Pathway to Actions
Is your impact organization (nonprofit) looking for ways to deepen commitments to justice and equity?
Are you looking for ideas, knowledge, tools, and tangible practices to move from learning to action?
The Pathway to Actions survey will help you navigate tools and resources to support your organization in growing knowledge, shifting mindsets, and moving to action – based on where you are in your journey.
Access a pathway of curated resources and tools to create more inclusive, equitable workplaces.
Why Deepen Equity Commitments?
Our work begins from the understanding that current systems and structures are not serving those working and volunteering in impact organizations, or the people they are serving. To address the challenges of our time, we recognize the crucial need for a more just, equitable, and community-driven approach to reimagining our work and society. IONS is learning how to live these values and practicing what it means to embody justice and equity in everything we do and supporting others in their journeys.
It takes consistent, collective, and ongoing efforts to reimagine our workplaces. Engaging in this work encourages your team to collectively examine your actions, processes, and behaviours to disrupt, reimagine and build change. To read our full justice and equity statement visit our website.
How to approach the survey
The survey asks you to reflect on how your organization might behave in a variety of situations. Whether you’re sitting down with your team or filling this out individually, think about how your organization would respond in your current context and answer as honestly as possible. This will provide you with curated tools and resources that will support your group at this time.
Discover your organizational persona!
Learn how your organization is showing up in its justice and equity work by uncovering your organizational persona.
Based on community research with impact organizations in Mi’kma’ki, these organizational personas outline common motivations, needs, and barriers faced in this work. Your organizational persona will help you reflect on your journey and plan what’s needed for your team to move forward to create more inclusive workplaces.
Find out how your organization is behaving and receive 10 recommended resources for next steps.
How we approach learning
We all learn differently and our capacity to engage can vary based on our mood, learning topics, and our time commitments. We’ve organized resources by a head, hand, and heart structure based on which style of engagement is most prominent. Search for these icons to find a resource that supports your current learning style.
Head
If you’re in the mood to learn from other’s experiences and expertise to develop knowledge, worldviews, or mindsets, these resources may help you think differently about new topics and concepts. These include learning guides, reports, and courses.
Heart
If you’re craving ways to shift attitudes and values, confidence or critical thinking, these resources may shift how individuals or teams relate to themselves and those around them. These include deep thinking exercises, reflective activities, and inspirational stories.
Hand
If you’re looking to develop skills to make change through tangible actions, these tools will help you practice, adapt, pivot or shake up ways of working. These include assessments, webinars, toolkits, and individual readings.
Learn more about IONS
Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia (IONS) supports the staff and volunteers who are organizing and working to build a more just and equitable Mi’kma’ki. Our role is to address sector workforce challenges, bringing people together for collective learning, building collaborative networks, conducting research, sharing promising practices, and amplifying the vital work of the sector.
IONS is working to disrupt and transform systems to build new ways of working and being in community. Our purpose is to contribute to a just and equitable society by empowering people in the Community Impact Sector to be leaders of transformative change.
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