Advancing Equity Through Ongoing Commitments
On this path towards creating sustainable communities where everyone has access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive, Sustainable Jersey is committed to the following:
- Developing, implementing and promoting actions that reduce barriers to opportunity and improve access to resources in the municipal and school certification programs.
- Strengthening ongoing efforts to offer targeted outreach and technical support to low-and-moderate-income and distressed municipalities and schools on registration, certification, and grant competitions in our program.
- Increasing representation of diverse points of view and experience on the Board, Certification Standards Committee, and task forces and promoting the same on municipal and school green teams and regional hubs.
- Increasing representation of diverse points of view and experience on the staff by enhanced recruitment through existing networks such as New Jersey student and professional associations, as well as historically black colleges and universities and other national associations.
- Through collaborative projects and consultation, expanding partnerships with community-based and statewide organizations which focus on reducing barriers to resource access and opportunity.
- Hosting equity-related programming for staff, municipalities, schools, hubs, Board and Task Forces.
We will hold ourselves accountable to these goals and chart our course in a spirit of humility, willing and prepared to challenge ourselves and our assumptions, to learn as we go, and to change -- as individuals, as an organization, and as members of a sustainability movement committed to realizing a future of environmental and social equity for all.