• JOIN NOW
  • E-LEARNING
  • you_tube_tpch
  • en English
    en Englishes Spanishzh-CN Chinese (Simplified)zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)tl Filipinovi Vietnamesear Arabicko Koreanso Somalifr Frenchsw Swahili

Tucson Pima Collaboration to End HomelessnessTucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness

Menu
  • About
    • About TPCH
      • Continuum of Care Board
      • General Council
    • TPCH Governing Documents
    • NOFA Documents
      • Fiscal Year 2022 CoC & YHDP NOFO
      • Fiscal Year 2022 Supplemental NOFO
      • Fiscal Year 2021
      • Fiscal Year 2020
      • Fiscal Year 2019
      • Fiscal Year 2018
      • Fiscal Year 2017
    • Join TPCH
    • Ending Youth Homelessness
  • Data
    • Housing Inventory Charts (HIC) and Point In Time Counts (PIT)
    • Annual Homeless Assessment Reports (AHAR)
    • System Performance Measures
  • Committees
    • CoC PROGRAM GRANT COMMITTEE
    • COORDINATED ENTRY COMMITTEE
    • DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE
    • HMIS COMMITTEE
    • SYSTEM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION COMMITTEE
    • YOUTH ACTION COMMITTEE (YAC)
    • COMMUNITY COALITIONS
    • ARCHIVED COMMITTEES
    • POINT IN TIME COUNT
  • News
  • Calendar
    • View the TPCH Web Calendar
    • Download the Printable 2023 Calendar
  • Resources
    • Get Help
    • Coordinated Entry for Homeless Services
    • Landlord Incentives
    • Business Partnerships
    • Coronavirus Resource Guide
DONATE

Striving Toward Racial Justice Issue #6- Determining Desired Outcomes

Striving Toward Racial Justice Issue #6- Determining Desired Outcomes

by Jason Thorpe / Tuesday, 08 February 2022 / Published in Community, Featured, Now Happening



TPCH released Striving Toward Racial Justice: A Call-to-Action for Pima County Community-Based Organizations, in partnership with the University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women in November 2021.  As we begin 2022, we are calling on community organizations and our housing partners to deepen our shared resolve to advancing racial equity.  This email series provides a summary of key concepts and strategies discussed in the Call to Action and i packed with useful resources and tools to help community organizations as they strive toward racial justice. 

In this issue, we introduce the fourth of 7 key actions defined in the Call to Action: Determining Desired Outcomes.  This issue focuses on making the change we want to see within our organizations and our community explicit and measurable. 

Don’t miss our next issue in which we introduce Action 5 – Building Racial Justice and Minimizing Harm.  Can’t wait?  Click here to download the full Call to Action now. 
Action 4: Determine Desired Outcomes
After a comprehensive review of the organizational landscape, it is time to set priorities for policy and program changes and develop a timeline. Plans will work best if you lay out clear, measurable and attainable goals with specific indicators assigned to each goal in order to measure success.

Developing desired outcomes for the organization and for clients will help build a roadmap of the direction to head toward. Outcomes should be mutually agreed upon by leadership, staff and clients.

Consider budgetary and staff needs. Prioritizing this work means that those charged with leading tasks should be properly compensated; work should not be in addition to regular job duties.

Also important is to anticipate potential unintended consequences of your work and aim to mitigate these challenges if possible. One unintended consequence may be pushback from different segments of the community who may not understand the need for prioritizing racial equity. It is critical to continuously articulate the importance of advancing racial equity in order to dismantle deeply-held beliefs and structures that perpetuate systems of advantage/disadvantage.
Check out this video from the National Alliance to End Homelessness introducing the equity-based decision making framework.
Recommended Strategies

Develop short- and long-term targets specific to areas for improvement.

Potential areas for improvement: Board, leadership, staff, and client representation.

Identify the positive outcomes that revised policies might have on staff members.

Consider measuring community reinvestment.

Research the potential impact of compensating staff who have assumed additional labor to improve services to clients.

Develop data-driven objectives.

Analyze by race and ethnicity, and other intersecting identities with high impact/influence.

Determine populations who might not be adequately represented in the data.

Develop objectives for populations not represented in the data.

Develop outcome goals.

Practically, there should be no differences in client outcomes based on race or ethnicity.

Strategize outcomes that are important to the stakeholders and outcomes that are important to funders; may differ from one another.

Evaluate the impact of investing in appropriate document translation.

Involve all stakeholders in the development of outcomes.

Develop a process that allows an equal voice in the process.

Maintain transparency about your goals related to racial justice for the organization and for clients. 
Resources for Individual Racial Justice WorkCentering Racial Equity in Measurement and Evaluation: Emerging Lessons and Guidance from Human Service Nonprofits
Leiha Edmonds, Clair Minson, and Ananya Hariharan, Urban Institute

Commitment to Becoming an Anti-Racist Organization: Our Journey, Learning and Call to Action
Community Resource Exchange

Racial Equity Action Plan Examples
Racial Equity Tools

Developing an Anti-Racism Strategy 
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Equitable Performance Metrics Any Organization Can Measure Now
Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff, Equity in the Center

Ideas for Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Nonprofits
Endowment & Foundation National Practice Group

It’s Time to Rethink ROI Metrics in Racial Justice
Sapna Sopori, Community-Centric Fundraising

Racial Equity Outcome Toolkit: A Six-Step Process for Your Organization
LaTrenda Leonard Sherrill, Pursuant Community Consulting Service

4 Things to Consider When Measuring Your Organization’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
YW Boston, Massachusetts Nonprofit Network
Authors
It is with the upmost admiration, respect and appreciation that we thank the authors for their critical contribution to this call-to action. In addition to their daily tireless commitment and relentless dedication to achieving racial justice in our community, they lent their expertise and passion to the hopeful notion that local organizations are willing to better serve their clients and better support their staff. Each of you makes our community a more just place.  
 Claudia Powell
Casey Chimneystar Limón-Condit
Marisol Flores-Aguirre
Anna Harper-Guerrero
Mildred Manuel
Andrés Portela III
Claudio Rodriguez
DOWNLOAD THE FULL CALL TO ACTION
WATCH THE VIDEO INTRODUCTION TO THE CALL TO ACTION
  • Home
  • About
  • Data
  • TPCH Committees & Community Coalitions
  • News
  • Resources
  • Sitemap

© Copyright 2018 Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness | Web Design by Tagline
Privacy Policy

Thank you for donating
to end homelessness!

Please make your check payable to TPCH.

Mail it to:
Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness
c/o City of Tucson Housing & Community Development

310 N. Commerce Park Loop
Santa Rita Building, 1st Floor
Tucson, AZ 85745

TOP
Operation Deep Freeze Is Off

Operation Deep Freeze (ODF) is CURRENTLY OFF 

Operation Deep Freeze (ODF) is Tucson's winter severe-weather emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness. ODF goes into effect when weather predictions are for overnight temperatures of 40°F or lower with rain, 35°F or lower without rain, or when wind chill factors indicate a health hazard from exposure. You do not need an ID or a TB card to participate in ODF.

Skip to content
Open toolbar Accessibility Tools

Accessibility Tools

  • Increase TextIncrease Text
  • Decrease TextDecrease Text
  • GrayscaleGrayscale
  • High ContrastHigh Contrast
  • Negative ContrastNegative Contrast
  • Light BackgroundLight Background
  • Links UnderlineLinks Underline
  • Readable FontReadable Font
  • Reset Reset
  • SitemapSitemap