Measuring Progress

Project Include is a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions by offering recommendations about measuring diversity and inclusion progress in an organization.

Some recommendations include:

• Set employee, leadership, board, and investor demographic diversity goals
• Regularly conduct thoughtfully designed employee engagement surveys and demographic data
• Regularly review and update data policies
• Use inclusive demographic breakdowns, such as race, gender, and family status
• Use existing metric definitions and surveys that have been effective in the past
• Use metrics that are consistent across the industry
• Be transparent about data findings internally and share some data externally
• Ensure all sensitive data is stored and handled appropriately