Volunteering & Community Engagement in Black Communities (Organizations)

Does your organization support Black Community members in any way?

Please let us know how you engage with them and meet their need for community involvement. Your responses and the information you provide will help Volunteer Toronto understand your challenges with working in the community and help us find ways to support you better with your community engagement work.

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* 1. My organization is (choose all that apply):

Black- led (i.e. mandated to serve Black community, identity at the centre of services/programs, with Black leadership at all levels (i.e. staff, executive, governance))

Black focused (i.e. delivers culturally responsive programming/services, organizational leadership includes leaders that identify as Black, and regularly collaborates with Black-led organizations)

Black-serving (i.e. supports causes that positively impact Black communities, responds to communities’ unique cultural identities, history and needs, and has Black beneficiaries (i.e. service users))

a Black collaborative/network

An organization with limited affiliation to the Black communities (e.g., serving other communities that include members of the black community)

A cultural organization linked to a specific black ethnic origin

None of the above

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* 2. Please select the sub-sectors that best represents your organization's work:

Arts & Culture

Black Rights & Services

Child & Family Services

Civic & Political Engagement

Disabilities & Accessibility

Education & Literacy

Emergencies & Disasters

Food Security

Healthcare, Health Promotion & Mental Health

Housing and Homelessness

Human Rights, Equity & Advocacy

Information & Referral

Religious Institutions

Seniors & Long Term Care

Sports & Recreation

Youth-Led

Other (please specify)

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* 3. On my organization's staff team:

Less than 25% identify as Black

About 50% identify as Black

More than 50% identify as Black

All the staff identify as Black

None of our staff identify as Black

There are no staff in our organization

We do not track this information at all

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* 4. Black community members in my organization are: (Choose all that apply)

Clients

Volunteers

Clients and volunteers

Board members

Staff