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Please check back soon for upcoming sessions of the Diversity Matters Environmental & Social Change Leadership Series.

DM’s national people of color network:

* Connects people of color across progressive movements to expand their networks and build a foundation for collaboration and shared professional opportunities.
* Provides learning and leadership development opportunities for network members, including but not limited to acting as change agents for integrating justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in all facets of progressive work and gaining additional professional skills and knowledge on environmental and social change issues.
* Supports people of color to sustain their passion and engagement in social change as a career and to manage challenges facing people of color in progressive movements.
* Provides an opportunity for cross-generational dialogue and learning from the most experienced leaders of color in progressive work to students and new entrants in the field.

Contact us to get involved at info[at]diversity-matters.org.

Everybody’s Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change, authored by Diversity Matters Executive Director Angela Park and published by the Environmental Support Center, lays out strategies for building an inclusive and more effective climate change movement.

Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment, published by the Applied Research Center and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity with two different foundations, shares lessons learned from piloting a Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment. While focused on philanthropy, the report is excellent background and makes important recommendations relevant to all progressive organizations.

Diversity and the Future of the U.S. Environmental Movement, published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, includes 16 chapters written by leaders across the spectrum of the field.