2023-2024 Institutional Assessment: Anonymous Evaluation

2023-2024 Institutional Assessment: Anonymous Evaluation

IAIC (Institutional Assessment and Implementation Committee) is drafting a 5-Year Report to track FGC’s progress towards becoming a fully antiracist organization. We are seeking feedback from Friends regarding their experience at FGC-affiliated events and Meetings to inform this report. We intend to share a full report with Central Committee and the wider community in October 2024. While we may use responses to this survey in our final report, the information gathered will remain anonymous. If you would prefer not to be anonymous, there will be an opportunity to indicate that at the end of the survey. Thank you for your support.

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Demographic Information

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Age

Gender identity (select all that apply)

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Do you consider yourself to be trans?

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Theme 1: Monthly Meeting Engagement

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
My Monthly Meeting looks to FGC to provide resources to engage in conversations around race and racism.
My Monthly Meeting actively seeks out partnership with Black churches, mosques, or other spiritual communities of color.
My community is predominantly white and racism is not seen as a local issue.
Friends of Color in my Monthly Meeting have been or are actively involved in national Quaker organizations.
My Monthly Meeting would like to know how to better welcome People of Color.
In my Monthly Meeting the physical space, including pictures and bulletin boards, reflect white cultural norms.
There is evidence of structural racism in my Monthly Meeting.
When Friends make personal connections across race in their local community, Quakers are more likely to be seen as a spiritual community to join.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 2: Yearly or Monthly Meeting Engagement

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
My Yearly Meeting has ongoing discussions concerning racism.
FGC Friends need to recognize or own participation in systemic racism and work to dismantle it in our Monthly and Yearly Meetings.
My Monthly and/or Yearly Meeting has approved a minute, epistle, or formal public statement regarding racism, white supremacy, sanctuary or a related topic.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 3: Welcoming

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
FGC's stated mission, values, purpose, and by-laws reflect a desire to be a transformative anti-racist organization.
FGC's doors are open to People of Color.
Within FGC, needs of People of Color are considered when designing and/or implementing programs.
FGC is exploring ways to allow all constituents to have equal access to participation in FGC committees and events.
FGC carries out intentional inclusiveness efforts to recruit People of Color.
People of Color who are successfully recruited to serve in FGC are readily welcomed.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 4: Governing Structure

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
FGC's organizational structure is egalitarian and nonhierarchical.
FGC's organizational structure is transparent and easily understood by constituents.
FGC's governance structure may silence People of Color.
FGC's organizational structure is convoluted with only a few people who know how to get things done.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 5: Participatory Decision-Making

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Formal policies unintentionally maintain decision making by people of European descent.
Quaker decision-making is clarified for new attenders at Meetings for Business.
FGC's organizational decisions are made in open Quaker process and discernment.
FGC's decision-making process is transparent and easily understood by constituents.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 6: Finance and Budget Equity

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
The FGC budget is developed and controlled mostly by people of European descent.
FGC structures its fundraising to give small donors a sense of ownership and a feeling of value.
FGC funds come from a limited source of selected foundations and a small number of very large donors.
FGC's dependence on foundations and large donors perpetuates institutional racism.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 7: Participatory Decision-Making

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
FGC Quakers recognize white privilege and racism embedded in our midst.
FGC Quakers see themselves as a “non-racist” institution.
FGC Quakers see themselves as an “anti-racist” institution.
FGC lives up to its stated mission to “fully value and encompass the blessed diversity of our human family.”
FGC, as an organization, is unaware of continuing patterns of privilege, paternalism and control.
FGC-affiliated Quakers find it difficult to name racism among ourselves.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 8: Racial Tension and Conflict Resolution

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
At FGC, conflict is embraced as an opportunity for learning and growth.
Multi-cultural and racial tensions remain unresolved in an FGC culture of conflict avoidance.
Friends of Color are not listened to until they organize together with one voice.
People who are new to Central Committee have very little power.
It takes a long time for Friends of Color’s gifts and experiences to be recognized and used by the organization.
For an individual Person of Color to be heard they must exhibit an extraordinary level of resolve.
People who raise issues that make others uncomfortable are considered troublemakers.
Diversity training tends to address implicit bias and individual acts of racism rather than systemic racism.
Even Quakers who are working to root out their own racism may not be aware of FGC’s systemic racism.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 9: Dominant Worldview

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
North American Quaker traditions predominantly reflect white culture.
FGC operates out of a dominant worldview that includes individual competition.
FGC harbors the perception that resources are scarce.
FGC’s decision-making employs “either / or thinking.”
Historically, FGC has primarily been accountable to people of European descent on board and staff.
Currently, FGC is primarily accountable to people of European descent on board and staff.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

Theme 10: Overcoming Cultural Exclusivity

Please respond to the following statements to the best of your ability. You must respond to every statement to submit the form. If you do not know the answer to a question, please select N/A.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
The insular nature of our nominating process may exclude Friends of Color.
FGC programs reflect a predominantly white culture.
Program success is measured, in part, by the number of participants of Color in attendance but not the quality of their experience.
FGC intends to provide programs that are inclusive but with little success
FGC programs are delivered in a way that demonstrates a lack of sensitivity to and knowledge of People of Color culture(s).
Friends of Color who are successfully recruited to serve in FGC are known by someone who already serves on Central Committee.
It is difficult to be full-time employed and volunteer to serve FGC at the level expected.

Anything else you would like to share regarding this theme?

The continuum

Please see the Continuum to Becoming Antiracist for reference.

	1	2	3	4	5	6
How would you rate FGC on a scale of 1-6, with 1 being fully racially exclusive and 6 being a fully inclusive antiracist/multicultural organization in a transformed society?

Please explain why you made the selection above.

The Query

As a result of the Institutional Assessment on Systemic Racism in 2018, the Institutional Assessment Working Group suggested the use of the following query in all FGC discernment: How does this decision support FGC in its goal to transform into an actively antiracist faith community?

Please answer complete the following sentences regarding the use of the above query:

From my perspective,

	does not use the antiracism query in its discernment.	uses the antiracism query in its discernment, but it does not seem to affect our decisions.	uses the antiracism query often in its discernment and it affects their decision.
my Monthly Meeting
my Yearly Meeting
FGC

Demographic Data Collection

IAIC is collecting demographic data from Yearly Meetings to get a clear sense of where Friends of Color worship. This will help us to more efficiently shape FGC’s program offerings and allow us to see and more accurately describe the racial composition of our denomination.

Is your Yearly Meeting collecting demographic data from Monthly Meetings for this project?

YesNoI don't know

Is there anything else you would like us to know?

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback!

We greatly value your support of the Institutional Assessment Implementation Committee. If you do not wish to remain anonymous, you may provide your name below.

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