ASSESS
Take assessment to see where your multi-sector collaboration is on your equity journey.
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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.
Prepare as a group
What does equity mean for you? Why is it important? Who can we invite to take this journey with us?
Take the assessment individually
Remember: there is no right answer. Just choose “don’t know” for any questions you feel unprepared to answer.
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.
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)
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:
I would like to take the BEACON Assessment (Part 6: Shift from a Backbone to a Root Body)
In my community collaboration:
Tools for Changing Ourselves - ABCs for Equity
A AACT: How effective is our collaboration?
B BEACON: How equitable is our collaboration?
C COMPASS: Where are we on our own journey to equity and racial justice?