FLAIR pledges £200,000 to tackle racial inequity in the healthcare and third sectors
Technology company, FLAIR, will invest £200,000 over the next year to help the NHS/Public sector and Non-Profit organisations harness data to advance racial equity.
The grant has been ringfenced to make FLAIR’s analytics engine more accessible to the organisations that require it the most. The £200,000 pledge will provide support for up to 100 organisations across the healthcare and non-profit sectors to develop a credible and independent annual benchmark for racial equity.
Nii Cleland, CEO and Co-founder at FLAIR, said, “We are focusing on tackling systemic racism using data in the sectors where it has the biggest impact on society at large. Healthcare and non-profit organisations must have their own house in order to be able to provide the necessary level of service and care to the communities that they are set up to serve. Until then, racial inequality can literally be a matter of life or death—as the pandemic has shown.”
Cleland continues, “The commitment to racial equity from the leaders we are currently speaking to across these sectors has been extremely encouraging. We are already working with a growing number of NHS Trusts and leading charities; however, we are also speaking to many organisations that cannot access the funds to gather the data required to drive racial equity. That is why we have decided to commit £200,000 to enable us to make FLAIR more accessible for the organisations that desperately require it.”
A maximum of £2,000 will be available per project per organisation, which will be used to heavily subsidise costs for FLAIR’s service. Each project will include an annual organisation-wide questionnaire consisting of: lived employee experience, a data-backed Racial Equity Roadmap, and benchmark data to measure progress annually and industry-wide.
Jane Caldwell, CEO at Age UK - East London, says, “There is nothing else out there like this. It goes beyond the usual equality and diversity surveys and takes the whole organisation on a journey towards a better, positive anti-racist workplace where everyone can be their true self.”
FLAIR is already working with over 100 organisations including British Red Cross, Marie Curie, Age UK, Frontline, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and East London NHS Foundation Trust. With this grant, FLAIR hopes to extend its client base to build sector-wide pressure to take data-backed action against racial inequity.
Are you eligible?
You must be a non-profit, charity, or healthcare organisation
You must have a flagship office in the UK and/or the US
You must have a workforce in the UK and/or the US of over 100 people
The funding launches on Monday 18 July 2022 and closes at midnight on Friday 9th September 2022. Please email [email protected] for more information.