DEI Note: Holiday Season Is All Year Long!

29 Sep 2022 3:58 PM | Anonymous
The calendar is full of holidays, major and minor, secular and religious. While we would have a hard time scheduling any events if we had to work around every single one of them, here are some simple suggestions to ensure our members and the public can participate in our programs.
  • First, ask! It's okay to ask folks what holidays they celebrate and look at how you can adapt your programming around them. We do this for many Christian and secular holidays without thinking about it—for example, there is often a lull in activities between Christmas Eve and New Year's.
  • Second, make sure that attendance is truly optional if you do need to hold an event on a holiday. While it may not be the most ideal to hold an informational forum or volunteer event during Rosh Hashanah, it's much better than holding a board meeting then, because attendance at the latter is necessary.
  • Third, let technology assist! You can add holidays to your calendar automatically with many email tools. Recording your forums and events also gives folks unable to attend for any reason a way to catch up later.

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