DRC DEI Benchmarking Assessment

The assessment allows your organization to examine its DEI efforts, whether you are just starting to think about DEI or have a robust strategy in place. The best practices laid out in the assessment tool are tangible actions for implementation to enhance DEI. 

All organizations that complete the assessment will receive a summary aggregate report and can request individual benchmark reports. Participation in the assessment also allows your organization the opportunity to be recognized for an annual award from the DRC. 

The assessment is designed for DRC member organizations across all industries with a presence in the Dallas Region.

The assessment was open from November 2021 – January 2022. We will share more updates when the next assessment opens.

Once your information has been compiled, entering data into the assessment tool takes  approximately 30 minutes. 

No. The DRC is sponsoring the assessment.

Yes, all data submitted through the assessment is confidential. So that we can analyze the results in detail, we decided to partner with Kanarys, an independent third party, to conduct this assessment. To ensure confidentiality, Kanarys will never identify individual participant responses to anyone at a particular organization. 

All individual responses will be collected by Kanarys and will be kept strictly confidential. In addition, the assessment is encrypted using SSL technology to ensure that only Kanarys can capture the survey results. 

All data included in the summary report will be aggregated. Your organization will receive a summary of responses in aggregate form.  

The assessment asks for information around organizational demographics, DEI strategy, recruiting, learning and development, supplier diversity, and other DEI practices.

You will receive a unique link to complete the assessment. The link may be shared with as many contacts in your organization as needed, so that they can fill out the section pertinent to their department. 

Please only submit demographic data and practices for your organization’s operations in the Dallas region. Data for other geographic areas should not be included. 

Yes, you can include that data. The assessment is designed so that most of our business community can participate while still moving the needle in a meaningful way. 

Your progress is saved as you go. You or anyone else working on the assessment can return to the link later to finish and submit the assessment. 

Organizations will be able to opt out of questions as they see fit. 

Before submitting the assessment, you will have the option to save your answers to a PDF. Upon submission you may also save your best practices scores. 

Please contact the Kanarys team at customersuccess@kanarys.com. They can send you a link to get back into your assessment and make changes.

Please contact the Kanarys team at customersuccess@kanarys.com. They can resend you a link to access your assessment.

After the assessment closes, the DRC and Kanarys will analyze the results and create an aggregated report. All participants who complete the assessment will receive access to the aggregate report in Q2 2022.