BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
For Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion
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Amount$75,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/6/2020
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
With funding from the Hewlett Foundation, BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) will hire an experienced racial justice and equity consultant to both assess BGA's organizational culture, policies, and structure, and provide diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice recommendations in the form of a comprehensive plan. The plan will outline actionable steps BGA can take to achieve its goal of becoming a welcoming workplace for all current and future employees, foster equality, empower its employees to speak out against racial discrimination, provide pathways for employees to reach their full potential and take leadership roles that help drive the organization forward, and prioritize policy solutions to structural racism.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.bgafoundation.org
Address
2701 University Avenue, SE, #209, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation works to solve today’s climate problems in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy. This grant will support a variety of the foundation’s activities, including research and communications, to unite labor unions and environmental organizations around the implementation of job-creating climate and environmental solutions. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
for general operating support
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation works to solve today’s climate problems in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy. The foundation achieves its mission through research, education, communications, coalition building, and policy development, working within a national partnership that unites labor unions and environmental organizations around job-creating climate and environmental solutions. It prioritizes the successful implementation of federal climate investment, with a focus on supporting the creation of good jobs and supporting workers and communities facing historic racism and underinvestment. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
for organizational assessment
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) educates the public about the job-creating potential of environmental solutions. BGAF's staff has grown by 30% over the past year and a half. This organizational effectiveness grant will support a consultant to conduct an internal assessment and provide recommendations on how to best structure internal systems and teams. (Substrategy: Philanthropic Capacity)
