When leadership changes, does your organization's commitment to equity change with it?

Transitions, whether a founder departure, an executive director search, board turnover, or a period of organizational restructuring, are moments of both risk and opportunity for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging work. Too often, DEIB commitments live in the values of individual leaders rather than in the systems and policies of the organization itself, leaving them vulnerable to being deprioritized, diluted, or quietly dropped when key people move on.

Join us for a focused, one-hour virtual strategy session designed for nonprofit executive directors, senior managers, and board members who want to ensure that DEIB values are embedded in their organization's infrastructure, not just its personalities.

Most nonprofit fundraising was built by and for white-dominant organizations (often, with white donors in mind). For example, leading every donor communication with scarcity and urgency, centering donors over community dignity, and expecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) staff to perform gratitude and manage wealthy donors' feelings as part of their job description. This session applies Tema Okun's white supremacy culture framework directly to fundraising and development. We’ll name where these norms show up, what they cost BIPOC-led organizations specifically, and what it looks like to build something different.

Over the past seven years, Healing Equity United’s (HEU) community has grown through shared learning, courageous conversations, and a collective commitment to advancing equity and inclusion. Many of you have participated in our webinars, strategy sessions, and other learning opportunities, and have also generously supported our work with their time, energy, and resources. Your engagement has helped sustain and strengthen this community, and we are deeply grateful.

As a token of appreciation, HEU invites you to join our upcoming virtual listening session designed specifically for our most dedicated supporters and participants.

This session is an opportunity to connect, reflect, and share your experiences as you navigate equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) work within your organizations and communities.

You care about equity. You show up. You do the work, or at least, you think you do.

But what happens when the way you're showing up is actually getting in the way?

In this candid, thought-provoking strategy session, we're tackling one of the most uncomfortable (and unspoken) dynamics in progressive spaces: white narcissism in allyship, and why it's particularly damaging when it shows up in nonprofit leadership.

Most nonprofits are struggling right now. Government funding (federal, state, and local) has been slashed. And honestly, for most nonprofits doing the work, it feels like a crisis.
But as attacks on nonprofits continue, it is also revealing something many of us have long known: we need to diversify our funding sources. Most nonprofits have revenue that largely comes from just a few sources: government funding, foundations, or a few major gifts. And smaller organizations struggle with limited capacity. So, how do we do this?

Creating systems of community care within our organizations when government safety nets are dismantled. Mutual aid organizing is rooted in principles that challenge how traditional nonprofits function: shared decision-making instead of top-down authority, collective care instead of individualized burnout, and conflict as something to work through rather than avoid. These aren't just ideals—they're practiced methods that have sustained grassroots movements through some of the hardest moments in recent history.

Whether your organization is highly hierarchical or experimenting with flatter structures, mutual aid offers tested frameworks for working in groups, making decisions collectively, preventing and addressing conflict constructively, and building cultures of care that actually prevent burnout rather than just responding to it.

We're nearly halfway through 2026—and a year and a half into relentless crisis, political backlash, and compounding loss. Many of us are operating on autopilot, shaped by exhaustion, urgency, and survival mode. This workshop offers a pause: a chance to check in with yourself, assess how you're actually showing up, and make intentional choices about the second half of this year.

Colorism, ethnic hierarchy, anti-Blackness: how oppression shows up within AANHPI spaces and what to do to unpack these dynamics.

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities are often treated as monolithic—flattened into a single narrative that erases the vast differences in history, migration, language, class, and experience across these populations.

But oppression doesn't only come from outside AANHPI communities. It also operates within them—through colorism, ethnic hierarchies, anti-Blackness, class divides, and the ways that proximity to whiteness and model minority narratives create internal stratification and harm.

In nonprofit organizations that serve or are led by AANHPI communities, these dynamics often go unexamined. Leadership may center certain ethnic groups while marginalizing others. Hiring practices may favor those with specific language skills, educational backgrounds, or immigration statuses. Colorism may shape whose voices are elevated and whose labor is visible. And anti-Blackness—rooted in both historical context and ongoing systems of white supremacy—may show up in organizational culture, coalition work, and community relationships.

