Here at Fenway Health, our shared values are the core of our work each and every day. As we continue to implement our Strategic Plan and Racial Equity Action Plan (REAP), announced in June, we will engage with internal and external stakeholders with a “Value of the Month.” This month’s value is HUMILITY.
Humility means that we recognize and accept our strengths and limitations. We are open to new ideas and perspectives. We make space for the voices of others. We are willing to ask for help.
Humility also means acknowledging the ways we have fallen short in the past, and committing to learning from those shortcomings to do better in the future. In June 2021, the Fenway Health Board of Directors created a resolution that “affirm[ed] with humility its commitment to the goals and strategies of the [Strategic Plan and REAP]. By adopting this plan, Fenway Health acknowledges the ways in which white dominant culture has shaped this organization historically and presently, and commits itself to a transformational process in order to become an antiracist organization and better serve BIPOC communities.”