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ASSESS

Take assessment to see where your multi-sector collaboration is on your equity journey.

Photo Credit to WE in the World

Who is it for?

  • Your core team or backbone organization

  • Your partner organizations and members

  • Your community residents and/or people with lived experience of inequities (for example, food insecurity, homelessness and racism)

USING THE BEACON ASSESSMENT

The online assessment makes it easy for a group of people to take the assessment together, learn from diverse perspectives and chart a path forward together.

BEACONassessment
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Prepare as a group

What does equity mean for you? Why is it important? Who can we invite to take this journey with us?

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Take the assessment 
individually

Remember: there is no right answer.  Just choose “don’t know” for any questions you feel unprepared to answer.

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Talk it through as a group

Discuss questions for which you might have a difference of 4 or more in your scores to understand each other’s perspectives. Arrive at a common score based on your conversation.

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Set goals and chart a path forward

Download the action plan as a reference.  Identify up to five priorities (questions) to work on and develop a transformation plan. Decide on a goal for each of these items. Create an improvement plan for each of these priorities (see Act) 

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Reassess

Reassess your progress every 3-6 months for just the improvement questions you chose.  Take the full BEACON assessment at least once a year.

I would like to take the BEACON Assessment
(Part 1: Share Leadership and Power)

In my community
collaboration:

I would like to take the BEACON Assessment
(Part 2:  Define Ambitious Equity Goals and Use Data)

In my community
collaboration:

I would like to take the BEACON Assessment
(Part 3: Design Structures and Processes to Address Structural Inequities )

In my community
collaboration:

I would like to take the BEACON Assessment
(Part 4: Address Root Causes of Inequity)

In my community
collaboration:

I would like to take the BEACON Assessment
(Part 5:  Members Walk the Talk)

In my community
collaboration:

Coming Soon

I would like to take the BEACON Assessment
(Part 6:  Shift from a Backbone to a Root Body)

In my community
collaboration:

Coming Soon

Tools for Changing Ourselves  -   ABCs for Equity

A

AACT:  How effective is our collaboration?

Take the AACT

B

BEACON:  How equitable is our collaboration?

Take the BEACON

C

COMPASS:  Where are we on our own journey to equity and racial justice?

Take the COMPASS
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