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These resources offer legal and ethical strategies for creating, managing, and supporting diversity within your organization. Though not nonprofit-specific, the advice on these sites may help you understand and resolve the diversity-related issues facing your organization.

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Idealist's Support for Employees will help you locate resources that may help clarify the issues that individuals face in the workplace as well as a support network that exists to promote workers' career development.

The Society for Human Resources Management contains a useful toolkit that can help you understand and evaluate the diversity situation within your organization.

The Southern Poverty Law Center offers free diagnostic tools that you can administer to yourself or offer to your staff. The tools are primarily designed to help you recognize the different ways bias might be manifesting itself in your workplace.

HR LAW info provides legal information on workplace issues such as discrimination, harassment and immigration policy. While HR LAW info can help employers better understand their legal obligations to employees, it shouldn't be used as substitute for professional legal advice.

The Independent Living Institute promotes the opportunities of persons with disabilities to gain more personal and political power, self-determination, full participation, and equality through information, training materials, consultancy, and technical assistance.

The Diversity Initiative provides technical assistance and funding to Boston area nonprofit human services and cultural organizations committed to creating greater racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity within their staff and boards.

The DiversityCanada Foundation's mission is to create, facilitate, and promote opportunities for multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, differently-abled, and diverse groups and individuals to participate in the economic, social, and cultural life of Canada and elsewhere.