Seek Partnerships and Collaborations. We need to seek strategic alliances both within and outside the organization. Within the organization, we will need to work together to share information, efforts, and lessons learned about diversifying while more efficiently using resources and keeping costs down. Collaborating with each other on our diversity efforts is essential so we can move forward synergistically and grow exponentially. Most importantly, these partnerships need to be based on equity, meaning all parties equally share resources, power, and decision-making responsibilities. Expanding our list of partners will extend our reach, improve our understanding, and ensure our relevance.

Engage Young People. Working along the educational pipeline by providing experiences for young people from infancy to graduate-school age is essential to achieving a diverse environmental community for generations to come. How we engage young people today will have significant effects far into the future, since many of these same people will be our environmental leaders. Providing opportunities for youth to exercise leadership skills and voice their opinions is an effective way to engage young people.

Connect the Generations. We need to unify the generations that are currently working within our organization. Experiences, wisdom, and lessons learned need to be passed from one generation to the next if we are to build upon the progress already made.