Green 2.0

Happy New Year from the Green 2.0 team! Your support made 2024 unforgettable, and we’re grateful to our partners, friends, and allies who continue to champion our mission. As we step into 2025, we stay steadfast in our role as an accountability partner championing the environmental sector’s commitment to an equitable movement. Thank you for being a part of this journey. We’re excited for the work we will accomplish together in the year ahead!

Green 2.0 Wrapped is here! We're reflecting on this year by highlighting a few major moments, from incredible events to informative reports and staff favorites. This year: 🌱 We held 9 events with over 1,750 attendees 🌱 We hosted 6 fellows 🌱 We shared 5 spotlights and 15 blog posts 🌱 We have over 275 experts featured in our Database And a lot more! Although we've encapsulated our year through numbers, 2024 was much more than that. It cemented deep-rooted commitments to justice, hopes passed on with each generation and reminders to take care of ourselves and each other 💚. Thank you for being part of the Green 2.0 community! 

When did you feel like you belonged in the environmental movement? 🌿💚 At our 10th Anniversary Celebration, we asked Ki'Ana Speights, M.A. of American Public Health Association and Hanna Lester of The Pew Charitable Trusts how they've navigated finding and building spaces of belonging. We all deserve to be affirmed, celebrated, and seen in our workplaces. Programs like the RAY Fellowship Program and Black Girl Environmentalist’s fellowship are foundational solutions to this gap. As Ki'Ana points out, sometimes "the only way to feel included is to create our own spaces". Music from #Uppbeat: https://lnkd.in/efAduVFQ License code: TOJZNHTS2DG0JE76

It's our last job board post for 2024! This week, explore career opportunities from Center for Biological Diversity, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Ocean Conservancy, and many more at diversegreen.org/careers. We look forward to sharing more opportunities in 2025!

Earlier this month, Green 2.0 released the 2024 Transparency Report, which examines key demographic data and equity indicators from NGOs and foundations in the environmental movement. If you missed the release event, catch it on our site and watch environmental leaders discuss the report’s findings, as well as opportunities and challenges for advancing equity. WATCH HERE: https://lnkd.in/eCVutyzH

Our newest #PayEquityPledge participant is Charles River Watershed Association! We are excited to welcome them to our cohort of 50+ organizations working towards pay equity in the environmental sector. Learn more about the pledge at https://lnkd.in/e56R8CtG

Congrats to Green 2.0 Leadership Awardees 💚🌟 🏅Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., HipHopCaucus 🏅Angelo Villagomez, Center for American Progress 🏅Marilyn Zepeda Salazar, House Committee on Natural Resources Democrats 🏅Ki'Ana Speights, M.A. American Public Health Association These champions were honored at our 10 year anniversary for their commitment to an equitable environmental movement.

Foundations giving to Native causes remains less than 1% of total philanthropy, and Native Americans make up just 0.8% of foundation board members. Read First Nations Development Institute's two recently published reports to learn more: 🔗 Native Americans and Board Representation on America’s Largest Foundations: https://bit.ly/41CoZ31 🔗 On the Matter of Foundation Giving: https://bit.ly/4fmBpyU

New episode of The Green 2.0 Movement is streaming now! In this episode, Adriane Alicea sits down with Jerry Otero, Co-Lead for Priorities, Projects, and Campaigns Workgroup at the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, and the Policy Director at the Grand Canyon Trust. They discuss how the coalition aims to achieve ambitious conservation goals that protect our lands and oceans including 30x30, what it means to build consensus, and how we can work together through environmental challenges. Listen to the full episode at https://lnkd.in/efr4U5gW or on your favorite podcast platform.

Our 2024 Transparency Report is here. This year's report data reveals progress towards a more equitable environmental sector has not only stalled, it’s reversing. Equity is essential for a powerful and effective environmental movement! "The Green 2.0 Transparency Report indicates that environmental organizations need to do more...We can't think of saving the planet and its people when the majority of the people who are represented in the organizations do not come from marginalized communities." — Isaias Hernandez, Queer Brown Vegan Learn more about this year's report by visiting https://bit.ly/2024-TR.