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Social Innovation Alone Can’t Solve Racial Inequality (www.ssir.org)

 

Excerpts from an article by Shawn Ginwright & Sai Seigel in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Well-meaning executives sometimes underestimate the emotional depth of the harm, shame, pain, and anger people feel when talking about their experiences with racial inequality. To gauge your individual and institutional readiness to engage in social innovation and racial equity, you might ask yourself a few questions:

  • Does the board or governing body of my organization have buy-in to address racial equity?
  • Does the CEO express enthusiasm and passion for both social innovation and racial equity?
  • Are there resources (time, money, human capital) that can support moving a social innovation and racial equity agenda?

Those who believe that they are using social innovation to address social problems need to reflect on whether they are centering race and racial inequality in their thinking and practice. This will require more than reading the latest literature on race or reviewing the top blogs on inequality. It will also require something we all have but sometimes undervalue—our hearts. Not that thinking is overrated, but sometimes we spend much more time pondering rapid solutions to problems than on feeling the steady pace of self-discovery. We suspect that, for those of us on the journey toward equity, we will begin to see the importance of engaging our hearts and developing courage to take a hard look at the causes of inequality and reflect on our responsibility towards nurturing equality.

Read more of this article by Shawn Ginwright & Sai Seigel in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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