Creative Equity Toolkit

Budget Equity Assessment Tool

Developed by the US City of Portland for its bureaus, this tool offers a self-assessment to assess how equity is prioritised and addressed within budgets. While not developed for arts projects, this checklist offers insight into methods of equity-testing budgets.

Cultural governance, cultural equity and self-determination in the dance sector: Merindah Donnelly

Wiradjuri woman Merindah Donnelly is the co-CEO and Executive Producer at BlakDance.

'Let’s not get distracted from our own self-determination by trying to ensure that non-Indigenous organisations are doing cultural engagement better. They got to do that. But we also have our own thing and that’s a human right and we can live in a world where both of those things coexist.'

Diversity & Inclusion Infrastructure Councils DBP Research Request

A report on the allocation of staff and financial resources to diversity and inclusion (D&I) functions from a benchmarking study of finance, healthcare and insurance companies. D&I spend per employee for member organisations varied widely from $12.50 to $250. Includes line categories for the D&I budget, and examples of diversity goals, as well as information on developing a D&I council.

'More than half of the companies benchmarked allocate approximately 2-3% of their overall budget to D&I.'

Diversity-Inspired Museum Fellowships Are Noble—But Do They Lead to Success?

In 2017, the Ford Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation invested US$6 million into a project to diversify arts leadership by building pipelines of talent. In this review of the Diversifying Art Museum Initiative, one of the beneficiary fellows writers about the program, which has not yet led to further work for her in the arts industry.

‘Diversity fellowships should be not only opportunities for those who receive them but also for the museums that administer them.'

Inclusive Pathways Framework

Report for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School looking at barriers to inclusion and ways to combat them.

'A key support that several consultees for this project mentioned was tracking opportunities for career progression and making them known to aspirants to kindle ambitions and find ways to address barriers.'

'There is a tendency in Australian arts practice to confine under-represented practitioners to ‘community arts’ rather than mainstream, professional content development. '

Looking beyond the horizon: How CIOs can embed DEI into succession planning

Guideposts and principles to help CIOs transform their succession-planning efforts to better prepare and promote a truly diverse slate of new leaders

'executives frequently struggle to pass the baton to diverse candidates: Companies often haven’t built diverse networks or recruited talent that more closely resembles a broader multidimensional workforce.'