Foundation News Archives: September 2020
Sep 28, 2020
As part of our effort to better align our investments with our mission, the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation is committed to engaging in shareholder resolutions that encourage companies to strengthen or adopt new policies and practices to improve environmental quality. In November 2019, for...Read more >
Sep 10, 2020
Nigel Golden was a co-author on a new peer-reviewed article that argues that efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the geosciences must be rooted in a common understanding of the role of harm and justice in the field's vision of diversity. The authors provide three principles and a set of recommendations that are widely applicable and relevant to the cultural and historical specificities of the field.Read more >
Sep 1, 2020
2020 has been a year of awakening; exposing the pervasiveness of inequity and codified discrimination in our nation and world. As our nation begins to reckon with its newfound understanding of injustice, its institutions have often placed the burden of diversifying and fostering equitable and...Read more >
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