Diversity and Reconciliation 
Policy

Last update : 23 June 2026

Purpose

This policy sets out how GlobetrottingFundraiser (GtF) puts justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and Reconciliation into practice. It is not a statement of good intentions. It is a record of the commitments we are prepared to be held to, written for the organization we actually are: a small, independent legacy giving consultancy that works with charities and international organizations across many cultures and languages.

We work in a sector that talks confidently about fairness and inclusion and far less often proves it. Our positioning is built on evidence and integrity, so it would be inconsistent to ask that of our clients and not hold ourselves to the same standard.

Who this applies to

GlobetrottingFundraiser operates as a sole practitioner. This policy therefore applies to:

  • The principal, in all aspects of the practice.
  • Any associates, subcontractors, or collaborators engaged to deliver work under the GtF name.
  • Suppliers and vendors we choose to spend money with.
  • The way we design and deliver every client engagement.

We do not pretend to have a workforce, a board, or an HR function. Where a commitment below would normally sit with a committee or a people team, it sits with the principal.

What we mean

Justice is the active work of identifying and removing the barriers and biases, including historical and systemic ones, that produce unequal outcomes. It goes beyond treating people the same.

Equity is fair access, treatment, opportunity, and advancement, recognizing that people start from different places and that identical treatment can still produce unfair results.

Diversity is the full range of ways people differ, including but not limited to race, ancestry, place of origin, ethnicity, language, citizenship, faith, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, family status, disability, neurodivergence, and socioeconomic background.

Inclusion is making sure a diversity of people genuinely have a voice, are respected, and can participate fully, rather than simply being present.

Reconciliation is the ongoing work of building and renewing respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, and of supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action. We treat it as a distinct and named commitment, not as a subset of diversity.

Equity-deserving groups are communities that face significant barriers to equal participation, including the barriers named above. We use the most respectful current terminology available to us and accept that this language will keep evolving.

Land and Reconciliation

GlobetrottingFundraiser is based in Gore, Quebec, in the MRC Argenteuil, on territory whose stewardship and significance are set out in our land acknowledgement. We treat that acknowledgement as a starting commitment, not a closing courtesy.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action 92 asks the business sector to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework, to ensure equitable access to opportunity, and to educate management on the history of Indigenous peoples. As a business, we accept that call as directed at us. In practical terms, we commit to:

  • Keep learning the history and present realities of the peoples whose territory we work on and from.
  • Seek out and fairly compensate Indigenous expertise when our work touches Indigenous communities or audiences, rather than speaking for them.
  • Advise clients honestly when a legacy or philanthropy strategy risks treating Indigenous communities as recipients of charity rather than partners with their own priorities and authority.
  • Continue to refine our land acknowledgement so that it reflects genuine relationship and learning over time.

Our commitments

In how we work

  • We design client engagements to be culturally grounded, not culturally borrowed. We adapt research, language, and donor strategy to the context at hand rather than exporting one market's assumptions onto another.
  • We bring an equity lens to the advice itself. Legacy and philanthropic strategy can quietly entrench whose voices get heard and whose causes get funded, and we name that with clients when we see it.
  • We treat trust as something owed to the communities a charity serves, not only to the charity, and we say so in our work.

In who we work with

  • When we engage associates or subcontractors, we make genuine efforts to widen the pool beyond our existing networks, since defaulting to who we already know is one of the most common ways small practices stay homogeneous.
  • We pay fairly and on time, and we are transparent about scope and expectations.
  • Where we have a real choice of supplier, we give preference to businesses owned or led by people from equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous-owned businesses.

In what we produce

  • We make our materials as accessible as we reasonably can, including plain language, readable design, and accommodation of access needs on request.
  • We work in English, French, and Spanish, and we adapt register and cultural reference rather than translating mechanically.
  • We are deliberate about representation in the examples, images, and case studies we use, and we avoid tokenism.

In our own learning and accountability

  • We commit to ongoing, active learning on equity and Reconciliation rather than treating either as settled knowledge.
  • We welcome feedback, including uncomfortable feedback, on how we are living up to this policy, and we provide a clear way to give it.
  • We accept that we will get things wrong, and we treat correction as part of the work rather than a threat to it.

Accountability and review

Responsibility for this policy rests with the principal. Anyone who works with or for GtF is expected to act consistently with it.

If you believe we have fallen short of this policy, or you have a suggestion for strengthening it, please contact us at [insert contact]. We will respond.

This policy is reviewed at least once a year, and sooner if our circumstances change, for example if we grow beyond a sole practitioner. Each review asks a simple question: not whether the language still sounds good, but whether our actual practice over the past year matched it.

Frameworks we draw on

  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015), Calls to Action, in particular Call to Action 92.
  • United Nations (2007), Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
  • Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (Quebec) and the Canadian Human Rights Act.