In this session, originally recorded on November 27, 2018, we look at how to address diversity in grassroots non-profit organizations with Maya Roy.   In this Five Good Ideas session, Maya Roy drew on her own frontline experience to talk about the benefits of addressing diversity in smaller, grassroots non-profits. She offered five practical ideas around: 1) Participatory community development as a solid human resources strategy; 2) Online tools that can help upskill your team; 3) Intergenerational job sharing for team building and mentoring; 4) Job shadowing and management training in today’s changing environment; and 5) Challenges arising from today’s backlash against vulnerable communities.   Five Good Ideas 1. Adopt participatory community development as a solid human resources strategy 2. Use online tools that can help upskill your team 3. Think of intergenerational job sharing for team building and mentoring 4. Practice job shadowing and management training in today’s changing environment 5. Be aware of the challenges arising from today’s backlash against vulnerable communities   Resources 1. IF you are looking for online tools to skill up your staff, THEN consider OCASI’s Learn At Work. Its Positive Spacestraining can be done in both French and English and will bring your team up to date around gender, sexual identity, and how to create a Queer positive environment.   2. IF you are trying to skill up your management team around human resources, THEN sign up for an account with Coursera. You can identify modules in its Human Resources course and tailor them to your non-profit setting. Good classes to look at: University of California Davis HR workbooks around Setting Expectations and Team building through Coursera. The five courses are free, and combine workbooks you can assign to your staff, and podcasts and articles you can view together as a team and discuss. Apply the 80/20 to your HR stress and you will reap the benefits. Setting Expectations & Assessing Performance Issues Coaching Conversations   3. IF you are interested in exploring your impact and getting more clients, THEN consider integrated focus groups and explore Acumen’s free online courses on Social Impact and Human Centered Design. Assign teams to work through the modules together and apply it to an existing project. Free Social Impact online class Free storytelling for Change class Human Centered Design Also consider: Institute for Change at Ryerson – the Ganz curriculum   4. IF you are a racialized and/or newcomer leader, THEN RUN, don’t walk, to get Tina Lopes’ book