Archive for August 2014

By Darryl Fears More than 50 years after the Kennedy administration found that the National Park Service had a single black ranger and bemoaned a serious lack of diversity in the federal conservation corps, not much has changed at public and private organizations that serve as stewards of the environment, according to a survey.A report released last month said…

A new US report shows that mainstream environmental NGOs and Foundations have made little progress in racially diversifying the “green insiders club”. The report, by advocacy Not for Profit Green 2.0, finds that although people of colour now account for more than a third of the US population, they have not broken the 16 per…

By Suzanne Goldenberg The report by University of Michigan professor, Dorceta Taylor, was the most exhaustive survey to date on the state of diversity among the nearly 300 independent groups and government agencies making up America’s environmental movement. The report found: • More than 70% of the presidents and board chairs of environmental groups were male. At…

By Megan O’Neil The Chronicle of Philanthropy Environmental organizations—overwhelmingly the domain of white professionals—must implement strategies to combat unconscious bias and a lack of diversity in hiring, a new report says. Commissioned by a diversity advocacy group called Green 2.0, the report found that while people of color make up about 36 percent of the U.S. population…

WRITTEN BY RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE CREATED ON WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY 2014 13:57 A study released yesterday takes a look at gender, racial, and class diversity in three types of environmental groups—government agencies, grantmaking foundations, and nonprofits (in particular, conservation and preservation groups that could be designated “mainstream”)—and finds the landscape disturbing. The principal investigator of the study is Dorceta E.…