Ten Quick Things You Can Do Today To Create a More Diversity Friendly Business 

1. Take the "How Diverse is Your Organization?" quiz to raise awareness of how diversity-friendly your workplace is currently. 

2. Put thought into and fill in, the areas of the above quiz that you weren't able to answer.
Write your own definition of diversity as it relates to your business.

3. Ask your employees for ways they think the company could embrace value differences in others. Not only will this yield some great ideas, it gets your employees involved from the beginning.

4. Write a Diversity Mission Statement (see template below). Get employee input, if appropriate.

5. Post your diversity mission statement and announce its location to your staff.

6. When recruiting, include outreach to diverse populations.

7. Encourage employees to volunteer with organizations that serve diverse populations (People's Kitchen at the Prado Day Center, Homeless Shelter, AIDS Support Network, EOC, People's Self-Help Housing are a few of the great local organizations.)

8. Subscribe to a mailed or emailed newsletter like DiversityInc.com. This newsletter is free, online and will get you diversity news briefs and daily factoids. There is also DiversityBusiness.com, which is a free e-newsletter offering insights on B2B and diversity, business profiles and lists of top companies.

9. Make a commitment to a next step in incorporating diversity-friendly practices into your workplace. (Buy a book on diversity for your company library, get a training videotape for yourself and your employees, facilitate a discussion about diversity. Anything to raise the awareness of diversity and get your employees talking it).

10. Diversity Mission Statement Template

At (Company Name), we strive to create a diversity-friendly environment that values:

(Use any of the following or write your own values)
Differing perspectives
Life experience
A world view
Self-discovery
Self-improvement
New ideas
Skills development
Tolerance
Controversy
Collaboration
Gender differences
Different cultural backgrounds