Organization Programs and Policies

The Green 2.0 Pay Equity Pledge is a campaign to increase pay equity for staff at environmental organizations. Organizations that take the pledge demonstrate a commitment to anti-discrimination and equal opportunity for all. We asked experts in the environmental and legal fields to tell us more about why pay equity is mission critical and an organizational must.

The Green 2.0 Mentorship Database was launched to close the mentoring gap in the environmental sector and provide tangible relationships and pathways for all communities in the sector. While mentoring can take on many forms, one of the key questions we had for our community is: What makes or breaks a mentoring relationship for them? They shared their responses with us.

Internships are an important entry point for anyone interested in the environmental sector, but they can be inaccessible and out of reach for many. We asked current and former environmental interns how can environmental organizations make internships more inclusive and accessible to all communities?

Deciding to leave a job can be challenging, but doing so is part of healthy professional development. Green 2.0 asked environmental leaders in the sector about common red flags in a job and how you know it’s time to move on. We hope their insights can inspire confidence in yourself and help you prioritize your…

Driven by a deep desire to influence and build diverse, nonprofit talent, LaTresse Snead launched Bonsai Leadership Group LLC with the goal of developing leaders and helping nonprofit executives cultivate inclusive, dynamic and high performing teams to succeed in an increasingly complex workplace.

The Central Maryland Transportation Alliance was formed in 2007 as a diverse coalition of corporate and civic leaders uniting business, philanthropic, and institutional sectors around a common agenda: improving and expanding transportation options for the citizens and businesses of Central Maryland. In this blog, President & CEO Brian O’Malley discusses recent efforts to pass more climate-friendly transportation legislation in the state.

COMPASS champions, connects, and supports diverse science leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature. In this Q+A for Green 2.0, Amanda Stanley, COMPASS’s Executive Director, discusses the updates the organization made to its hiring and onboarding practices to better reflect its strong commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

Youth Jobs Connect, a technology-based nonprofit, was founded in response to the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and a current inequitable workforce system that has excluded many young people, namely Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (QTBIPOC). This guest blog post by the organization’s founder and CEO Mitali Chakraborty details five ways employers can engage all youth in a post pandemic new economy.

Greenhouse is a communications agency with a mission to power positive change. In this guest blog post with Green 2.0, Joe Dillon and Gabriella Smith from Greenhouse Communications discuss the agency’s work in the U.K. environmental sector and how to better address the climate crisis in advance of next month’s 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). Last spring Greenhouse featured Green 2.0 Executive Director Andres Jimenez in a profile on green pioneers.

Green 2.0 Communications Manager Raviya Ismail discusses the release of Tracking Diversity: The Green 2.0 Guide to Best Practices in Demographic Data Collection (Tracking Diversity Guide) with her colleague Andy Beahrs, Grants Manager.