This strategy session invites AANHPI leaders and those working within or alongside AANHPI communities to examine how oppression operates internally—and what accountability and healing require in response.

You've got questions. We've got answers. Join Healing Equity United for a free Ask Us Anything Session — an open hour to dig into nonprofit leadership, people and culture, board governance, DEIB strategy, and more. All of it grounded in a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging lens.

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Is your organization unknowingly perpetuating assumptions about belonging, professionalism, safety, and who “counts” as an immigrant?

Anti-immigrant bias is often imagined as overt hostility or political rhetoric. In the United States, immigrant identity has long been racialized—shaping whose belonging is questioned and whose labor is valued, but whose presence remains conditional. But in nonprofit organizations, it more often shows up through quieter assumptions about belonging, professionalism, safety, and who “counts” as an immigrant. Many organizations that serve immigrant communities have never examined how anti-immigrant bias may operate within their own institutions—through hiring practices, workplace norms, leadership pipelines, and the silence around immigration as a workplace issue.

Immigration in the United States has long been tied to race, labor, and belonging. In this session, we’ll explore the hidden assumptions that shape how immigrant identity is recognized, erased, or made conditional in professional spaces—even among people who believe they support immigrant communities.

Beyond good intentions: a live strategy session on what justice-aligned governance requires of white women leaders today.

In a moment marked by intensified state violence, political backlash against DEIB, and widening inequities, governance is not neutral—and neither is leadership.

When the world feels unstable, leadership doesn’t have to mean exhaustion. This 90-minute interactive workshop helps nonprofit leaders reset norms around sustainability, clarity, and care.

We talk about equity. We talk about inclusion. But are we actually listening to Black women?

If your organization made commitments to racial justice in 2020 but you're wondering what real change looks like in the wake of everything happening in 2026, this invitation is for you.

State violence against immigrants is escalating. This strategy session focuses on moving from witness to coordinated action when inaction becomes complicity.

Workplaces are often the site of profound psychological and emotional distress for employees from historically marginalized communities—not only due to racial trauma but also due to oppression-based traumatic stress (OBTS). While race-based traumatic stress (RBTS) has gained recognition, OBTS remains underexplored despite its significant impact on workplace culture, employee well-being, and organizational outcomes.

This research-based webinar will present key findings from our OBTS study, shedding light on how OBTS manifests in workplace environments and what leaders, HR professionals, and organizations can do to address and mitigate its effects.

🔑 Webinar Goals

• Understand how OBTS manifests on individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels in workplace environments.

• Identify key organizational strategies, policies, and leadership interventions that help mitigate OBTS.

• Equip attendees with practical tools to create workplaces that prioritize psychological safety, inclusion, and well-being.

🎯 Who Should Attend?

This webinar is designed for HR professionals, People & Culture leaders, DEIB practitioners, executive and senior leaders, managers and supervisors, mental health professionals, workplace well-being advocates, and nonprofit and advocacy professionals.

Join us in this critical conversation to explore how we can build workplaces that truly support and uplift employees facing systemic oppression.

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In this moment of intensified ICE raids, rising anti-immigrant sentiment, the banning of words like “diversity” and “inclusion,” and the widespread dismantling of DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) efforts, we are witnessing harm through the escalation of state-sanctioned oppression. This one-hour webinar offers clear, actionable guidance on how to be a strong and effective bystander in the face of injustice—whether it’s happening in your workplace, your neighborhood, or in public policy.

We’ll discuss real-life scenarios and give you tools to recognize harm, intervene, and support those most impacted—especially immigrants, Black Indigenous and Other People of Color, and other historically marginalized communities. Whether you’re witnessing harassment at work, discrimination in public spaces, or policy rollbacks in your organization, you have a role to play.

As we navigate 2025, many of us are carrying different aspects or parts of ourselves—some rooted in resilience, others shaped by fear, urgency, or past experiences. Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers a powerful framework to explore these inner dynamics, helping us engage with our thoughts, emotions, and reactions with greater clarity and compassion. Although rooted in Western psychology, in this space it will be shared through a decolonized lens.

