On taking action inside your organization

• Highlighted! How to get your organization's anti-racism work unstuck, by Healing Solidarity Advisory Circle, 26 May 2021
• Highlighted! Professional do-gooders, here’s 14 ways to be in action against anti-Black racism, by Healing Solidarity Advisory Circle, 1 June 2020
• Policymakers and racial justice activists came together to discuss decolonising aid. Here’s what happened…, The New Humanitarian, 11 August 2022
• Racism in aid sector is a hangover of colonialism, says scathing report by MPs, Guardian UK, 23 June 2022
• Dollars and Dissent: Donor Support for Grassroots Organizing and Nonviolent Movements, Benjamin Naimark-Rowse, September 2022
• Inhabiting Worlds Where Black Lives Really Matter, Ari Sahagún, 24 February 2022
• How racism manifests itself in NGO culture and structures, Lena Bheeroo and Andres Gomez de la Torre, 6 April 2022
• Time to Decolonise Aid: Insights and lessons from a global consultation, Peace Direct, Adeso, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security, November 2020
• ‘Grassroots means no brains': How to tackle racism in the aid sector, by Rashida Petersen and Jennifer Lentfer, in Guardian UK, 4 August 2017
• A Blueprint for Black Lives Matter in the Development Sector, by Hannah Rhyder, 29 June 2020
• How Funders Can Deepen Their Support for a Black-led Movement Ecosystem, by Rajasvini Bhansali and Nwamaka Agbo, 20 October 2020
• Time to dismantle racism in international development, Bond UK, 17 June 2020
• What capacities might white people in international development need to build in ourselves in order to commit to anti-racist practice?, Mary Ann Clements, 23 July 2020
• DEI Approach is No Longer Relevant: Operationalizing Racial Justice in Non-Profit Organizations, Maggie Potapchuk, 7 August 2020
• "A lot of talk but not much action": Are charities finally ready to tackle institutional racism?, Emily Burt, 3 August 2020
• We must translate anti-racism statements into action, by Dorothy Peprah, 30 Jun 2020
• From rhetoric to action — an equity roadmap for the aid community, by Roxanne Paisible in Devex, 22 June 2020
• Beyond lip service: Tackling racism in your development organisation, Lauren Reese in The New Humanitarian, 17 June 2020
• On equity in the international development sector — we need more intravists, by Blessing Omakwu in Devex, 5 June 2020
• INGOs can help dismantle development's 'white gaze,' PopWorks Africa founder says, Devex, 6 January 2020
• So What Do We Do Next?, by Marissa Germain, 23 June 2020
• Difficult Conversations: Why International Practitioners Must Do More to Address Racism at Home, Dost Bardouille, CDA Learning, June 2020
• Realizing Diversity, Accelerating Impact: State of Diversity in Global Social Impact, 2018, Farah Mahesri, Quantum Impact
• What role can privileged white people play in international development?, by Mary Ann Clements in Bright Magazine, 24 October 2018
• The only way to fight racism in our sector, by Jennifer Lentfer, 15 July 2018

Online resources

• The Healing Solidarity Collective - online platform (and yearly conference and ’Getting Ourselves Together’ practice group) created to reimagine #globaldev 
• how-matters.org
• www.diasporicdevelopment.org - creating a safe space for Black people in the sector who want to be connectors, influencers and change makers
• www.agency.ngo 
• Decolonialfutures.net
• Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid, CDA Learning (Here's some highlights of the book.)
• Community-Centric Fundraising
• Pop Works Africa & #BlackWomenInDev
• nowhitesaviors.org 
• www.dismantlingracism.org & Me and White Supremacy workbook 
• Racism in the aid sector: Initial findings 2020, Thomson Reuters & Aid Works

Tools to enhance your practice and resources for work

• White Supremacy Culture within organizations 
• White Women doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture, By Heather Laine Talley
• Whiteness at Work, Adaway Group
• Resmaa Menakem www.resmaa.com - resources on racialized trauma and healing
• Designing Healing Organizations
• HEADS UP checklist, by Vanessa de Oliveira (Andreotti)

• Hegemony
• Ethnocentrism
• Ahistoricism
• Depoliticisation
• Salvationism
• Uncomplicated solutions
• Paternalism

• Remember, how WEIRD your experience is!

