit has been downloaded from the AJLI website over 600 times

2. Over 50% of the Junior Leagues have “Made the Commitment,” and an additional 15% have reported being in the process of doing so. The 100% Challenge continues.

3. Leaders from 41 Junior Leagues attended the first two-day intensive training track in April, 2018. The track received an impressive evaluation of 4.9 on a 5.0 scale.

Contact

Susan Danish

Quote

The CEO Action Pledge reminds all of us of the critical role of commitment from the top, and provides us with the opportunity to fulfill that leadership role even better by learning from each other – across industries and sectors. That’s powerful.

Susan Danish
CEO
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