Edict | Empowering Diversity in Clean Tech has a new home + one quick ask

Congratulations for making it through 2020, everyone. I’m claiming it!  

And thank you, everyone, for your continued commitment to Edict's mission to bring measurable progress in diversity and inclusion to clean tech. Many of you have responded with ideas for connections and resources. Thank you for being an enthusiastic part of this effort! 

We envision this to be a community of practice
Your response to our launch this past summer has fueled our dedication this past fall to finding a home for this movement that can catalyze Edict into a community of practice where we will take action together, support each other on implementation, and track progress along the way. 

Our vision is for this to be a fully functioning community of practice for our companies to share information and build on each others’ knowledge as we operationalize what it takes to build a diverse workforce at our startups.  

Edict’s new home: Elemental Excelerator
While we’re still looking for funding partners so that we can staff this effort, we have news to share with more info to come in the new year! In partnership with Elemental Excelerator, through their Equity & Access track, we will move forward with Edict as a new community of practice for any 'climate-tech company' working across energy, food/ag, mobility, water, and circular economy. The mission of Elemental's Equity & Access track is to leverage climate startups for social equity and we're excited to operationalize this through this new initiative.

One small ask: Can you host an intern next year?
As with all things, Edict will continue to evolve. Pending funding for staff, our first initiative will be in partnership with the Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) internship placement in 2021. Through this program,CELI will recruit and provide cohort support, mentorship, and clean energy training to prospective interns throughout their placement. More on this soon.

In the meantime, we’re assembling a list of companies to help us in our funding conversations. Our goals:

1. Hire a full-time staff member through CELI to support all of our committed companies through this journey; If you're able to connect us to someone who might be interested in funding this work next year, please let us know here. 
2. Place interns in meaningful working experiences; If you’re ready and able to host (and pay) an intern next year, please let us know here.

 We’ll follow up with more in the new year. 

Hope this winter holiday allows time to rest & re-energize,
Devin & the Elemental team