for organizations

CUSTOMIZED FACILITATION & TRAINING

An experienced team of BRJA trainers offers specialized consulting & anti-racist strategy for business, educational, religious, non-profit, & government institutions. We provide customized services according to outcomes developed between those entities & the BRJA training team.

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE for RACIAL JUSTICE

BRJA acknowledges that there are different kinds of change and has adapted the following change definitions for a social justice context. BRJA works with organizations focused on each of the three types of change, with an emphasis on helping organizations to create pathways in their work to implement transformational change.

Transactional Change: Transactional changes involve meeting individual, immediate needs. They do not address root causes or change systems.

Transitional Change: Transitional changes are the types of change where changes are made to existing organizational structures, systems, policies and/or procedures. Transitional change, if sustained, can lead to transformational change.

Transformational Change: Transformational change is permanent change that impacts systems and structures and resolves root causes.

THOUGHT PARTNERSHIP

Thought-partnership is a separate body of work that we offer, with an understanding of your needs, as well as your budget limitations, to ensure that the representation and framing of an RFP is crafted in a way that aligns with reasonable, clear, and obtainable desired outcomes. We offer thought-partnership as a service, understanding that many clients will craft a proposal “not knowing what they don’t know” instead of from a strength position of having talked through not only want they want, but more importantly what they need and what they can get.

ALL OUR SPECIALIZED STRATEGIES FOCUS ON:

1. Assessing to what extent existing policies & procedures are effective or ineffective in promoting & establishing racial equity.
2. Initiating & supporting the steps required to create an organizational climate in which everyone can expect equity in environment, opportunities & experience.
3. Developing skills for individuals within the organization to initiate & continue conversation & action about race.
4. Ensuring organizational commitment to institutional changes for racial equity.
5. Building the capacity of organizations to work toward achieving racial equity.

Client Reviews

"After an in-depth review (racial equity assessment)... BRJA provided us with a comprehensive report on the findings of the assessment. This comprehensive report is being used as the framework on which to build equity into our policies, programs and processes. The work [BRJA has] done with Humanim has been transformative for our organization..."

Humanim

"In all of their work with us, the BRJA consultants provide a good mix of challenge and support. BRJA facilitators . . . exhibited their strengths in uncovering problems, building authentic community, and tackling tough topics in a positive manner. [We] have found the BRJA consultants to be equally adept at looking at our campus issues from a 30,000-foot perspective, as well as attending to the myriad of details that go into managing and advancing a complex project..."

Goucher College

"Our work with BRJA has deepened how we look at racial equity at all levels of Baltimore Clayworks. It has reminded me, as a leader, how much more work there is to do. In the process of looking at ourselves, we can see parallels to other larger systems and structures and as we find ways to make progress in our organizations, can also start to imagine what larger change could look like."

Baltimore Clayworks

"For more than six years, BRJA worked with [our] team to provide training and coaching as we developed and presented anti-racism events for the synod (congregations, leadership groups, organizations). The BRJA staff members... were caring and exemplary instructors. Through their leadership, the team grew in its expertise as facilitators for discussion regarding the effects of racism and produced contextual materials for use within our synod..."

Evangelical Lutheran Church of America