2025 Week Equity Challenge
The Equity Challenge is a powerful opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how inequity and racism affect our lives and our community.
Welcome to Heart of Indiana United Way’s annual 6-Week Equity Challenge! We’re so excited to have you join us as we continue to grow together toward equity and justice.
Over the years, we’ve made great strides on this shared journey toward unity. As we begin the 2025 challenge, we honor the work that has come before us and look forward to continuing this important work alongside you. This challenge brings us together, uniting people from diverse backgrounds, identities, and counties to commit to learning, engaging, reflecting, celebrating, and taking action toward building a more equitable community.
How does the challenge work?
100% FREE to participate
Each week, participants will receive 3 emails with thought provoking resources.
- Daily topics include Understanding Privilege, Belonging and Intersectionality and many more
The experience deepens understanding, suggests ways to take action, and helps launch what we hope will be a lifelong commitment to improving equity and inclusion in our community
Starting on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20th, you will receive an email each week with curated resources on topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. You’ll have the option to read an article, watch a video, or listen to a podcast—each taking just 10-15 minutes of your time. Engage with as many resources as you like, and take a moment to reflect on what you’ve learned.
Materials may be accessed here or by registering for an automatic email send. Registration is open at any time. You will receive three emails each week for six weeks. Each day’s content will be linked below when released.
We know that when we Live United, we must Live United for everyone.
Investing in equity is necessary expand both our incorporation of diversity, equity and inclusion into our organizational practices and culture, as well as to create sustainable change in our region.
Deepening our understanding of race and equity doesn’t happen overnight. Yet, learning how to develop or strengthen our race equity lens is a key part of bringing equitable change to our communities.
By registering here, you’ll receive three email prompts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning for six weeks with readings, videos, and podcasts that explore specific topics including privilege, institutional and structural racism, microaggressions
United Way fights for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in every community. As an organization, we are committed to cultural humility with the understanding that equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice are necessary to create a thriving community for everyone. That work calls us to lean into our discomfort in the effort to learn, grow and act.
We’re grateful for those who have led the way in their communities and in this network, not just to acknowledge the inequities and injustices, but to do the work and commit to active anti-racism and equity in all that we do.
The 6 Week Equity Challenge is another step toward personal and community growth. We hope you join us.
More about the challenge:
The 21 Day Equity Challenge is adapted from the work of Debby Irving, racial justice educator and writer, and Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., Director of the Privilege Institute in Green Bay, WI. Ms. Irving and Dr. Moore designed the challenge to not only help people better understand the issues surrounding equity and inclusion, but to do so in a way that would build a long-lasting habit of learning by stretching it over 21 days.
United Way of Washtenaw County (Now United Way of Southeastern Michigan) introduced the challenge into the United Way network.
We’ve adapted the concept to 6 weeks, encouraging participants to engage with a topic throughout the week, revisiting the questions and taking time to engage with the materials.
This Challenge is meant to help develop and strengthen our race equity lens as we learn from new and different perspectives, deepen understanding, share ways to take action, and help launch what we hope will be a lifelong commitment to improving equity and inclusion in our state and communities.
We recognize that every person is on their own journey of understanding equity and inclusion. It is our hope that no matter where you are on this journey or what your lived experiences are that you can gain something new from participating in this challenge.