Forming Your Inclusiveness Committee

This worksheet was created by The Denver Foundation's Inclusiveness Project (http://www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org/) to support organizations doing inclusiveness work.

Users are encouraged to customize the worksheet (both content and formatting) to meet the needs of their respective organizations. A Word verison is attached.  A writable PDF version is attached.

Instructions
Complete this worksheet to determine who will serve on your Inclusiveness Committee. 

• Your Inclusiveness Committee will have approximately five to fifteen staff and board members, and in some cases, key volunteers.
• Your committee should also be racially and ethnically diverse and, in most cases, should have people from different functional areas of the organization represented.
• It is preferable for the committee to include people in leadership/management positions as well as people in entry-level positions.

The executive director commits to participating in the inclusiveness initiative as: (select one or both)

• A member of the Inclusiveness Committee
• The chairperson of the Inclusiveness Committee

The chairperson or co-chairpersons of the board of directors will support the inclusiveness initiative by: (select one or more)

• Serving on the Inclusiveness Committee
• Chairing the Inclusiveness Committee
• Providing his/her explicit support for the inclusiveness initiative

Other members of the board serving on the Inclusiveness Committee include the following. Board members may be nominated by a committee or may be invited to participate by the executive director or board chair. (Select two to four board members.) 

Senior staff members serving on the committee will include: (select the number of senior staff appropriate for your organization)

Other staff serving on the committee will include: (select as many as are appropriate)

Volunteers serving on the committee will include: (select one or two, if appropriate)

The Chairperson of the Inclusiveness Committee will be: 

The complete roster of Inclusiveness Committee members:

Name of Organization __________________________________________

Date Worksheet Completed _________