Posts by Green 2.0 Team
La Opinión: Ambientalistas se retrasan en diversidad
English translation: http://bit.ly/1r1yIUp Foto: New America Media Por: New America Media PUBLICADO: AUG, 8, 2014 1:28 AM EST Ngoc Nguyen. Traducido por Elizabeth Gonzalez. Grupos ambientales convencionales no están reflejando la creciente diversidad racial en los Estados Unidos, según un nuevo informe. Mientras que las minorías representan el 36 por ciento de la población, representan no más del 16…
Read MoreCaribbean Today: Environmental Groups Lag Nation in Diversity
By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media Mainstream environmental groups are not mirroring the increasing racial diversity in the United States, according to a new report. While minorities make up 36 percent of the population, they account for no more than 16 percent of the staff of environmental organizations – a figure that hasn’t budged much…
Read MoreLeMonde.fr: L’écologie, chasse gardée des Blancs aux Etats-Unis
English translation: http://bit.ly/1CqgEvY L’écologie, chasse gardée des Blancs aux Etats-Unis LE MONDE | 26.08.2014 à 11h58 | Par Gilles Paris (Washington, envoyé spécial) Les chiffres sont sans indulgence : alors que les minorités (Afro-Américains, Latinos…) comptent aujourd’hui pour 36 % de la population américaine, elles restent faiblement représentées dans les organisations de défense de l’environnement, qu’il…
Read MoreKALW: Your Call – What can be done to break the environmental movement’s “green ceiling”?
(audio) Your Call: What can be done to break the environmental movement’s “green ceiling”? By Becca Hoekstra LISTEN HERE (53:04) On the August 28th, 2014 edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about how people of color are under significantly underrepresented in environmental groups, especially at the leadership level. A recent study calls it…
Read MoreThe Washington Post: “Study: History of cultural bias has led to a lack of diversity at liberal green groups”
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…
Read MorePro Bono Australia: “Racial Bias in US Environmental Organisations – Report”
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…
Read MoreThe Guardian: “Green groups too white and too male compared to other sectors – report”
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…
Read MoreMinorities Underrepresented at Environmental Groups, Report Says
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…
Read MoreNPQ: The Disturbing Lack of Diversity and Will in Environmental Nonprofits
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.…
Read MoreGrist: “Think people of color don’t care about the environment? Think again”
By Brentin Mock University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment I need to get one thing out the way about “The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations” report launched yesterday. In my blog, I wrote that the report was compiled by a working group called Green 2.0. Actually, all of the research and writing of…
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