Building Your DEI Team

• Comprehensive & Customizable DEI Mission Statement
• Building a Diversity & Inclusion Program from Scratch
• Empowering Diversity is More Than Just Checking Boxes
• How to Jump Start a Diversity and Inclusion Initiative in the Workplace
• History, Roots, and Reasons for Diversity Management
• 3 Keys for Successful D&I Initiatives  by Qualigence International
• Building Your DEI Program – Employee Resource Groups Activate Inclusion View the latest article from Harland Clarke

• Teach Children to Save - Teach Children to Save Day is April 22. Thank you to all of our participating banks: Chelsea State Bank, Honor Bank, mBank, Mercantile Bank, Range Bank, and TCF National Bank.
• Financial Literacy - Recognize the industry’s hard work in financial literacy education and what member banks provide their customers and communities.
• What you need to know about the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act (FEPA)
• Bank On
• Financial Inclusion Webinar- Help reduce the number of unbanked and underbanked people in the country.
• ABA and NBA Strategic Partnership
• National Bankers Association (NBA) - The Voice of Minority Banking since 1927

• BankTalentHQ - MBASC Endorsed Partner BankTalentHQ utilizes the Circa network which focuses on diverse hiring pools sharing your posts with over 15,000 organizations.
• Women in Banking- MBA's annual conference for women at any level in banking.
• The Management of Workplace Diversity
• These courses from the ABA Frontline Compliance Training catalog help banks foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• Minbanc Foundation -Offers a unique and essential support system to banks designated as "minority-owned" by the banking regulatory agencies.

DE&I Education and Conversation

• Recipe for Change - Come together and celebrate global Asian and Pacific Islander culture and discuss the recent and historic acts of violence against the API community
• What & When is Pride Month - History, culture, contributions
• Significance of the 1969 Stonewall Riots - A History Channel overview
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep. 9 - A Conversation with the Police

• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• GLAAD - GLAAD works through entertainment, news, and digital media to share stories from the LGBTQ community that accelerate acceptance.
• Pronouns? - Learn about personal pronouns and why they matter.
• 70 Better Get to Know You Questions - Promote inclusion by getting to know one another personally.
• Stop Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Hate - Stand united against racism. Hate against Asian American Pacific Islander communities has risen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community - The Black Population is 20% more likely to face mental illness
• Top 5 Trans Ally Principles - While it is hard to distill all the ways to be a trans* positive and affirming ally down into 5 principles, Meg Bolger and Perry Cohen did their best to create something useful, easily-digestible, and single sided.
• Privilege for Sale - An activity that gets groups talking about and examining privilege
• Privilege Walk - This particular walk is designed with questions spanning many different areas of marginalization, because the goal of this walk is to understand intersectionality. 
• 10 Things Adults on the Autism Spectrum Wish You Knew - Autism Speaks  asked adults on the autism spectrum what they want others to know about them. Here are some of their answers: