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Commitment to Anti-racism

earthday365 ABAR Committee Purpose Statement

The ABAR (anti-bias, anti-racism) committee consists of representatives of earthday365 staff, Board of Directors, and Young Friends committed to taking a leadership and advisory role in ensuring that the organizational structures, activities, and community interactions develop anti-racist culture within the organization.

We will do this by:

  • Holding regularly scheduled meetings
  • Actively engage with personal anti-racism education to build professional capacity to:
    • Create on-going anti-racism professional development for staff, board, and Young Friends
    • Develop ideas and strategies for creating a welcoming workplace environment that promotes authentic relationship building
    • Arrange formal/informal events that create a greater sense of belonging for all
    • Identify issues and set goals and expectations to address them for the organization and individuals
  • Establish and maintain a restorative justice circle to provide accountability for D.E.I. issues
  • Monitor and evaluate progress

earthday365 Request for Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias Training Proposals

earthday365 is accepting written proposals for a consultant who specializes in helping organizations make their work more inclusive of all communities by engendering a culture of Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias (ABAR). The ABAR consultant will work with the earthday365 Staff, ABAR committee, Board of Directors, and Young Friends of earthday365 to create a roadmap of next steps to help earthday365 further integrate ABAR principles into its culture and operations and enable it to fully support equity within the environmental movement.

This will involve conducting a variety of activities including, but not limited to, facilitating conversations within our organization; become familiar with the environmental justice landscape in St. Louis; managing diverse viewpoints while helping to set bold goals; and creating tools to be delivered to us as an organization. This request for proposals (RFP) describes the scope of work and the nature of the services required, reports or other items to be delivered under the contract, and the format to be used in response to the RFP. Additional information about earthday365 can be found at: https://earthday-365.org/

All proposals will be submitted via email to:

Dr. Jessica Watson
Executive Director
earthday365
director@earthday-365.org

More Information

Approved by ABAR committee 8/5/2022:
Bob Henkel, Joyce Gorrell, Lisa Johnson, Elizabeth Sabetta, Janessa Williams, Charles Bryson

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