Good Morning all! Please share your name, organization name and community.

Lizzie Bebber, United Ministries in Greenville

Amanda Lawrence, Trident United Way

Good morning! Laryn Weaver Greenville Area Parkinson Society

Belle Zeigler, Eastern Carolina Community Foundation

Sharonda Eagle: Lighthouse Ministries

Dawn Dowden, Homes of Hope

Leigh Thomson, Dorchester Seniors

Beth De Santis, Fact Forward

Laura Allen, Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Good morning to all!

Mary Butz, Tri-County Cradle to Career

Jeffrey Fleming, Palmetto Project

Lesa Kastler The Community Foundation of Greenville Board member

Sherry Gilliam, Charleston County First Steps

Ashley Whitt, Spartanburg County Foundation

Ann Warner, WREN and TogetherSC board member. Good morning!

Jeff McCormack - SC Physicians Care Charity

Good morning! Tarsha Wheaton, Charleston County First Steps

Crystal Campbell, Executive Director Dorchester First Steps

Samantha Zimmerschied, The Advanced Institute for Development and Learning, Greenville

Dodi Hodges, Palmetto Literacy Council, Horry County

Helen Wolfe, Coastal Community Foundation

Kathy 'kp' Papadimitriou, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston, SC, Inc.

Kathy Quinones, Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center

Megan Reilly, Director of Development, Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services

Leslie Stroud-Romero, Grant Writer

Caroline Byrd, Trident United Way, Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester Counties

Lowndes Macdonald - The Nature Conservancy

Paige Knowlson- Pattison's Academy

Good morning, Jane Jasien, St. Christopher's Children

Dan Daniel, Charleston Parks Conservancy

Good Morning! Phyllis Martin, Tri County Cradle to Career Collaborative

Steven Burritt, MADD SC & NC

Thankful Thursday greetings from the South Carolina Community Health Worker Association -Donna Mack

Good morning Everyone - we are the catalyst that will help move our communities, state and nation to a better place. Blessings and much love. Mamie Nicholson, The Self Family Foundation

Good morning everyone - Kimberly Martinez-Ward Compass of Carolina

Barbie Schreiner, Director of Development, Lowcountry Local First - Charleston

Good Morning - Ame Holcombe, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Ericka Wooten, Sisters of Charity Foundation of SC

Morning, y'all! Catherine Schumacher, Public Education Partners Greenville County.

Good morning! Kelley Ezell, Upstate Family Resource Center Spartanburg

Good Morning everyone! Cindy Hay Johnson Camp Happy Days

Sara Massey, Syn-Mass LLC, Charleston, SC AmeriCorps Commission

Paige Stephenson, United Way of the Piedmont

Mary Crowther-Williams, Youth Enrichment Services in Boston, MA

Kecia Greenho-Reading Partners

Good Morning, Peg Lahmeyer, The ARK of SC in Summerville. The Summerville Police Dept. has sr=tarted "The Dignity Project" to address relationships in the community with all people.

Alys Campaigne, Engage Strategies, Charleston, SC

Mindy Sturm- City of Charleston, MOCYF

Jennifer DeWitt - Lowcountry Food Bank

Tatjana Beylotte, Charleston Jazz

Erin Ulmer - Camp Rise Above in Charleston

Hello All!

Amanda Cote, Charleston Parks Conservancy

Allison Safford, Hollingsworth Funds, Greenville

Elmire Raven, Board Member of ECCO and Chair of Increasing Hope

Samantha Scott-Charleston Parks Conservancy

Liz Evans, St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic

Karen Franklin, Clemson University

Holly Raines- St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic in Spartanburg

Diane Flanagan - Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina

Terri Lottchea, The Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation

Kara Davis Illumination Research & Analysis, LLC

Good morning! I’m Lizz Biswell (she/her) with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston

Tannesha Clements - Lydia's Bowels of Mercy Home, Inc. , Johnsonville, SC

Good morning all. Luanne Rodgers, Windwood Family Services in Charleston. Anita, thank you for speaking to us today.

Stacey Denaux, One80 Place

Paul DeMarco, HopeHealth at Francis Marion University

Erin Hardwick Pate, Butler Conservation Fund and board member of Children’s Trust of SC and Art Museum of MB

Annette Nielsen, Charleston Commission on Disability Issues

Kate Morrow, Children’s Cancer Partners

Erin Jones, Waves 4 Womem

Addresses placed on resumes can also cause one to discriminate

It does. It happened to me when I lost my first child at 8 months due to the fact the doctor did not listen to me when I came in the day before in severe pain. She dismissed me.

Some resumes are reviewed by artificial intelligence at some large firms which also can show bias.

Don't get me started with Health care disparities. I have lived through 4 instances of bias and not being heard or beliefs that Black folk don't feel pain etc. This is real and it effects how I now do my health care.

Thank you, Anita, for the bias toward action. REI training is simply foundational to the work and leadership of TCCC.

I'm so very sorry to hear that Donna, Crystal and others - *hugs*

There are so many books to read but one for the workplace to help identify one's bias is The Memo by Minda Harts

A great DEI trainer for your workplace is Nika White

https://www.nikawhite.com/

To the funders on the call: Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Fundinghttps://ssir.org/articles/entry/overcoming_the_racial_bias_in_philanthropic_funding

For environmental and arts organizations I would tell them to learn about environmental racism (Flint water crisis) as well as racism seen in the arts.

Or if you can’t show up at the pond able to swim. (Health and wellness/mental and physical)

what are some groundwater issues that some of you have discovered in your orgs

https://racetolead.org/women-of-color/ ; https://racetolead.org/

We also need to create equitable systems so others can own the pond. And yet our educational system is unequal, particularly in funding and tax revenues in communities with lower socioeconomics.

Our senior leadership team is reading Jennifer's book Biased together to help discussions in our SLT meetings.

White Fragility was the most impactful for me

Courage is so important!

We have been meeting and discussing this since last year. Each person on staff leads a discussion each month.

Great point! You have also taken a strong stand on adopting hate crime legislation in our state and I would love to hear more about what other policies and systems you think need to change in SC to improve racial equity.

Making contributions to candidates and parties who will forward policies that are helpful to people is also a useful tool.

Many members of our team are getting ready to read “So You Want To Talk About Race” by Igeoma Oluo.

Thank you so much Anita, TogetherSC, this has been great!

Thank you guys!

Thank you so much, Anita and Madeleine!

Thank you, TogetherSC and thank you, Anita.

Thank you.

Thank You

Thank you Anita and Together SC!