We’re committed to providing tools and resources to help our Champions, staff, leadership and the community advance their knowledge and practice of Allyship. Check out the following resources that can help with advancing the work of anti-oppression and anti-racism.
Project
Principles in Action
Allyship tools & resources
24 February 2022
Podcast: Allyship
This episode of Let's Talk Poverty discusses how Enough for All principles like shared leadership, reducing racism and discrimination and dignity for all relate to allyship. Providing ideas about what active allyship looks like, and how it may require people to sit in discomfort and choose not to avoid the work out of fear of making mistakes. It also examines how individuals and organizations can use their privilege to leverage.
Lived experience guides the E4A strategy
Poverty Talks! is an advisory group, offering insight into poverty reduction from a lived experience of poverty perspective.
The Indigenous Advisory Committee provides guidance to meaningfully address the unique issues facing Calgary’s Indigenous peoples.
Resources
- The alliedFutures toolkit provides you with resources and reflections throughout the 5-step journey: Sitting in Truth, Allyship, Accomplice, Decolonization and Indigenization and Reconciliation.
- Calgary Anti-Racism Education publishes resources for anti-racism facilitators and self-guided learners. Also, check out the Anti-Racism Resource Kit.
- Check out these great videos: Understanding privilege. Realizing your power, Let’s get on the same page about allyship, 5 Tips For Being An Ally and Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
- Working on allyship in your organization? The Community Wise Resource Centre offers resources for Anti-Racist Organizational Change (AROC) and specifically, Resources & Tools for Nonprofits.
- The Calgary Indigenous Human Rights Circle has resources to put anti-racism into practice. Also check out their final report on Combatting Discrimination & Racism Against Indigenous Peoples in Calgary.
- Wondering how systems change can happen? Check out The Relational Work of Systems Change from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- To help get you started on your reconciliation journey, reference Engaging with Elders: A Co-created Story and take a look at the Calgary Foundation's Indigenous Ally Toolkit.
- The Calgary Aboriginal Urban Affairs Committee developed the White Goose Flying Report, a local adaptation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report.
- Listen to the podcast Understanding the impact of racism, colonialism, and poverty on Canada’s criminal justice system and check out The Micropedia of Microaggressions to start browsing microaggressions and their impact.
- Check out Egale Canada's Tips on how to practice 2SLGBTQI Allyship.
- Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson course from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores the different histories and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples living in Canada.
Indigenous Strategy
The Enough for All strategy relies on principles, including shared leadership, dignity for all, mobilizing awareness and empathy of inter-generational trauma, reducing racism and discrimination, and implementing the 94 calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.