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Subject: How Foundations Can Reassure Grantees They Have Their Backs (Opinion)
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s charity will continue its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts even as Zuckerberg’s Meta social media company abandons them, a top executive at the charity has told worried employees. Although the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has sometimes echoed organizational shifts first made at Meta, “Meta and CZI are and will remain separate organizations with entirely different and independent commitments. … Like in this case, Meta’s changes to its DEI efforts does not impact ours,” the charity’s head of human resources told other executives and managers in a Slack group. CZI’s website says it brings a “diversity, equity, and inclusion lens” to its philanthropic work. (Guardian)
Plus: Right-Wing Group Publishes ‘DEI Watch List’ Targeting Federal Workers (New York Times)
Elon Musk’s plan to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development would abandon conservation programs around the world that have protected wildlife and given locals an alternative to criminal activity. A national park in Colombia employs former guerrillas as guides. In a park in Mozambique, USAID has trained hundreds of rangers and brought wild animals back to an area devastated by civil war. An American philanthropist and entrepreneur who supports the Mozambique project noted that U.S. development aid has helped combat “four international criminal enterprises that are closely entwined: human trafficking, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and exotic wildlife trafficking.” (New York Times)
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