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The National Accrediting Commission for Diversity and Inclusion is a membership organization that strives to elevate and expand the global capacity of diversity and inclusion. NACDI is committed to supporting professional development and the evaluation of diversity and inclusion practices globally.

Our mission is to elevate and expand the global capacity of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by: Building an inclusive and accessible community for diversity, equity and inclusion professionals that is firmly rooted in the philosophy, principles and practices of diversity, equity and inclusion. Supporting the dissemination of authoritative information for promoting, implementing and advancing the philosophy, principles, and practices of diversity, equity and inclusion. Presenting our collective resources and knowledge to supportive public audiences to elevate and advocate support for the expansion of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Organizations interested in applying to begin the accreditation process should access the application on our website on the Accreditation page. The Application submission deadlines occur four times per year: January 31st, April 30th, July 31st & October 30th.

The purpose of becoming an organizational member of NACDI is to facilitate making connections for members of your leadership and staff with a community of diversity, equity and inclusion leaders and professionals.

NACDI only accepts organizational members. There are no individual memberships.

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Becoming accredited means an organization has conducted a thorough self-assessment and compared themselves to recognized benchmarks of best practice. Accreditation means that the organization, agency, or program was able to demonstrate evidence of implementation to all relevant benchmarks.Accreditation is a rigorous process conducted by a third-party organization such as the National Accrediting Commission for Diversity and Inclusion™.

SOAR (Solutions. Opportunities. Actions. Responses) is a continuous improvement framework and cycle which produces evidence that provides documentation that your organization is doing exactly what it says it is doing in diversity, equity and inclusion.

A benchmark refers to an organizational standard of performance. Benchmarks are usually defined in language stated as an ending result or outcome - helping people in organizations by identifying and describing high-quality results.

The benefits of becoming accredited signifies an organization has submitted to a rigorous self-assessment and peer supervised process against standardized benchmarks of best practice. Accreditation means that the organization, agency, or program was able to demonstrate evidence of best practice implementation of all relevant benchmarks.

The cost to become accredited include initial accreditation fees, annual report fees and re-affirmation fees. A detailed fee schedule is available at www.thenacdi.org

The applicants for accreditation with NACDI will receive official notification of the status of their program(s) within 3-4 months following their initial report submission.

To maintain accreditation with NACDI, an annual report form is be submitted by organizations with accredited programs annually along with the associated annual fee.