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Resources for Supporting a Just Culture in Your Organization
Many types of organizations are experimenting with new ways of supporting the health and wellbeing of staff, board, volunteers, and partners. Below is a list of resources, toolkits, and examples to assist those seeking to implement Just Culture practices within their own organization.
The online resources listed below do not account for the most important ways movement leaders share information about Just Culture practices: informal, peer-to-peer knowledge exchange.
If there are case studies, stories, or other resources to lift up the ideas and models that are practiced in frontline and place-based community collaborations, please let us know via: buildingajustculture@gmail.com.

Resources
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Internal Culture Resources
- 8 Signs Of A Toxic Work Culture | The NonProfit Times
- How Leaders Can Strengthen Their Organizational Culture | Stanford Social Innovation Review
- What is Organizational Culture? | Gotham Culture
- Internal Strengthening for External Impact | Planet Indonesia
Anti-Harassment, Anti-Discrimination, and Anti-Violence Resources
- Addressing Harm, Accountability and Healing | Critical Resistance
- Anti-violence and Transformative Justice Resources | Critical Resistance
- Best Practices in Creating Workplace Harassment Policies | Walsworth
- Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others | Pepperdine Online
- Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation and Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence | Creative Interventions
- Ten Ways to Prevent Sex Discrimination in the Workplace | Jaburg Wilk
- Safeguarding Initiative | FADICA
Philanthropic Resources
- Trust-Based Philanthropy
- Power Moves Assessment | National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
- Power Moves Assessment Results | Deaconess Foundation
- Healing Justice Institute | Neighborhood Funders Group and Funders For Justice
- Cultivating the Grassroots Report | National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
- Combatting Burnout in Nonprofit Leaders | Stanford Social Innovation Review
- New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support | Center for Effective Philanthropy
Staff Management and Support Resources
- Best Practices in Flexible Working Hours | Talent Intelligence
- Keep Nonprofit Employee Performance Evaluations from Going Wrong | MissionBox
- Best Practices for Nonprofit Staff Development | MissionBox
- Workplace Safety: Basics for Nonprofits | MissionBox
- Combating Employee and Volunteer Burnout | VolunteerHub
- Should the Nonprofit Sector Pay Interns? | Capterra
- Does Your Nonprofit Website Need a Privacy Policy? | Wild Apricot
- Five “Best Practices” for Employer Retirement Plans | 401k Help Center
Research and Data: Diversity
- Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector | Ofronama Biu
- The State of Diversity in Nonprofit and Foundation Leadership | Battalia Winston
- The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations | Dorceta E. Taylor, Ph.D
Research and Data: Employer Practices
- Best Practices in Health Care: Employer Survey Report | Willis Towers Watson
- Employee Retention and Acquisition in an Uncertain Economy | Payscale
- Key Takeaways From the 2018 Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey | Health Designs
- Engaging the Nonprofit Workforce | Opportunity Knocks
- Predictive Indicators of Job Burnout in Nonprofit Organizations | Semantic Scholar
- Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission