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Create inclusive workplaces and opportunities for your LGBTQ+ members

Host Organization: Candid

About

What is the cost of the closet? Many members of the LGBTQ community experience discrimination in the workplace or lack a sense of belonging By learning more about the identities, experiences, and culture of the LGBTQ community, employers can more easily understand unconscious bias and use more inclusive language in their interactions with employees and clients.

Outcomes

  • Identify instances of biased language.
  • Employ gender neutral language (including pronoun usage) in common workplace interactions.
  • Recognize areas of process improvement for transgender and gender expansive staff and clients.

Intended audience

  • All levels of experience
  • Board members
  • CEOs, executive directors, upper management
  • Fundraising & development staff
  • Grant writers
  • Grantmaker/funder
  • Individual grantseekers
  • Marketing, communications, external affairs
  • Nonprofit startups
  • Program directors and staff

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