This interactive self-reflection workshop will help participants understand their "parts"—the inner voices that influence our actions, from the protector who avoids conflict to the perfectionist striving for control. Through guided exercises, journaling, and discussions, participants will gain tools to move through this year with greater self-awareness, intention, and emotional resilience.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model of self-exploration that helps us recognize that we are made up of different “parts” that shape how we think, feel, and respond to the world around us. Some parts work to protect us, while others carry burdens from past experiences. At our core, we each have a Self—a grounded, compassionate presence that can lead with clarity and wisdom.

By learning to understand and engage with our parts rather than being controlled by them, we can:

✅ Develop greater self-awareness and emotional regulation.

✅ Make values-aligned decisions rather than reacting from fear or self-doubt.

✅ Show up in the spaces we occupy—work, relationships, activism, leadership—with more authenticity and integrity.

This workshop provides a non-therapeutic space for self-reflection, helping you explore how different aspects of yourself are showing up in 2025 and how to lead from a place of greater self-trust. Interested? Apply now to participate in the workshop.

White women hold significant influence and power across many sectors, and yet many often unknowingly perpetuate white supremacy norms. While experiencing gender-based oppression, many white women have also internalized racial superiority, reinforcing systems that exclude and marginalize women of color.

This webinar will explore how white women can critically examine their biases, recognize harmful leadership patterns, and take actionable steps toward accountability and inclusion. We will also discuss strategies for calling in/calling out white women in leadership and disrupting white-dominant norms to create space folks of historically marginalized identities.

🔑 Webinar Goals

• Understand how white women perpetuate white supremacy, even in equity-focused spaces.

• Learn to recognize and unlearn internalized superiority and white-dominant habits.

• Explore ways to take accountability and make space for folks of marginalized identities.

🎯 Who Should Attend?

This webinar is for white women in leadership, aspiring allies, and anyone invested in dismantling white supremacy in workplaces, communities, and personal relationships.

Our webinars are always free, but we appreciate a suggested $10 donation to help sustain Healing Equity United’s work, time, and expertise. Thank you for your support!

On behalf of Black History Month, join us for a crucial conversation with panelists of Black leaders who are still finding ways to push forward diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within their communities and, more generally, offering a space to explore how to navigate life in 2025. The moderated discussion will feature panelists sharing their thoughts on handling national DEIB challenges, how organizations can better support Black staff, and practical steps for thriving despite obstacles. It’s a chance to connect, find inspiration, and build resilience together.

As the Trump administration prepares to take office, nonprofit organizations face growing concerns about their ability to operate. We're facing a direct threat to our communities and the people we serve. The incoming Trump administration represents an unprecedented challenge to immigrant rights, civil liberties, and the core values of our work. This isn't business as usual - we need to act now to protect our people, strengthen our organizations, and build collective resistance. This intensive workshop brings together nonprofit leaders to move beyond fear into action. Together, we'll create concrete protection plans for our communities, develop rapid response protocols for our organizations, and build the strong networks we need for the fight ahead. This is a space for honest conversation, strategic planning, and building collective power in the face of what's coming.

Goals:

1. Gain Clarity on Potential Threats: Understand how the incoming Trump administration’s policies and rhetoric could impact nonprofit organizations, including concerns about 501(c)(3) status, funding, and community support.

2. Develop Strategic Safeguards: Learn actionable strategies to protect your organization’s mission, status, and funding while continuing to advocate effectively and legally for historically marginalized communities.

3. Strengthen Advocacy and Anti-Oppression Practices: Gain tools to integrate anti-oppression principles into your work and prepare for sustained advocacy efforts during the mid-term elections and beyond.

4. Start Creating Tangible Actions: Collaborate with peers to develop actionable protection plans that safeguard your communities and ensure continued access to critical resources and services.

Who Should Attend: Nonprofit leaders, staff, and advocates concerned about the incoming administration’s impact on their organizations and communities.

Join us for this webinar to dive into the systemic barriers that disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities, preventing equitable access to voting.