• W - Western
• E - Educated
• I - Industrialized
• R - Rich
• D - emocratic

• Liberating Structures
• Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People, Mariame Kaba
• Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis, by Deepa Iyer
• Harvard Implicit Bias Quiz: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html 

Keep learning from others’ lived experiences in our sector

(articles in chronological order - scroll to the bottom of this list so you know this conversation is not new)

• Highlighted! Uprooting racism in grantmaking, by Jane Tanner, Kamna Muralidharan and Kate Hitchcock in Alliance Magazine, 17 May 2021
• Highlighted! How international NGOs racialise and silence Palestinian civil society, by Falastine Saleh, 2 January 2025
• Highlighted! White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences, anthology by Themrise Khan, Kanakulya Dickson and Maïka Sondarjee, 2023.
• Uncharitable Reading (a comic), by Yazan Al-Saadi and Hicham Rahma, 6 March 2023
• Localisation only pays lip service to fixing aid’s colonial legacy, Maha Shuayb, 8 February 2022
• Racism doesn’t just exist within aid. It’s the structure the sector is built on, Themrise Khan, 31 August 2021
• Decolonising aid is not supposed to be easy, Moky Makura, 23 August 2021
• Dear White Women In International Development, Lazenya Weekes-Richemond, 18 August 2021
• A racial reckoning at nonprofits: Black women demand better pay, opportunities, Washington Post, 11 July 2021
• Seeping Racism & The Paradox Of "Doing Good": What It's Like To Be A Black Woman In Leadership In The Development Sector, Joan Okitoi-Heisig, 23 April 2021
• When defensive becomes offensive, La Mehdood, 31 March 2021
• My privilege has given me opportunities. It’s time to use that privilege, Mohammed Ali, 25 February 2021
• Can Development Aid ever be Anti-Racist? Neha Kagal, 19 February 2021
• BIPoC in NGOs: Beware of Posting on Facebook, You Could Offend White Peers, Maria Rebeca Ortiz, 10 February 2021
• Why diversity, equity, and inclusion alone won't dismantle structural racism in globaldev, Angela Bruce-Raeburn, 9 February 2021
• Decolonisation is a comfortable buzzword for the aid sector, Themrise Khan, 15 January 2021
• From Words to Action: How to Begin to Dismantle Racism in Global Health and Development, Angela Bruce Raeburn, 15 January 2021
• So You’ve Hired a Diversity and Inclusion Expert? Here Are Six Ways You Could Be Undermining Them, Leila Billing, 11 January 2021
• Gender Equality NGOs, Stop Patronizing Us. An African Woman’s Perspective, Mwikali Mutune, 4 December 2020
• How Women of Colour Are Fighting to ‘Decolonise’ Global Aid, Vice, 26 Nov 2020
• We Need to Start Talking about Race, Power, and Privilege in the Education in Emergencies Sector, Jessica Oddy, 16 November 2020
• Exclusive: Half aid workers report racism at work in past year - poll, Reuters, 30 October 2020
• A hard look in the mirror: reflecting on racism and whiteness in the development sector, Kiza Magendane and Yannicke Goris, 24 September 2020
• How (and why) to compensate people of colour for their emotional labour, AidWorks, 21 September 2020
• Closing the race gap in philanthropy demands radical candour, Kennedy Odede, 7 September 2020
• Bearing witness inside MSF, Arnab Majumdar, 18 August 2020
• I've seen first-hand the toxic racism in international women's rights groups, Lori Adelman, 17 August 2020
• The South matters -- for the South, Themrise Khan, 2 August 2020
• Black Lives Matter: The emotional toll of speaking up, Cynthia Keza Birikundavyi, 21 July 2020
• “Our African colleagues”: On the limits of diversity in development, by Faten Aggad, 21 July 2020
• Can a chief executive ‘apologise’ for racism and stay? by Angela Bruce Raeburn, 16 July 2020
• Discrimination and prejudice in development, by Célestin Monga, 15 July 2020
• Decolonising aid, again, by Paul Currion, 13 July 2020
• Who Speaks for the Global South Recipients of Aid?, by Themrise Khan, 7 July 2020
• It's time the UN faced up to its treatment of black people like me, by Rosebell Kagumire, 6 July 2020
• Why global development needs Black activism, by Natalie Lartey, IIED, 25 June 2020
• White Supremacy In Global Health, by Anu Kumar, 18 June 2020
• A World in Which Many Worlds Fit by Aarathi Krishnan & Rahul Chandran in Global Dashboard, 16 June 2020
• Doing good and being racist, by Corinne Gray in The New Humanitarian, 15 Jun 2020
• The aid sector must do more to tackle its white supremacy problem, by Anonymous in The Guardian UK, 15 June 2020
• The hustle — white saviors and hashtag activism, by Angela Bruce-Raeburn in Devex, 12 June 2020
• Aid workers: It’s time to practise what you preach, by Thandie Mwape Villadsen in The New Humanitarian, 8 June 2020
• White Privilege: Overcoming Denial, Silence and Shame by Gemma Houldey, 8 June 2020
• Being Black Working In a White Male-dominated Aid Industry, by Rosebell Kagumire in African Feminism, 8 June 2020
• Is racism part of our reluctance to localise humanitarian action? by Hugo Slim, 5 Jun 2020
• Have nonprofits and philanthropy become the “white moderate” that Dr. King warned us about?, by Vu Le, 1 June 2020
• How White People Conquered the Non-Profit Industry (And why they won’t be going anywhere, anytime soon), by Anastasia Reesa Tomkin, 28 April 2020
• An open letter to International NGOs who are looking to ‘localise’ their operations, OpenDemocracy (be sure to check out the signatories in the comments), 8 Mar 2020
• Not fit for this future, by Aarathi Krishnan, 6 April 2020
• Our Silenced Voices: What we lose while working with international “humanitarian” organizations, by Ayah Al-Oballi, 5 January 2020
• The tyranny of “technical expertise”, by Arbie Baguios, 20 December 2019
• Philanthropists Bench Women of Color, the M.V.P.s of Social Change, by Vanessa Daniel, 19 November 2019
• White optimism and the erasures of racism in global development, by Dr. Arathi Sriprakash, 7 November 2019
• Decentring the white gaze of development, by Robtel Neajai Pailey, 1 October 2019
• 'Development' is colonialism in disguise, Arturo Escobar, Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta, 9 September 2019
• The Politics of Funding and Funders: My Personal Experience, Fungai Machirori, 31 July 2019
• Degan Ali on the systemic racism impacting humanitarian responses, Q&A in Devex, 20 June 2019
• The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards, by Aysa Gray, 4 June 2019
• We need to talk about racism — in the development sector, by George Jones, 6 March 2019
• The dangers of NGO-isation of women’s rights in Africa, Hala Al-Karib, in Al-Jazeera, 13 December 2018
• We need to talk about racism in the aid sector, by Tindyebwa Agaba & Anonymous in Open Democracy, 7 December 2018
• De-colonising development is both personal and political, by Grace Labeodan, 18 July 2018
• The cost of diversity without inclusion, by Rosebell Kagumire, 8 June 2018
• The encounter, by Rajasvini Bhansali, 18 May 2018
• What now? Beyond the #OxfamScandal, by Marie-Rose Romain Murphy, 26 Feb 2018
• When the fox guards the hen house, by Angela Bruce-Raeburn, 16 February 2018
• Reparations as Philanthropy: Radically Rethinking « Giving » in Africa, Uzodinma Iweala, 11 November 2017
• Why grassroots activists should resist being ‘professionalised’ into an NGO, by Sunil Babu Pant, in The Guardian UK, 7 July 2017
• 'International development' is a loaded term. It's time for a rethink, Jennifer Lentfer, in The Guardian UK 3 May 2017
• Wrestling with my white fragility, by Jennifer Lentfer, Open Democracy, 15 Dec 2016
• The White-Savior Industrial Complex, by Teju Cole, 21 March 2012
• The elephant hasn’t left the room: Racism, power & international aid, by Sasha Rabsey, 17 January 2012
• “Development aid and racism” by Jacob Holdt - an essay from 1981(!)

