The Chesapeake Bay Trust in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network and DEIJ experts in the region’s environmental coalitions, engaged ThirdSpace Action Lab (TSAL) to design and implement a Racial Equity and Inclusion (REI) learning series for funder and nonprofit participants.

Given the reality of the watershed’s history as well as the broader history and present sociopolitical context of the country, the partnership group hopes to leverage a robust and extended learning series to build relationships among funders and advocates to advance racial equity in the Chesapeake Bay’s environmental and water movements.

The objectives for this series include three categories: 1) relationship- and trust- building, 2) internalizing and applying a systemic racial equity analysis, and 3) exploring philanthropic system shifting interventions. While this training series is not a strategic planning process, TSAL will facilitate a design-thinking activity with all participants near the conclusion of the series to help participants undertake action planning within their own organizations and, hopefully, in collaboration with each other.

To learn more about this series, please contact Caroline Selle at caroline@chesbayfunders.org.