DEI United Collaborative

2020 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

DEI United

In our second major collaboration United Way of Central New Mexico and the Foundation partnered through the DEI United Collaborative. The Collaborative was created to support, promote and advance diversity, equity and inclusion practices within our organizations and the nonprofit sector to explore the future of philanthropy.

The Collaborative supports training, education and funding for community leaders and decision-makers across sectors to strengthen their actions when it comes to embedding more equitable practices within their organizations.

These trainings will also create leadership pathways and explore systemic barriers for people of color to achieve leadership roles in the philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, where today they are greatly underrepresented. Eventually, there will be a role for public policy and advocacy for communities to address equity issues across fundamental sectors in our state such as education, healthcare, the economy and many others.

In October, we completed the cornerstone of the Collaborative—a series of “kitchen table” style community conversations to discuss how United Way and the Foundation can better contribute to race, equity and social justice within the philanthropic sector. These conversations gathered our nonprofit partners and community members whose voices and aspirations are not always heard when it comes to the community—our community. Read the results from pages 21-24.

Community involvement was a key component to the solutions including: nonprofit, minorities, community leaders, donors, government, educational leaders, neighborhood associations, business owners and the chambers of commerce, and youth.