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We strive for for an anti-racist approach to volunteering. What does this mean? We examine our practice and our platform and work to reduce systemic barriers and practices that keep people from engagement getting involved. Our staff are committed to continuing our learning journey and making improvements to our platform support anti-racist practice. Our view on volunteering is broad. We are here for volunteering in all of its forms including activism, and protesting. 

Black Lives Matter

• Toronto https://blacklivesmatter.ca/
• Edmonton https://www.facebook.com/BLMyeg/
• Calgary - https://www.facebook.com/groups/641016212741554
• Vancouver - https://blacklivesmattervancouver.com/

Are you looking to organize a protest, get people engaged in a letter-writing campaign or awareness? Get started here and check out this list of resources.

Canadian Organizations to engage with support that are doing Anti-Racist work:

CommunityWise – Anti-Racism Organizational Change (AROC) - http://communitywise.net/aroc/

ActionDignity - https://actiondignity.org/programs/indie-albertanonprofits/

Centre for Race and Culture Edmonton - https://cfrac.com/training/anti-racism-workshop-series/

Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan - http://mcos.ca/anti-racism-101/

Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants - https://ocasi.org/

Books to Read:

• Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race – Reni Eddo Lodge
• How To Be An Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
• Me And White Supremacy – Layla Saad
• White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
• The Skin We’re In – Desmond Cole
• Highway of Tears – Jessica McDiarmid
• They Call Me George – Cecil Foster
• AfricVille – Jeffrey Colvin
• Frying Plantain – Zalika Reid-Benta
• The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead

More … https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/204842963/1357692923

Films to Watch:

• Seven Seconds
• 13th
• Fruitvale Station
• When They See Us
• Teach Us All
• LA 92
• Get Out
• Selma

Podcasts:

• Floodlines
• 1619
• Intersectionality Matters!
• Throughlines

Other:

• TEDX Tuning Into Your Inner Resilience
• TEDX Fat and Black with the Audacity to be a Badass
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action - http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Templates:

Holding Your Employer Accountable - https://www.patreon.com/posts/37737054

The Anti-harassment Policy - https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/eng/content/template-developing-anti-harassment-policy

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