Diversity Resource Listcreated for

National Performing Arts Convention Web siteUpdate: 6/1/2010

Organizations and Web Sites

Diversity Inc. www.diversityinc.com

Leading publication on diversity and business, DiversityInc.com has the largest dedicated career center for diverse professionals, and a core part of the business is benchmarking companies against our DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity data.

Diversity Best Practiceswww.diversitybestpractices.com

Focusing on sharing best practices and developing innovative solutions for culture change within organizations, Diversity Best Practices offers research, benchmarking, publications, and

events. The Web site offers the platform to connect with global diversity thought leaders and tap their intellectual capital, provide a link to business sessions, conference calls, and webinars, and access powerful, relevant U.S. and global data.

National MultiCultural Institutewww.nmci.org

NMCI is the only non-profit organization devoted to supporting the diversity and inclusion endeavors of other non-profits. NMCI’s mission is to work with individuals, organizations, and communities to facilitate personal and systemic change in order to build an inclusive society that is strengthened and

empowered by its diversity.

Through its programs, NMCI leads efforts to increase communication, understanding, and respect among diverse groups, and addresses important issues of multiculturalism facing our society. In addition to its twice annual Diversity Leadership Conferences, NMCI provides Organizational Consulting and Training on diversity issues, publishes books and training manuals through NMCI Publications, and develops Leading Edge Projects in the field.

Society of Human Resource Managementhttp://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/Diversity/Pages/default.aspx

The world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management, SHRM provides the most current and comprehensive resources, and advances the profession by promoting HR’s essential, strategic role. The Web site has an entire section devoted to diversity, which includes Age, Business Case, Careers, Color, Cultural Competence, Disability, Diversity Initiatives, Ethnicity/National Origin, Family Status, Gender Identity, Metrics, Multicultural Marketing, Race, Religion, Belief & Spirituality, Sexual Orientation, plus much more.

Print MediaThe Business Case for Diversity – 5th edition by Diversity, Inc. Staff, Gwen Moran

Publisher: Diversity Inc.; 2006.

This is the essential reference book for diversity leaders. You know that work place and marketplace diversity are the marks of a well-managed company. Now, The Business Case for Diversity, Fifth Edition, illustrates exactly how creating an inclusive culture benefits the bottom line. A must-read for diversity leaders, this book is completely rewritten, reformatted, and includes: All new content, including the latest diversity research, statistics, and studies; insight into harnessing the buying power of emerging markets; advice and examples from the Diversity, Inc. Top50 Companies for Diversity; evidence of how diversity increases retention, decreases costs, and improves profits. Each chapter delivers the information you need about the four cornerstones of successful diversity programs: CEO commitment, human capital, corporate communications, and supplier diversity. You'll learn how to measure your company's efforts and benefit from a more inclusive corporate culture

Designing and Implementing a Diversity Initiative: A Guide for Organizational Culture Change by Maria Morukian and Manny Brandt

Publisher: National MultiCultural Institute; 2009.

This manual details the National MultiCultural Institute’s unique, comprehensive, and time-tested framework for implementing

organizational culture change within a nonprofit organization. It provides the tools needed to conceptualize the most effective strategies for infusing diversity and inclusion into an organization.

The Diversity Directive: Why Some Initiatives Fail and What to Do About It by Armida Mendez Russell and Robert Hayles

Publisher: McGraw-Hill; November 1, 1996.

In recent years, organizations across America have implemented diversity programs designed to produce the multicultural corporate environment needed to compete on a global scale. The

aim of The Diversity Directive is to help those organizations realize the rewards of their efforts. The Diversity Directive includes a step-by-step, proven process for initiating or revitalizing corporate diversity efforts. Some of the most valuable diversity lessons learned by leading edge companies such as Medtronic, Pillsbury, Honeywell, and 3M are shared in this book. The Diversity Directive will help readers: Guide their organization through the process of planning and implementing a diversity program that sustains real and lasting culture change; Revitalize diversity change efforts by identifying ``what to do next''; Learn about embarking on a ``diversity journey'' from those who are already traveling the path.

DiversityInc Magazine

A monthly magazine, DiversityInc Magazine features timely articles as well as regular columns on legal and immigration issues, facts and figures, leadership profiles, people and events, and “Ask the White Guy.” The target audience is executives at larger corporations and organizations and is appropriate for owners/partners of women- and minority-owned businesses, and educators and students.

