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Guides, Toolkits, and Assessments for Diaspora Leaders and Partners
Practical resources from The Diaspora Academy for diaspora professionals, founders, and second-generation leaders, and for the funders, companies, and organizations that partner with diaspora communities. Every PDF arrives in your inbox right after checkout.
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Free tools that show where you stand.
Quiz: Are You a Part of the Diaspora?
Answer eight questions in three minutes and find out where you stand in the diaspora, with a next step made for your result.
What’s inside
- Questions on your heritage, your homeland, and your community
- Your result: Strongly Activated, Emerging and Reconnecting, Discovering for the First Time, or Indigenous
- Concrete next steps for your result
- Your full results sent to your inbox
Diaspora Primer
This 4-page primer helps you understand what a diaspora is, who it includes, and how Time, Talent, and Treasure unlock diaspora capital.
What’s inside
- A welcome note and the definition of diaspora we use, from the International Organization for Migration
- First-generation, second-generation, and multigenerational diasporas
- Profiles showing the material and affective ties people keep to home
- Time, Talent, and Treasure, the keys to unlocking diaspora capital, with a snapshot to fill in
What Is the Diaspora?
This 9-page guide gives your team a clear, shared definition of diaspora, so you can see who your diaspora partners are and engage them with confidence.
What’s inside
- Get the internationally recognized definition of diaspora that The Diaspora Academy teaches.
- Discover who belongs to a diaspora, across every generation.
- Learn the language that opens the door to authentic partnership with diaspora communities.
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3 Tools to Help You Define Your Diaspora Roadmap
This 11-page workbook helps you mark where you stand today and name your next move in one focused hour.
What’s inside
- A 3Ts inventory of your Time, Talent, and Treasure
- A Three G's map of Generation, Gender, and Geography
- A R.O.P.E. stage check
- A one-page roadmap and monthly check-in
Go Deeper
Focused guides and assessments to plan, prepare, and lead.
Second-Gen Homeland Readiness Kit
This 21-page kit helps you arrive in your family's homeland prepared and ready to make a lasting commitment.
What’s inside
- A Where I Stand self-assessment and a Family Map
- Questions to ask your parents
- A pre-engagement checklist and reflection log
- A staged action plan built on Time, Talent, and Treasure
Diaspora Strengths Assessment Workbook
A self-paced assessment to identify your diaspora strengths, your diaspora leadership strengths, and your skills. Lifetime access.
What’s inside
- Statements across every dimension, with written reflections
- Your strength radar, total, and band, saved to your account
- Next steps for your lowest dimension and a first action
- Check-ins at 30 and 90 days, plus a fillable PDF to print
The Diaspora Readiness Score
Get clear on your readiness before you start an initiative for your community, in 10 to 12 minutes. Free to start, with full results and a PDF for $9.
What’s inside
- A Readiness Score out of 100 across five dimensions
- A named read on what is standing in your way
- Your next move and a PDF of the full analysis
The Diaspora Professional's Field Guide to Building What Lasts
This 13-page field guide helps you turn your expertise into impact that lasts.
What’s inside
- Building networks across borders and sectors
- Forging partnerships with shared goals
- Earning trust across cultural distance
- Goal setting with field notes and a 30-day review
Navigating Global Development as a Diaspora Professional
This 14-page policy brief helps you bring your expertise, networks, and authority into global development.
What’s inside
- Chapters that run from your asset inventory to dual accountability
- A directory of U.S. agencies, UN bodies, INGOs, and foundations
- Reflection prompts and four worksheets
- A plan for one sponsor conversation this quarter
Lead Further
In-depth kits and field guides for the work ahead.
Building an Effective Diaspora Engagement Strategy
This 11-page guide walks your leadership team through the approach The Diaspora Academy uses with foundations, companies, and public institutions to create diaspora partnerships that last.
What’s inside
- Set a clear mandate your leadership can own.
- Discover how to map the diaspora stakeholders who matter most to your mission.
- Choose the partnership model that fits your institution and earns diaspora trust.
- Measure the outcomes diaspora partners value, alongside the reach your institution tracks.
The Diaspora Capital Index
This 37-page, data-backed guide gives investors, funders, and institutions a full breakdown of diaspora capital and what it takes to partner with the diasporas who hold it.
What’s inside
- Discover the different forms diaspora capital takes, from financial investment to cultural influence.
- Understand the gains diasporas expect before they commit their Time, Talent, and Treasure.
- Score your institution's partnership readiness with a ready-to-use Index Scorecard.
- Find where your strongest diaspora partnerships are waiting.
Diasporas in America
This 71-page, data-driven guide maps the diaspora communities across the United States, so your institution can see where they live, lead, and build community.
What’s inside
- Discover the regional hubs where diaspora communities have put down roots across the country.
- Get a data-backed demographic profile of diasporas from every major world region.
- See the nonprofits, networks, and businesses shaping each diaspora community.
- Find the partners your institution can start engaging today.
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