Free diagnostic tool

Is your equity commitment written down, or built in?

Most equity commitments live in a strategic plan or a public statement. Few live in the budget, the governance structure, or what happens when someone inside the organization disagrees. This free self-assessment shows you which one is true for your organization in about ten minutes.

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Built from the same framework behind our Symbolic-to-Structural Assessment.

Why this exists

Statements are not strategy

We measure commitments by what they redesign, not by what they say. A statement costs nothing to publish and nothing to walk back. A structural change, in governance, in the budget, in who holds authority when priorities conflict, is much harder to reverse. That difference is the whole test.

This tool walks you through that test across four places commitment either shows up or doesn't. Score yourself honestly and you will know, before a funder or a board member asks, where your organization actually stands.

Governance
Who has real authority over the commitment, and can they act on it
Incentives
What gets rewarded, measured, or promoted because of it
Budget
Whether the commitment shows up as a line item or only as language
Protection for dissent
What happens to someone who raises a hard question about it

The four dimensions the tool scores

What's inside

A short, honest audit you run yourself

A scored self-assessment

Rate your organization across the four dimensions using a simple, structured worksheet. No outside facilitation required.

A one-page summary

See your overall pattern at a glance: a summary built for a board packet or a leadership conversation, not a filing cabinet.

Redesign starting points

For every dimension where you score low, a short list of the kind of structural change that would actually move it.

Who this is for

Built for the people who have to answer for the commitment

  • Executive directors and boards about to make, renew, or defend an equity commitment
  • Program and strategy staff who keep hearing "we value equity" without seeing it in the budget
  • Foundation and funder staff assessing whether a grantee's or applicant's commitment is structural or symbolic

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Want the deeper version, done with your team?

The free tool tells you where you stand. The Symbolic-to-Structural Assessment is the scored audit we run with your leadership and board, with redesign priorities built for your actual governance and budget.