Posts by Green 2.0 Team
Grist: Green Groups Have One Less Excuse for Being So White
Green groups have one less excuse for being so white By Brentin Mock on 11 Dec 2014 6 comments Every few months, “diversity” becomes all the rage, often the result of someone exposing the demographic numbers of some industry, company, nonprofit, or government department. It doesn’t matter where you look, the picture too often shows staffing,…
Read MoreNew America Media: EPA Administrator: Enviro Groups Must ‘Reflect Communities They Serve’
EPA Administrator: Enviro Groups Must ‘Reflect Communities They Serve’ New America Media, News Report, Anthony Advincula, Posted:
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: TOP ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PLEDGE TO REVEAL DIVERSITY DATA
TOP ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PLEDGE TO REVEAL DIVERSITY DATA Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, Environmental Defense Fund, Resource Media & Earthjustice promise to submit organizational diversity numbers by February 2015, Green 2.0 announced at event. WASHINGTON D.C. – Six of the nation’s top environmental organizations have formally pledged to submit their diversity…
Read MoreNonprofit Quarterly: GuideStar Will Collect Diversity Data “At Scale” with Nonprofit Sector
GuideStar Will Collect Diversity Data “At Scale” with Nonprofit Sector BY RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE FRIDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2014 14:10 Yesterday, GuideStar announced an important new initiative to monitor the diversity of the nonprofit sector. It plans to work with the D5 Coalition and a range of other partners to collect diversity data about staff, board, and volunteer…
Read MoreThe Chronicle of Philanthropy: GuideStar Unveils Online Tool to Gauge Nonprofits’ Diversity
October 16, 2014 GuideStar Unveils Online Tool to Gauge Nonprofits’ Diversity By Alex Daniels Charities can rate their diversity efforts with a new yardstick being offered by GuideStar, an organization that compiles data on nonprofits. Using a tool on GuideStar’s website nonprofits can compile demographic data on their board members, employees, and volunteers, including their…
Read MorePress Release: GuideStar Launches First-of-Its-Kind Program to Collect Diversity Data from Nonprofits at Scale, Green 2.0 Partners to Highlight Participation of Environmental Organizations; Foundation and Nonprofit Leaders Voice Support
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, GuideStar launched a new way to help set standards for how data about diversity within the nonprofit sector is collected. GuideStar worked in collaboration with the D5 Coalition, which developed the data standards with a wide range of partners to advance transparent and uniform data collection about staff, board, and volunteer demographics in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors,…
Read MoreDiversity Among Mainstream Environmental Leaders Just Took A Step Forward!
“Green 2.0 takes pleasure in congratulating Rhea Suh on breaking the “green ceiling” with her appointment as President of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The Diversity in Environmental Institutions report commissioned by Green 2.0 highlighted the deep diversity challenges, especially within the executive leadership, of the mainstream environmental movement. Today, we celebrate NRDC’s decision to hire a leader…
Read MoreThe Huffington Post Black Voices: Lack of Diversity Within the Environmental Movement Continues to Persist
A recent study of environmental organizations cast a spotlight on some real problems at the top of the environmental movement. “The current state of racial diversity in environmental organizations is troubling,” concludes the report by Professor Dorceta Taylor, who works at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. “Despite the growth in…
Read MoreSIMEON GANT: Are the Environmental Insiders Shunning Blacks?
OPINION – Masud Cunningham, an African American college student and native of Sacramento, California, recently spent his summer in Bolivia, teaching people in an impoverished community how to develop “square gardens” to produce a wide variety of organic vegetables with a solar dehydrator. When I met Masud four years ago, he was a Junior at…
Read MoreThe Guardian: Environmental organizations lag behind the private sector on diversity
Environmental organizations lag behind the private sector on diversity While corporations have made strides in more diverse recruiting, environmental groups still have a long way to travel to overcome their insider club culture Autumn Spanne Thursday 4 September 2014 09.47 EDT Photograph: Guillermo Arias/Xinhua Press/Corbis Corporate diversity is still a problem within green industries –…
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