10/11/2021
We have officially launched!
After months of preparation, we were delighted to welcome the first cohort of the Impetus Leadership Academy (ILA) to our central London offices for the programme’s kick off session.
Read our blogWe believe that embedding racial diversity in every aspect of our work; recruitment, staff development, due diligence, funding decisions, our non-financial support, governance structures and more, will make us a better, smarter organisation, truly able to implement our mission.
In August 2020 we started a Race Equity Taskforce internally to look at every aspect of our organisation and our work from a race equity lens, and identify recommendations for improvement. Those recommendations were unanimously approved by our Board in March 2020.
We are now starting the challenging task of implementing the recommendations well; we're ready for an exciting but also challenging journey of learning, discovery, missteps and joy ahead.
We have begun work on embedding racial diversity into all aspects of our work. Though each change has a corresponding target, we are mindful that targets are not the priority. They are a guide to help us to be a better organisation.
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We are acutely conscious that as a youth charity focused on socio-economic disadvantage, social mobility must be a golden thread running through all our diversity work. We have lots to learn, test, fail and build better in this area.
August 2020 |
We set up a cross-organisation Race Equity Taskforce to critically assess our organisation and our work from a race equity lens and develop recommendations for improvement. |
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August 2020 - February 2021 |
While our Race Equity Taskforce researched and considered targets concerning our organisation, work and our mission, they also held conversations with our wider group of stakeholders (including charity partners, funders, and other partners), all staff and our Board of Trustees. |
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February 2021 |
The Race Equity Taskforce presented their findings and recommendations to staff and captured reflections and comments. |
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March 2021 |
Our Board of Trustees approved the targets recommended by the Race Equity Taskforce, agreeing that making racial diversity a part of how we work is fundamental to effectively delivering our mission. |
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July 2021 |
Launch of the Impetus Leadership Academy - in partnership with Bank of America we launched a 12 month programme offering professional and leadership opportunities to emerging leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds working in the UK youth sector. |
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Q3 & Q4 2021 |
Testing of new ways to increase the diversity of organisations we consider for investment; with particular attention paid to racial diversity. Our priority funding areas for 2021 were apprenticeships, social and emotional resilience and higher education. |
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Autumn 2021 onwards |
We recognise that understanding and implementing race equity in our organisation is an ongoing journey. Staff and Board training, ongoing difficult conversations, learning from others and remaining open to challenge will continue to be part of this process. |
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February 2022 - March 2022 |
We launched our Connect Fund. Together with The Centerbridge Foundation, Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy, The Towerbrook Foundation, Sainsbury's and Bain & Company, we’re working to close the employment gap faced by young people from ethnic minority backgrounds, particularly black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani young people, in the UK. As part of this work, we launched an open grant round focused on youth employment and race equity. We are looking for organisations who help young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK get into employment. |
We can’t do this work alone! We welcome your partnership, your advice, your challenge and your questions on our ambitions. Please email info@impetus.org.uk or reach out to us on Twitter @ImpetusPEF.
10/11/2021
After months of preparation, we were delighted to welcome the first cohort of the Impetus Leadership Academy (ILA) to our central London offices for the programme’s kick off session.
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Sherine Mahmoud, Senior Investment Director at Impetus, on why the Impetus Leadership Academy is such an important, and timely, initiative.
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The Impetus Leadership Academy combines management training, personal development and corporate mentorship from Bank of America staff to accelerate professional development of emerging charity leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds
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