Diversity Accord Associates Inc. Profile

Rosetta Springer

Writer, Social Commentator, Intercultural Strategist, Policy Advisor

Diversity Accord Associates Inc. is led by Rosetta Springer, a diversity and cultural Inclusion specialist and trainer in the Greater Toronto Area. Her practice focuses on integrating marginalized communities into the mainstream, and facilitating cross-cultural organizational planning in Canada and globally. Her work with the non-profit sector in Canada now involves developing multicultural strategic planning and policy, project generation and resource development.

Areas of Expertise

• Diversity strategy and cultural competency consulting
• Conducting cultural audits/reviews
• Cross-cultural consulting and joint-venture project funding
• Corporate partnership development for non-profits
• Cross-cultural corporate communications specialist
• Private and public sector organizational change facilitator
• Transcultural governance and board development facilitator
• Organizational change management capacity building
• Multicultural strategic planning and team building support services
• Integrating workplace and leadership diversity

Selected Consulting Highlights

Resource Development

• Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women (METRAC) Toronto — Provided financial resource development, event planning and management services.
• The Coalition of 100 Black Women, New York, N.Y. — Served on committee that planned and implemented the United Nations International School (UNIS) Student Scholarship Fund
• Delcon International Management, U.K. — Obtained $5,000.000 multiyear funding from the Arab Re-insurance League, Bahrain for African Re-insurance Institute in Banjul, Gambia.

Development Project Facilitation and Contract Negotiations

• Organization of Africa Unity, (OAU) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Negotiated and facilitated turnkey finance for conference facilities project
• National Petroleum Company, Freetown, (NP) Sierra Leone — Generated joint venture financing proposal for oil shipping and marketing project.
• Mano River Rice Union, Monrovia, Liberia — Facilitated Finance and Construction loan through the African Development Bank for office and training facilities.

Strategic Planning

• The Redwood, Toronto (In Progress)
• Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, (METRAC), Toronto: Developed 3-Year Resource Development Strategic Plan.
• Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Center (WMRCC), Ajax, Durham: Volunteer Director of Policy and Strategic Development team.
• United Nations/UNIS Student Conference, New York: Staff advisor responsible for developing a 5-Year Strategic Plan, including the corporate philanthropic funding.
• John Whtye and Partners, U.K. & Belgium, Project Developers: Facilitated turnkey financing from the African Development Bank (ADB), Abidjan for the first West African Nurse Training Institute, Banjul, Gambia

Board/ Leadership Development - Cultural Inclusion and Sensitivity Training

• The Redwood, Toronto;
• The Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre, Ajax;
• Violence Prevention Co-ordination Council, Durham; (VPCC)
• United Way Board Leadership Workshops, Ajax, Pickering & Uxbridge;

Cultural Audits and Bias/Harassment Investigation

• The Women's Support Network (WSN), North York;
• Ministry of Education and Training, Liberia: Review of Human Resource and Expatriate contractual policies of World Bank and USAID Project managers;

Project Planning

• Violence Prevention Coordination Council, (VPCC) Durham: Developed the Status of Women funded project "Changing the Landscape Project — Integrating Race and Gender into Social Service Delivery in Durham."
• Woman Abuse Council, Toronto: Workshop Facilitator and Keynote Speaker
• VPCC Gender Analysis Think Tank and research committee member: developed a Woman Abuse Resource Kit for social service agencies: "Overcoming the backlash against a Gendered Analysis of Woman Abuse"

Advocacy and Coalition Work

• Toronto Women's Group, (If Low Income Women of Colour mattered in Toronto); Coalition Member, City Of Toronto
• Association for Women's Rights in Development, Toronto — Member
• December 6 Fund of Toronto — Member, Fundraising Committee
• Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, — Member

Academic Education

• University of Western Ontario, B.A. Political Science & History
• Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. M.Ed. (In Progress)
• Sheik Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal: Certificat de Langue et Culture Francaise

Professional Education

• CFRE (Certified fundraising Executive) in progress: Member, Association of Fundraising Professionals, (AFP)
• TESL Ontario Certificate: Teacher of English as a Second Language — Benns Language School, Toronto
• Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE): Race and Education in Schools Certificate — Toronto