Join Open to All
Partnership and support through your toughest challenges.
The Open to All coalition includes 200+ nonprofit members of the civil rights community and a growing movement of hundreds of thousands of businesses large and small.
Together, these businesses are taking a public stand against discrimination while pledging to be Open to All.
Businesses have access to a wide range of helpful resources, from Open to All window signs to social media content and informational materials for employees and customers.
Is your business committed to being Open to All?
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Corporate Members
OTA helps companies not only successfully navigate today’s complexities — but innovate and thrive.
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Nonprofit Members
We offer peer collaborations and resources that have meaningful impact and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Small Business Members
By joining OTA, companies can learn from, collaborate and even innovate with each other, rather than facing each new challenge alone.
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Consumers
Sign the Customer Pledge and commit to treating employees and other customers with respect and dignity.
Pledge to show your support
Maintain a welcoming and safe environment for people—including employees, visitors, customers, vendors and clients—regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, immigration status, religion or disability.
Not discriminate against any individuals or deny them goods or services based on any of these characteristics, and to provide all goods and services to everyone on the same terms.*
*Nothing in this pledge prevents a business from following applicable employment laws with regards to work authorization.
Display the Open to All window cling in your storefront, if applicable. When you take the Open to All business pledge and make a $10 tax-deductible contribution, we will mail you a window cling.
We encourage businesses that have a Yelp page to activate the new “Open to All” attribute to show your local customers that your business is Open to All.
Click here for step-by-step instructions for updating your Yelp business profile page.
Our Community
OTA helps companies not only successfully navigate today’s complexities — but innovate and thrive.
DEI initiatives are becoming increasingly complex to navigate. Open to All’s mission and approach are to help companies that are authentically on the journey to create a culture of belonging. Our approach is rooted in partnership and support as opposed to lecturing or blaming companies for not being further along or for not being perfect.
We work with a range of companies including those who are innovating DEI practices and integrating them throughout every part of their company, to those who are struggling in the current political environment or who don’t have full C-suite buy-in.
We understand public engagement isn’t for everyone. We have options for companies including those who want to publicly be on the forefront—as well as those who want to participate, but not publicly.
Open to All Resources
In addition to our open-sourced resources on our website, Open to All has many resources only available to our members, including:
Open to All Resources
In addition to our open-sourced resources on our website, Open to All has many resources only available to our members, including:
Employee Resource Group Guidebook
OTA launched a 100+ page Employee Resource Group Leadership Guidebook, published in partnership with Capri Holdings/Michael Kors and Seramount. We surveyed OTA members about their ERG programs and wrote case studies to address such topics as including part-time retail sales associates, best practices for working with communities of faith, intersecting identities (such as LGBTQ people of color), and how to manage ERGs globally.
Limitless Learning Retail Apprenticeship Program Pilot Blueprint
VF Corporation’s Limitless Learning Retail Apprenticeship program is a year-long program that grants retail associates the chance to develop new skills and make connections in a corporate setting. Open to All and VFC collaborated to create a blueprint for those interested in starting their own pilot apprenticeship program.
Managing Crisis: An Open to All Toolkit
In partnership with the Retail Industry Leaders Association, Right To Be, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, OTA produced a toolkit to manage crisis communications, public safety, brand reputation, protecting employees and customers from harassment and violence, and hearing from survivors and loved ones of hate-motivated violence, including retail locations.
We have three e-learnings available to Open to All members:
- Unconscious Bias Training produced in partnership with Ralph Lauren.
- Allyship and Advocacy Training produced in partnership with Ralph Lauren.
- Reduce Racial Bias in Retail Training produced in partnership with Mattingly Solutions.
Interactive Programming
One of Open to All’s most popular offerings is our monthly briefing series. Some topics we covered recently:
- How to best support Muslim employees and customers during Ramadan presented by Muslim Advocates
- Addressing the rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes with the Anti-Defamation League,
- Combatting anti-AAPI hate with Asian Americans Advancing Justice—AAJC;
- Legal analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action and implications for corporations with Legal Defense Fund
- Access and accommodation—disability inclusion in the workplace presented by the American Association of People with Disabilities and Disability: IN
- An overview of national and state-level attacks on LGBTQ people with the Movement Advancement Project.
Our briefings are recorded for members to watch at their leisure and to share internally. We publish a blog post following each briefing.