Orange County Coastkeeper believes that all people have a right to safe, accessible, inexpensive, fishable, swimmable, and drinkable irrigate. We are committed to creating a community where we can all enjoy our most precious natural resource.
We’ve done a lot in 21 years to protect Orange County’s water- and there’s one thing we can do better: be more representative and inclusive of the diverse Orange County communities. Diversity to us means welcoming all cultures and backgrounds and offering opportunities to include all people in the fight for clean water.
At Coastkeeper, we acknowledge the systemic issues that disproportionately change Black, Indigenous, and People of Color( BIPOC) in our region. These systems has generated roadblocks that limit access to our local natural openings and the leadership characters that help to protect them. These roadblocks likewise restrict access to meaningful suffers in these natural cavities and make it so BIPOC societies are being disproportionately affected by pollution issues.
While we have focused on eliminating these impediments through our education, advocacy, and law programs , now is time for us to be more strategic in our work to establish greater inclusivity in our curricula, the people they serve, and our leadership.
To accomplish this, we have developed a diversity plan and timeline which we will carry out over the next year to guide our effort, regarded ourselves accountable, and have discernible milestones. We will focus our efforts on three neighbourhoods 😛 TAGEND
LEARN: Provide and lead all staff and board members to complete Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion sets that will help guide our desires and strategies to ensure true equity and inclusion in our programs and organization. ACT: Evaluate our bylaws, and employee and apprentice requirements to ensure that the qualifications parallel our recruitment aims and do not act as roadblocks:
Begin by electing diverse board members. Follow with new staff opportunities
ENGAGE: Collaborate and partner with various environmental justice and other organizations that represent the diversity of Orange County and the adjacent field.
If you would like to join Coastkeeper in our fight for clean water for all, satisfy consider joining as a representative by either volunteering or giving to our organization. We all need clean-living ocean to survive, and most importantly, we all deserve access to clean water as a human right.
Let’s get to work.
Photo Credits to David Ohman
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