Diversity Primer

Publisher: Diversity Best Practies; 2010.

The premier resource for every diversity practitioner is touted by corporate leaders as the bible of diversity management and leadership. This 235-page publication will cover all areas of diversity management from affinity groups to white male engagement. This

indispensable publication is being used by many of today’s top corporations to formulate entire strategic diversity plans. Also included will be a comprehensive look at the position of Chief Diversity Officer. This new section of the Diversity Primer will provide profiles of top diversity officers, compensation strategies, roles andresponsibilities, and a look into the changing trends and future ofthe Chief Diversity Officer in corporate America.

Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts edited by Diane Grams and Betty Farrell

Publisher: Rutgers University Press; March 26, 2008.

Arts organizations once sought patrons primarily from among the wealthy and well educated, but for many decades now they have revised their goals as they seek to broaden their audiences.

Today, museums, orchestras, dance companies, theaters, and community cultural centers try to involve a variety of people in the arts. They strive to attract a more racially and ethnically diverse group of people, those from a broader range of economic backgrounds, new immigrants, families, and youth.

The chapters in this book draw on interviews with leaders, staff, volunteers, and audience members from eighty-five nonprofit cultural organizations to explore how they are trying to increase participation and the extent to which they have been successful. The insiders' accounts point to the opportunities and challenges involved in such efforts, from the reinvention of programs and creation of new activities, to the addition of new departments and staff dynamics, to partnerships with new groups. The authors differentiate between "relational" and "transactional" practices, the former term describing efforts to build connections with local communities and the latter describing efforts to create new consumer markets for cultural products. In both cases, arts leaders report that, although positive results are difficult to measure conclusively, long-term efforts bring better outcomes than short-term activities.

The organizations discussed include large, medium, and small nonprofits located in urban, suburban, and rural areas--from large institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the San Francisco Symphony to many cultural organizations that are smaller, but often known nationally for their innovative work, such as AS220, The Loft Literary Center, Armory Center for the Arts, Appalshop, and the Western Folklife Center.

The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell with Foreward by Zlata Filipovic

Publisher: Broadway; October 12, 1999

Straight from the front line of urban America, this is an inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.

As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that

this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust—only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.”

With funds raised by a “Read-a-thon for Tolerance,” they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwell’s students were “the real heroes.” Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition—appearances on Prime Time Live and All Things Considered, coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley—and educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college.

With powerful entries from the students’ own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.

Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community by Donna Walker-Kuhne and George C. Wolfe

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group; January 1, 2005.

Acknowledged as the nation's foremost expert on audience development involving America's growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-

Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage diverse communities as participants for arts and culture. By offering strategic collaborations and efforts to develop and sustain non--traditional audiences, this book will directly impact the stability and future of America's cultural and artistic landscape.

Donna Walker-Kuhne has spent the last 20 years developing and refining these principles with such success as both the Broadway and national touring productions of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, as well as transforming the audiences at one of the U.S.'s most important and visible arts institutions, New York's Public Theater. This book is a practical and inspirational guide on ways to invite, engage, and partner with culturally diverse communities and enfranchising those communities into the fabric of arts and culture in the United States.

Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation by Frans Johansson

Publisher: Harvard Business Press; October 1, 2006

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally

explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into new, unfamiliar territory and offers examples how we can turn the ideas we discover into ground-breaking innovations.

Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words by Stephen Young

Publisher: McGraw-Hill; (October 24, 2006).

Should you sweat the small stuff?

Absolutely, says Stephen Young, especially when it comes to those critical behaviors that can make or break performance. The reason is simple: no matter what you think you're saying, your words, gestures, and tone of voice can actually communicate something entirely different.

Too often, negative micromessages undermine morale, business opportunities, and ultimately your organization. Micromessaging examines the nuanced behaviors that we all blindly use and react to in our dealings with others. Yet as Young points out, these micromessages can reveal a lot about our own-and our superiors'-biases and preconceived notions. Learning how to constructively address these behaviors can bring about positive change.