We'll examine historical and current voter suppression tactics, the role of racial bias in election laws and practices, and how these obstacles are intentionally designed to disenfranchise historically marginalized groups. We'll also touch on the legal, social, and political implications of these barriers while offering insights into advocacy efforts and tangible solutions aimed at ensuring fair and equitable voting rights for all.

Join our webinar as we delve into the intricacies of oppression, exploring whether those experiencing it might unintentionally contribute to its perpetuation. We'll focus on quieting internalized oppression, fostering self-reflection, and reimagining systems for empowerment. Participants will also gain tools to unpack and challenge ingrained beliefs of oppression and superiority. This thought-provoking session aims to inspire open dialogue, self-discovery, and the development of strategies to break free from the cyclical nature of oppression.

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When power is concentrated in well-intentioned white women leaders and institutions, what can we do to address pervasive white supremacy?

The majority of nonprofit leadership (including boards) identify as white. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) women have a different (more difficult) fight for equity in the nonprofit sector (and beyond). To achieve gender equality across the board, we need to address the ways in which white supremacy norms are perpetuated in our organizations. While white women have faced gender oppression, there’s also a need to recognize how there could be an internalized sense of racial superiority.

March is Gender Equality and Women's History Month. This is a time to celebrate women's (ALL women - white and BIPOC) contributions to society and recommit to the fight for gender equity.

This free webinar will provide awareness on what it can look like for white women leaders to unpack their biases and internalized superiority, how to call out/in white women in leadership, and how to disrupt the white dominant habits and make room for BIPOC women to have a seat at the table.

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Join Fiona Oliphant of Healing Equity United and a few amazing guest speakers as they share insights into how they're advancing their impactful work as Black leaders in the nonprofit sector, what will bring them joy in 2024, and how they prioritize wellness to build resilience.

Healing Equity United started five years ago after our co-founders, Fiona and Jess, witnessed decades of little change in nonprofit culture to become spaces of inclusion and belonging. We were determined to support organizations and BIPOC/Global Majority leaders in our sector.

We are excited to be celebrating our 5th year! Come out and celebrate with us. Learn about our new initiatives and meet our staff and supporters.

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, by Laura E. Gómez is a much-needed examination of the Latino/a/e/x identity. Latinos are the second largest demographic in the United States, but people often are confused—is Latino a race? An ethnicity? Whom does this identity include? Gómez explains to us that Latino is indeed a race and that anti-Latino racism was the catalyst for this umbrella identity.

Let's dive deep into this thought-provoking book together to talk about the social construct of race and how it's changed over time for the Latino community.

In a white-dominant culture, all People of the Global Majority experience race-based traumatic stress at varying levels. Healing from and understanding our individual and collective race-based traumas can build bridges for cross-racial solidarity.

During the 2020s all People of the Global Majority have been experiencing heightened stress and trauma related to racism. Without individual and collective healing, ongoing systemic injustice and oppression can lead to compounded emotional harm. And unfortunately, our race-based traumas can sometimes lead to division within our community.

How can we better understand our race-based traumas to move toward healing? What actions can we take to build solidarity across the Global Majority community?

Join us for this training and conversation on:

• Understanding race-based trauma and its impacts on the individual and the community

• Identifying positive coping and management of racial trauma responses

• Strategizing actions and next steps that you can take towards healing and building solidarity

Race, equity, and inclusion work trigger strong emotions and responses of defensiveness and resistance. Understanding that change is difficult, this class is a brave healing space where we can unpack our own biases, deal with fragility, address trauma, and understand how we can show up in solidarity with other marginalized communities.

Join us to learn what you need to do to embrace an anti-racist culture on nonprofit boards.

If you've been trying to recruit diverse board members and have had little luck, you're not alone. Did you know that 84% of nonprofit board members in the U.S. are white? Why is this? What can we do as nonprofit board members and executives to build an anti-racist culture on our board? How do we recruit and retain diversity so that our board reflects the communities we're serving?

This training is for nonprofit board members and executive directors looking to shift the culture of boards to be focused on anti-racism.

There's a lot of excitement around New York Times Best Selling Author, R. F. Kuang's Yellowface. White lies, dark humor, and deadly consequences? You know this is going to be a good read!

We'll discuss deep questions related to diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the role of social media in our lives.