RESOURCE LIST FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Below you’ll find a non-exhaustive compilation of racial services, funding information, and ways to join your peer organizations in the fight for social justice in the arts. Check back for updates as we continue this work-in-progress, and please contact info@advisoryarts.com with any suggested additions. 

Training & Consulting Services

• DEI Arts Consulting

• National Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant Sourcebook

• Black-Owned DEI Companies & Consultants Currently Accepting New Corporate Clients 

• Enrich Chicago

• Orchestrate Inclusion

• Be the Change Consulting

• Race Forward 

• Final Bow for Yellowface

• artEquity

• Center for Nonprofit Excellence

• RAINN

News & Artifacts from the Arts

• New England Anti-Racism Policy Collection

• Ballet Black’s Equality Resources

• Case Studies in Museum Diversity

• For Diversity Leaders in the Arts, Getting Hired Is Just the First Step

• For These Classical Musicians, It’s Always Been About Racial Equity

Grant-Making Organizations 

• Grantmakers in the Arts

• Mellon Foundation

• National Endowment for the Arts

National & International Alliances, Movements and Coalitions

Here we include more recently formed alliances, but there are many genre-specific, regional or cultural-specific advocacy groups.  

Cross-Arts

• Arts Administrators of Color

• Women of Color in the Arts

• Asian Arts Initiative

• National Association of Latino Arts and Culture

• Coalition for African-Americans in the Arts

• Center for Artistic Activism

• Cultural New Deal

Theater

• We See You White American Theatre

• Black Theatre United

Ballet & Opera

• The Black Iris Project

Black Opera Alliance

Museums

• Change the Museum Instagram Account

• #ForTheCulture signed letter 

Other Research

• Mapping our Progress Towards Cultural Equity (Americans for the Arts)

• Strengthening Cultural Diversity (European Commission) 

• Two Pioneering Diversity Studies (League of American Orchestras) 

Other Resource Pages

• Bias-Free Language (American Psychological Association)

• Welcoming Guidelines for Museums (LGBTQ Alliance and AAM)

• Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture (Equity in the Center)

• How to Recruit Diverse Talent (Arts Council England)

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources (Opera America)

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources (League of American Orchestras)

• Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion Resources (American Alliance of Museums)

• Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative (Theater Communication Group) 

• Diversity Resources (Arts Council England)