Creative Equity Toolkit

The Creative Equity Toolkit has links to hundreds of practical resources, inspiring case studies and important research on increasing diversity in the arts.

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Let's Talk About Race

Inspired by their Race at Work survey (2015), this guide, produced by Business in the Community, aims to enable business leaders, employers and policy makers to start conversations and openly discuss issues of race and ethnicity within their organisations.

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2023
    Country: UK

  • Author: Business in the Community

Report

Letting the Movement Decide

A report evaluating FRIDA’s impact that documents a funding model designed to promote emerging leadership, respond to changing realities, offer transparency, shift philanthropic power dynamics, and function as a learning and knowledge development hub for broader feminist and philanthropic communities.

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  • 60 minute
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  • Published: 2015
    Country: Global

  • Author: FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund with Lafayette Practice

Article

Justice Funders

A blog series featuring stories by thought leaders contributing to justice transitions in philanthropy. Designed to inspire the US sector to re-imagine and practice a new kind of philanthropy that redistributes wealth, democratises power and shifts economic control to communities.

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  • 8 minute
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  • Published: 2018
    Country: USA

  • Author: Justice Funders

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Little Book of Evaluation Tools

Case studies, resources and response rates for various creative evaluation tools set up at the Curiosity Carnival, a festival of public engagement with research at venues throughout Oxford University. Includes a graffiti wall, rating cards, audience participation exercise, feedback postcards, text/email feedback, observation, facilitated rating questions and love hearts.

'For short one-off engagement activities, evaluation tools can be light-touch, designed to feel part of the activity.'

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  • 19 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: UK

  • Author: University of Oxford

Research

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Living Music Report

Survey of programming in Australian Major Performing Arts Organisations in 2019, measuring the diversity of the repertoire of Australia's largest orchestras.

Out of the 2006 works performed across 2019:

'3% were written by female composers
9% were written by Australian composers
19% were written by living composers
0.45% were written by CALD Australian composers
0.05% were written by First Nations composers'

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  • 20 minute
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  • Published: 2020
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Ciaran Frame

Article

Living with the Lams: CBBC in race row over children's show

Coverage of the controversy when non-Chinese writers were employed to write the 'Living with the Lams' TV program for CBBC, although a Chinese script consultant had been hired. "Even if it's done with the best intentions, there's something slimy about claiming someone else's story for your own and deciding how to tell it."

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: UK

  • Author: BBC