![]() Success of a different sort, his parents hope, will come from the treatment. In a ritual he had adopted over the past two weeks of stem-cell treatment and time in the oxygen chamber, he set out to find one more snail than he had the day before. We believe equity is a reiterative process, and with this recognition, we are committed to reflecting on this statement every year to ensure we are advancing equity within our own organization.Members of the Rock Harbor Church in Mission Viejo weren’t watching when Andrew Burkhart, five years old and wearing a brace on his left leg, scampered out of an Orange County medical clinic and into the parking lot, looking for lizards and snails.Īndrew had been stuck for an hour in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber getting treatment for cerebral palsy, and now – everyone agreed – he really needed to move around.Ĭombing the asphalt, he announced in triumph that he had found Speedy, “a very fast lizard.” Allocate sufficient resources to support ongoing individual and organizational learning and knowledge about equity as it informs our work in advancing pluralism.Identify and seek ways to reduce and eliminate the ways in which individual and systemic biases, discrimination, and barriers impact our organization and the communities/sectors we engage.Provide equitable access and opportunity to employment, grants, investments and partnerships.Foster a staff and board culture that actively engages, values the contributions of, and reflects the diverse stakeholders we serve.Inspirit is committed to ensuring that principles of equity are integrated into every aspect of our work in ways that will enable us to: We also recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples to determine their own frameworks for equity. Equity work challenges unfair systems and practices, and works towards the creation of fair access and outcomes. It recognizes equal treatment for everyone does not always yield equal results due to systemic exclusion and discrimination. Equity strives to create equal access and outcomes for all. We believe equity is the foundation for building a pluralist society. We define pluralism as the energetic engagement with diversity, the active seeking of understanding across lines of difference, and a process of nurturing constructive dialogue that contributes to a deep sense of belonging. We do this by funding media and arts for social change and investing our capital in ways that align with our mission. Inspirit is a public foundation focused on building a pluralist Canada. We are privileged to support and work with nations and partners across Turtle Island. This territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. ![]() The Inspirit office is located on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. ![]() We also acknowledge board and or staff members of African descent whose ancestors were forcibly displaced as part of the transatlantic slave trade, brought against their will, and made to work on these lands. We believe that advancing Indigenous sovereignty and Black liberation are deeply and inextricably linked to one another and we remain committed to advancing both. Our roots lie in all continents across the world, except Antarctica. Inspirit staff and or board members are also made up of settlers, immigrants, descendants of immigrants, or a combination thereof. The Inspirit Foundation is honoured to have Indigenous board and or staff members from the Anishinaabe, Cree, and Dënesułiné communities. ![]()
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