Diversity – refers to the variety of differences among people, encompassing race, gender, age, experiences, talents, skills, and opinions.
Impact - we measure impact by reviewing the outcomes of a project. For example, what has improved as a result of funding, how has someone developed, has someone progressed in their career, has an organisation grown or received additional funds as a result of the project.
Intersectionality and/or specificity – considers how people’s identities and social experiences, such as race, class, gender interconnect. Having an intersectional approach enables people to consider other’s varying experiences and their impact.
Lived experience - the knowledge and understanding gained through something someone has directly gone through and is based on their own perspective, personal identities and history.
Racial Equality - equality focuses on equal treatment and rights for all individuals regardless of race.
Racial Equity - addresses systemic factors that contribute to disparities and striving to ensure fairness and justice for all groups. Achieving equity may require different strategies for different communities.
Racial justice - a vision and transformation of society to eliminate racial hierarchies and advance collective liberation, where Black and Global Majority people have the dignity, resources, power and self-determination to fully thrive.
Systemic Racism - systemic, institutional, and structural racism are forms of institutional discrimination that are deeply embedded in and throughout systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, practices, and established beliefs and attitudes that result in widespread unfair spread unfair and harmful treatment of people as a result of their race or ethnicity.