Common use of Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Multicultural Awareness Clause in Contracts

Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Multicultural Awareness. The Congregation and the Minister affirm our mutual commitment to address the systemic prejudices and biases found within all parts of society by, among other things, working to ensure that the Minister(s), members of the Congregation, and staff are trained to understand, welcome and better serve a multiracial, multiethnic, increasingly diverse community and enhance the ability of each individual to live our values of justice, equity, and interdependence. The Board and Minister(s) are committed to an ongoing process to address the ways systems of oppression within and beyond our Congregation are perpetuated and agree to collaborate on the development of a joint process of reflection and growth to ensure progress. This includes, but is not limited to, the ways in which the characteristics of dominant cultures live in our practices, systems procedures, and our very lives.5 When congregations call ministers who themselves hold historically or currently marginalized

Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Multicultural Awareness. The Congregation and the Minister affirm our mutual commitment to address the systemic prejudices and biases found within all parts of society by, among other things, working to ensure that the Minister(s), members of the Congregation, and staff are trained to understand, welcome and better serve a multiracial, multiethnic, increasingly diverse community and enhance the ability of each individual to live our values of justice, equity, and interdependence. The Board and Minister(s) are committed to an ongoing process to address the ways systems of oppression within and beyond our Congregation are perpetuated and agree to collaborate on the development of a joint process of reflection and growth to ensure progress. This includes, but is not limited to, the ways in which the characteristics of dominant cultures live in our practices, systems procedures, and our very lives.5 lives.4 When congregations call ministers who themselves hold historically or currently marginalizedor

Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Multicultural Awareness. The Congregation and the Minister affirm our mutual commitment to address the systemic prejudices and biases found within all parts of society by, among other things, working to ensure that the Minister(s), members of the Congregation, and staff are trained to understand, welcome and better serve a multiracial, multiethnic, increasingly diverse community and enhance the ability of each individual to live our values of justice, equity, and interdependence. The Board and Minister(s) are committed to an ongoing process to address the ways systems of oppression within and beyond our Congregation are perpetuated and agree to collaborate on the development of a joint process of reflection and growth to ensure progress. This includes, but is not limited to, the ways in which the characteristics of dominant cultures live in our practices, systems procedures, and our very lives.5 lives.4 When congregations call ministers who themselves hold historically or currently marginalized

Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Multicultural Awareness. The Congregation and the Minister affirm our mutual commitment to address the systemic prejudices and biases found within all parts of society by, among other things, working to ensure that the Minister(s), members of the Congregation, and staff are trained to understand, welcome and better serve a multiracial, multiethnic, increasingly diverse community and enhance the ability of each individual to live our values of justice, equity, and interdependence. The Board and Minister(s) are committed to an ongoing process to address the ways systems of oppression within and beyond our Congregation are perpetuated and agree to collaborate on the development of a joint process of reflection and growth to ensure progress. This includes, but is not limited to, the ways in which the characteristics of dominant cultures live in our practices, systems procedures, and our very lives.5 When congregations call ministers who themselves hold historically or currently marginalizedmarginalized identities, the congregation understands that the minister must be free to determine the extent to which they are called to lead in dismantling injustices in which the minister holds a target identity.6