Reports from the InDEEP initiative
RACE TO THE BOARD: THE TOOLKIT
This toolkit was designed to accompany the full report titled Race to the Board: Strategies for Readiness, Recruitment, and Retention of Black Trustees on Green Nonprofit Boards. It will provide actionable steps and resources that align with research recommendations and findings. Although this is not an exhaustive list of resources and actions, groups can utilize and adapt these tools to best fit their organizational gaps and needs.
Resources accompany each recommendation, but can also be used to address the overlap between these recommendations and the 3Rs, readiness, recruitment, and retention.
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RACE TO THE BOARD: Strategies for Readiness, Recruitment, and Retention of Black Trustees on Green Nonprofit Boards
The research team of the Inclusion Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy (InDEEP) initiative posits that the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black police brutality, unprecedented political dissent, and environmental calamity have further exposed the need to diversify environmental and conservation nonprofits
This report highlights the urgency for greater board diversity and offers specific steps these groups can take to achieve environmental justice.
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Closing the Gap: Insights from the Field to Close the $2.7 Billion Funding Gap Between White-Led and BIPOC-Led Environmental and Conservation Organizations
The research team of the Inclusion Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy (InDEEP) initiative set out to understand this gap in environmental and conservation philanthropy and to identify a set of practices that could help the philanthropic sector close the gap.
Despite the value of BIPOC-led work in this field, the InDEEP researchers found that white-led organizations are more resourced and better funded than BIPOC-led organizations. An analysis of data from Candid for the five-year period from 2014 through 2018 found that the funding gap between white-led and BIPOC-led environmental and conservation organizations is approximately $2.7 billion.
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Conservation, Environment, and Race: Implications for Funders explores opportunities, challenges, and best practices to education conservation and environmental funders and connect them to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) leaders and new partners. The InDEEP initiative staff interviewed 14 leaders from environmental, conservation and climate nonprofits for the report in fall of 2020. Additionally, 330 funders and BIPOC leaders participated in a virtual learning series and contributed to this body of research. Funding for the virtual learning series and research was provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.