Give a listen

• Event Recordings/Summaries: Decolonising Humanitarian Action, Racism & White Privilege in Humanitarian Aid, Women In Dev Presents: Donors and Movements, Decolonising Aid: (Part1) Humanitarian ‘neutrality’ and ‘White Supremacy, The West’s humanitarian reckoning, How to be Anti-Racist in Aid, How May We Help You? A Conversation on Consent in Global Development
• Embodying Change: Cultivating Caring and Compassionate Organisations: A podcast on cultivating care and compassion in aid and development, CHS Alliance
• Rethinking Development Podcast: Episodes address ethics, systemic challenges, experiences of power dyanamics, discrimination, microaggresions, accountability, etc.
• Tiny Spark podcast: What Can We Do about the White Savior Complex? Episode on why racist and colonial structures persist in the sector and how they can be fought.
• Power in the Pandemic Podcast: Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey and Maria Faciolince talk racism and development
• Change Making Women and The Feminist Leadership Project
• Philanthropissed 
• The Ethical Rainmaker
• Seeing White

Other sector-specific reading lists

• Resources on addressing racism in development and decolonizing development practice, by Alyssa Bovell: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FvLUtgQWMroa50VILhoq_brBxw56MurbKrBgLTCS9Q/mobilebasic?urp=gmail_link
• #PowerShifts Resources: Anti-Racism in Development and Aid, Maria Faciolince, From Poverty to Power, Oxfam
• 50 Shades of Aid Resource pack: Educate yourself on racism and #BlackLivesMatter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ctkTGrcviCYHwDWxY-0m6GXOpW_Xh7f9spDJ8uYViJM/edit?usp=sharing 
• Racism in the aid industry and international development-a curated collection, by Tobias Denskus: https://aidnography.blogspot.com/2020/06/racism-aid-industry-development-curated-collection.html 
• Compiled resources on communicating social change, by Jennifer Lentfer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1egKCiD3lH_yHiKDbnTBqDCOoFKXRPOdYCXlGeJPB-3A/edit?usp=sharing