Young offers a common language for encouraging open discussion in the workplace, along with skills to identify and address familiar micromessages; tools for deploying microadvantages; and real-life workplace scenarios, self-assessments, and solutions that help readers interpret and alter ingrained behaviors and their effects. He delivers valuable information on

Crucial leadership skills and how to acquire them Universal workplace cultural issues How expectations affect the performance of others Ways to speak fairly, not falsely Techniques that eliminate group think How to reset the "filters" you use to "screen" others

Based on research from MIT, Young's approach has already helped numerous Fortune 500 clients, including Merck, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Starbucks, IBM, Boeing, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Cisco, and Raytheon to increase leadership effectiveness. With its proven wisdom, you can experience what so many business executives worldwide have discovered and make it a powerful part of your leadership skill set.

Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell, and Foreward by Anna Quindlen

Publisher: Broadway; Original edition (August 18, 2009)

“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel

deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of their work will last forever.” –from the foreword by Anna Quindlen

Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, the Freedom Writers phenomenon came about in 1994 when Erin Gruwell stepped into Room 203 and began her first teaching job out of college. Long Beach, California, was still reeling from the deadly violence that erupted during the Rodney King riots, and the kids in Erin’s classroom reflected the anger, resentment, and hopelessness of their community. Undaunted, Erin fostered an educational philosophy that valued and promoted diversity, tolerance, and communication, and in the process, she transformed her students’ lives, as well as her own. Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers went on to establish the Freedom Writers Foundation to replicate the success of Room 203 and provide all students with hope and opportunities to realize their academic potential. Since then, the foundation has trained more than 150 teachers in the United States and Canada. Teaching Hope unites the voices of these Freedom Writer teachers, who share uplifting, devastating, and poignant stories from their classrooms, stories that provide insight into the struggles and triumphs of education in all of its forms.

Mirroring an academic year, these dispatches from the front lines of education take us from the anticipation of the first day to the disillusionment, challenges, and triumphs of the school year. These are the voices of teachers who persevere in the face of intolerance, rigid administration, and countless other challenges, and continue to reach out and teach those who are deemed unteachable. Their stories inspire everyone to make a difference in the world around them.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Back Bay Books; January 7, 2002.

The Tipping Point is about change. It's a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. For example, why did crime drop so dramatically

in New York City in the mid-1990's? How does a novel written by an unknown author end up as national bestseller? Why do teens smoke in greater and greater numbers, when every single person in the country knows that cigarettes kill? Why is word-of-mouth so powerful? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? I think the answer to all those questions is the same. It's that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

Publisher: Soft Skull Press; December 28, 2007.

Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise

shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits those who are "white like him" — whether or not they’re actively racist. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a compelling narrative that assesses the magnitude of racial privilege and is at once readable and scholarly, analytical yet accessible.

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum and Beverly Daniel Tatum

Publisher: Basic Books; January 7, 2003

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the Black kids

sitting together--the White, Latino, Asian Pacific, and in some regions, American Indian youth, are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and in corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should try to fix, or a coping strategy we should support? How can we get past our reluctance to talk about racial

issues to even discuss it? And what about the other question we and our children have about race?

Beverly Daniel Tatum is a renowned authority on the psychology on racism. She asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences. Whites are afraid of using the wrong words and being perceived as "racist." Parents of color are afraid of exposing their children to painful racial realities too soon. Tatum understands that the vocabulary of race is loaded and that embarrassment and awkwardness often stymie conversations about this subject; yet, she believes that these obstacles can and must be overcome if we are to bring about change.

In Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race, Dr. Tatum provides us with a new way of thinking and talking about race through the lens of racial identity. She explains that all of us have a racial identity and must strive to affirm it. For people of color, the development of a constructive racial identity requires being able to recognize and reject the bombardments of negative stereotypes and to embrace a history of resistance and empowerment rather than passive victimization. For Whites, the challenge is to engage in a process of racial identity development which leads to an awareness of White privilege and a determination to actively work against injustice--and this requires the strength to reject a system that rewards them, and to reclaim the legacy of White allies. For many, this is uncharted territory. This book provides a road map for those who want to make the journey better understand the racial dynamics of their daily lives.

Tatum extends her ideas about racial identity development beyond the usual Black-White paradigm to embrace the unique circumstances of Latinos, American Indians, Asians, as well as biracial youth. Also included is a list of resources for further reading as well as a list of books for parents and teachers to recommend to children of all ages.

Using real-life examples and the latest research, Tatum presents strong evidence that straight talk about our racial identities--whatever they may be--is essential if we are serious about facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides. We have waited far too long to begin our conversations about race. This remarkable book, infused with great wisdom and humanity, tells us where to start.