Our Commitment & Pledge for Action
Mal Warwick Donordigital (“MWD,” “Company”)
is committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppression organization and we have a
zero-tolerance policy for racism, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and oppression of any
kind. We pledge to identify and disrupt the systems of racism and oppression that exist within
our agency through education, review of current company policies and practices, continuous
efforts to dismantle all forms of racism, activating a culture of anti-racism, and ongoing
transparency with our employee-owners and stakeholders on our journey.
We are dedicated to fulfilling this commitment in all aspects of the employee-owner
lifecycle including recruitment, hiring, placement, job duties and responsibilities, training,
promotion, rates of pay and other compensation, disciplinary action, termination, and all other
terms, conditions, and privileges of employment or consideration of employment with MWD.
We will adhere to this commitment and hold those working for and with the Company
accountable for their interactions with the individuals of our agency including, but not limited
to, employees, contractors, clients, vendors, partners, board members, visitors, and anyone else
who has reason to engage or do business with MWD.
MWD’s History & Values
Since 1979, Mal Warwick Donordigital has been grounded in
values that champion social justice, world peace, and the protection of our environment,
through our work with nonprofit organizations. 
We’ve made a pledge of social
responsibility that directly serves not only our clients and our community, it impacts the
ways we engage with our employee-owners in creating a fair and equitable working
relationship over the course of a person’s tenure with MWD. Our values include:
Social and economic justice: Since our founding in 1979 we have consistently sought out as clients nonprofit causes and institutions, candidates, and political committees that are dedicated to fostering social and economic justice.
Environmental action: From the time of our incorporation in 1983, we have actively taken steps to minimize the company’s environmental footprint and to urge our vendors and service providers to do so, too.
Fairness in the workplace: For decades, we have worked to promote fairness in the workplace and address the injustice that manifests in American society as inequality in both income and wealth by equalizing company-wide profit-sharing among all full-time employees, by contributing as generously as possible to our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (which is now the company’s majority owner), and by fostering diversity and inclusion from top to bottom.
Giving back to our community: We acknowledge how our neighbors and our professional peers have helped make our success possible—by contributing to nonprofit causes through our Philanthropic Fund and to community organizations financially and in volunteer hours in both cities where our offices are located, and by dedicating the time of staff members to provide leadership in professional organizations, to teach at fundraising conferences and workshops, to publish case studies and insightful articles about our work both in print and online, and to offer pro bono service to nonprofit organizations that cannot afford our fees.
We Acknowledge…
While Mal Warwick Donordigital has strived since our inception to create a fair and equitable environment for all who work for and with MWD, we acknowledge:
- We live in a country and world in which individual, societal, structural, organizational, institutional, and systematic racism exists.
- Each of us has internalized biases, judgments, prejudices, stereotypes, myths, and a history of conditioning that affect our thought processes and impact our decision-making abilities, leading to both unconscious and conscious bias, racism, and oppression.
- The injustices that persist around us are rooted internally in the ways we perceive ourselves and others and are expressed externally in our interpersonal relationships, emotional reactions, communication styles and habits, and other behaviors.
- These same injustices are further reinforced in the principles, practices, guidelines, policies, rules, laws, and regulations that uphold racism and oppression.
- While it may not be our intent, the impact of our individual and collective actions is an inequitable distribution of rights, wealth, resources, opportunities, representation, and experiences across racial groups and over multiple generations.
- As a company, we have unconsciously participated in a mindset that centers the constructs and principles of white supremacy culture (Okun, 2013)1 as the standard. While this has never been our intent, we recognize that this has benefited those who most successfully conformed to those singular values.
Accountability & Transparency
Accountability
MWD commits to revisiting our goals at least annually, calling upon feedback
from our employee-owners and realigning goals as needed.
Any acts of racism, discrimination, harassment, and/or oppression should be
reported to HR, a manager, or any member of leadership immediately, whether you
are a bystander, a participant, or information of an incident was shared with
you by a third party. If you are unable for any reason to speak to the
individuals listed above, we encourage you to contact MWD’s Board of
Directors (boardmember[at]mwdagency.com is a group email address that reaches
every member of our board).
The Company will promptly and thoroughly investigate any claim and, when
completed, we will communicate the outcome of the investigation to the person(s)
who reported the harm, the alleged harmer(s) and, if appropriate, any others
directly involved or impacted.
Violation of this policy by an employee will subject that individual to
disciplinary action, which may include a range of actions including immediate
suspension or termination.
Violation of this policy by an individual engaged in an outside working
relationship with MWD will result in a range of actions from MWD including
escalation to the individual’s employer or supervisor, the banning of that
individual from future contact with impacted MWD employees, and/or a suspension
or severing of the working relationship with that individual’s
employer.
Mal Warwick Donordigital prohibits retaliation against employees who report,
oppose, or participate in an investigation of alleged violations of this policy.
Transparency
MWD’s Vice President of People & Culture will
share a progress report with our employee-owners at least annually during our
State of the Agency meeting, and semi-annually with our Board of Directors.
We will print relevant findings to external stakeholders and community members
in our annual Benefit Report.
1 Okun, T. (2013, January). White Supremacy Culture. dRworks. https://collectiveliberation.org/wp‑content/uploads/2013/01/White_Supremacy_Culture_Okun.pdf
published 02/19/2021, revised 06/09/2021
