Nonprofit boards have traditionally had a difficult time achieving inclusivity. Even when boards appoint a member, of a previously not represented group, it is a challenge to welcome and integrate him or her into the workings of the group. Here are 12 other questions you can ask to create better inclusivity.

This Access Guide to Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts is intended for performing arts venues and presenters, but can also be used more broadly. It is meant to address long overdue work to make dance and performing arts spaces accessible to artists, venue workers, administrators and audiences with disabilities.

Calling All Crows creates campaigns that harness the power of music to address pressing social issues and to create long-term systemic change. We are building a feminist and just music industry by training artists, venues, and fans in sexual violence prevention and inclusion practices. With more than 15 years of education, service, advocacy, and fundraising, we’ve become a recognized partner and pipeline for social movement building.

Queer Capita is a 501(c)3 non-profit diversity development organization for LGBTQ+ professionals in the music industry. With over 450+ members employed at over 150+ companies, QueerCapita is a national DEI organization. The non-profit produces development workshops, resources, and events that shape the music industry into a space where LGBTQ+ professionals can thrive.

Women in Music is an organization with a mission to advance the awareness, equality, diversity, heritage, opportunities, and cultural aspects of women in the musical arts through education, support, empowerment, and recognition. From LA to Japan, our members are a diverse group of individuals at all stages in their careers — from students to seasoned industry veterans.

Curated by SoundGirls, this is a collection of industry directories highlighting organizations, resources, and groups that support women, non-binary people and people of color in music and audio. It’s designed to connect people with communities, opportunities, and support networks across the industry in order to empower the next generation of women in audio.

The often-used terms diversity, equity, and inclusion have distinct meanings. People get tripped up not only on definitions, but also on using these terms to create goals and action plans for themselves and their organizational culture. There is no better time to dig deep and establish shared, fundamental understandings to build truly supportive and effective workplaces.

Shesaid.so is a global independent community of women and gender nonconforming people in the music industry. The shesaid.so community consists of women, gender nonconforming people and ALLIES from all sectors of the music industry: from record labels, artist management companies, and booking agencies, through to technology platforms, creative agencies, composers, artists and more.

Volunteer with Music Forward and join our mission of transforming young lives, inspiring careers, and championing a more inclusive music industry. Help redefine what’s possible for the next generation of music industry leaders and innovators by sharing your insight, knowledge and skills at programs and events that connect passions to professions.

The Ctrl Room Series, powered by Gender Amplified, Inc. and the Warner Music Group Social Justice Fund, is a music production camp designed to bring incredible women-identifying and non-binary producers, songwriters and other creatives together with the intention of making great music, networking and learning in community.

Volunteer! We’d love to get to know you better! Gender Amplified embraces passionate and driven producers, songwriters, audio engineers, and everyone in between aiming to build a more equitable future in the music industry. There are many ways to get involved!

Using previous academic research from The University of Waterloo and Duke University which outlined a series of male and female gender-coded words, we analysed 76,929 job adverts over a six week period to assess the frequency of gender-coded words in UK recruitment.

Unfortunately, there is nowhere more apparent where our unconscious bias plays out than during the recruitment process; when recruiters are told time and again to ‘trust your gut’ – to rely on and make decisions based on our intuition. But as you’ll discover later on, intuition is based on, yup, you guessed it, unconscious bias.

This report presents the results from a survey designed to examine the socioeconomic landscape of women working in the music industry across the United States. The survey was designed to build upon existing research on inclusion in the music industry and asked questions about demographics, employment, career challenges, and job satisfaction among women.

Universal Production Music has digitally released "100% Her," a new production music album featuring tracks composed, mixed, and mastered by women. "100% Her” is a collaborative effort between Universal Production Music and Shesaid.so, an international and diverse network of women within the music industry. The initiative was also supported by She Is The Music, a global non-profit working to increase the number of women in music.

National Arts Strategies (NAS) builds and supports a diverse community of arts and culture leaders who drive inspiring change for the future. The Racial Equity Principles is a framework and shared commitment to guide us in creating more equitable workplaces and communities. We encourage you to commit to adapting and adopting them into their work to be a part of a diverse network of leaders across the world who are committed to advancing racial equity in arts and culture.

The purpose of the IDEA committee is to create and share resources for members to use in their efforts to work toward greater equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility; to amplify initiatives launched by other groups and organizations within the entertainment industry; and encourage venues, promoters, and festivals to prioritize and support IDEA work and initiatives within their businesses and communities.

The Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is a biennial national conference that centers the multiple oppressions that shape the lived experiences of disabled individuals, as told by disabled people, in a setting organized by disabled activists. Access should be a collective responsibility, and DIS provides a list of basic access suggestion as a place to start.

This article examines how, after the 2020 racial justice protests, major music companies pledged to address systemic racism and support Black artists and employees. It highlights the promises made — such as financial donations, diversity initiatives, and internal reforms — and evaluates the slow, uneven progress since then, with some efforts falling short of real structural change.

How good is your diversity statement? The best diversity statements include: the company’s mission, a commitment to diversity, mention of specific underrepresented groups, positive and inclusive language, and unique information or benefits for diverse groups. These 25+ examples are either excellent overall or at least have an idea or two for you to consider.