Intertwine Alliance Equity & Inclusion Cohorts engage organizations in an ongoing learning community focused on dismantling institutional racism in our sector. The goal is to build capacity and to bring equity work to scale across a broad and diverse array of organizations through an ongoing peer-learning and support platform.
2024 Cohorts
February through September 2024
We are excited to have finished up our sixth year of Intertwine Alliance Equity & Inclusion Cohorts. This program supports environmental organizations in developing interpersonal and organizational antiracist mindsets and actions. Through three simultaneous cohorts, this eight-month program uses a community-of-practice model in which each organization will receive both peer-to-peer and diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) specialist coaching to foster more inclusive environmental practices and advance equitable access to nature throughout The Intertwine region.
The 2024 cohorts will be the last round of cohorts for the next two years. With 71 different organizations and 295 people having participated in the cohort program out of our ~80-partner coalition, it is time to evolve what the program brings to the coalition. During the hiatus, The Intertwine Alliance and Equity Cohort Facilitators DRC Learning Solutions and Capacity Building Partnerships will reevaluate and restructure the program to meet the coalition’s new challenges and needs.
This year's cohorts:
- Change Agent
- Intergovernmental
- BIPOC Leadership Peer Group
Click here for cohort descriptions and costs.
Thank you to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation and Columbia Bank for funding this important work through the years.
Info about past years' cohorts:
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018