Financial Support to Others

Anderson Mason Dale Architects has a long history of supporting underserved communities, both financially and pro-bono architectural and educational services. Investments have historically focused on providing access to community education opportunities, with a particular focus on children within underserved Front Range communities.

These investments provide critical resources and infrastructure for art programs, library facilities, and after-school programming. We endeavor to build on this ethic of investment by first researching our past contributions and attempting to codify targets and benchmarks for yearly contributions, and by broadening our investment lens to consider additional operating expenses as opportunities to support underserved communities and businesses.

End of Year Contributions

Establish a strategy for end of year contributions.

• Document past contributions and establish financial benchmarks for future contributions.

• Establish clear guidelines for the types of organizations these contributions will support.

• Find an appropriate way to share this financial support with staff and the broader community. It is important to remember all aspects of our EDI plan will become part of AMD’s inclusive culture and, by extension, an important part of recruitment and retention of a diverse staff.

Service Contracts

Target a 20% increase in expense purchases made from minorityowned vendors

• Research past expense purchase distribution to establish a benchmark.

• Target a 20% increase in expense purchases made from minority-owned vendors, including but not limited to: the purchase of food / beverage, landscape services, MEP services, cleaning services and other specialty vendors.

• Review operating expenses annually to ensure target was achieved and/or is achievable moving forward.

• Promote partners through our external platforms.

18.3% minortiyowned

19.9% womenowned

According to the 2019 Annual Business Survey (ABS), covering reference year 2018, approximately 18.3% (1.0 million) of all U.S. businesses were minorityowned and about 19.9% (1.1 million) of all businesses were owned by women.

Pro-bono Work

Build upon historic support of non-profit institutions.

• Document pro-bono work from past years

• Document ways we have generously served nonprofit institutional guidelines.

• Develop promotional content for pro-bono efforts.

• Highlight pro-bono work and promote organizations we support on our website and social media.