Developing Equity Informed HR Practices for Your Land Trust

Your organization has recently embarked on a DEI assessment, established a DEI committee for your board, or maybe adopted a work plan to better incorporate equity into your conservation strategies. Now what?    

A review of your organization’s HR process may offer additional ways for leadership to adopt and maintain a culture of inclusion for your staff, volunteers and members.   

Following its own development of an updated DEI action plan, Conservation Trust for North Carolina partnered with Big Change Consulting to establish an equity-based employee handbook that is forward-looking, pro-employee, legally compliant and actionable. Hear from CTNC and Big Change about the steps they took to engage staff and board effectively, how the new handbook is continuing CTNC’s commitment to establishing an inclusive workplace environment and how your organization might assess if an HR review is the right next step for your team.   

Here's a look at what we will cover:   

• Why you should update your handbook to be more equitable (there are always opportunities for improvement).  

• How an HR review will help your organization be effective and efficient in a post-pandemic working environment. 

• CTNC's experience developing and implementing a new handbook. 

• Benefits CTNC is seeing so far. 

• How to's and tips.