Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Work Environments

VBSR Virtual Workshop: Creating LGBTQ+ Inclusive Work Environments

Event Details:
When: April 13, 2021 1:00 pm – April 20, 2021 3:00 pm
Location: Virtual Workshop

Cost To Attend:
Nonmembers – $60
VBSR Members – $40

Registration is open

Event hosted by: VBSR

 

This workshop will be offered on two dates – each workshop will be limited to 50 participants:

 

Join VBSR and Outright Vermont for an interactive workshop will help employees and managers at all levels to increase fluency with LGBTQ+ inclusive concepts, terminology, and practices. Participants will learn and practice approaches for making work environments affirming and supportive for people of all genders and sexual identities. Participants will identify specific opportunities for and challenges to inclusivity. Participants will leave with broader knowledge of LGBTQ+ topics, methods for recognizing gaps in inclusivity, and ideas for how to apply affirming practices to fill those gaps.

 

This workshop will take place virtually and is open to VBSR members and non-members alike. The workshop will take place virtually, and the details to join the workshop will be sent via email to all who register, in advance of the event.

 

We will be offering this workshop on two dates – each workshop will be limited to 50 participants:

 

Questions? Please reach out to VBSR Education & Events Manager, Carra Cheslin, at carrac@vbsr.org

 

Thank you to our JEDI Learning Community Sponsors:

 

 

White + Burke

Strengthening communities for more than 30 years. White + Burke creates healthy, productive, and profitable spaces for Vermonters to live, play, and work. Whether consulting on a new commercial development project, providing strategic analysis of a real estate portfolio, structuring a public-private partnership, or seeking a new location, we provide in-depth, objective, strategic advice and action to businesses, property owners, institutions, and municipalities. We are an outsourced real estate department – here when you need us and costing nothing when you don’t.

 

 

Dealer.com

For over 20 years, Dealer.com has been committed to creating cutting-edge solutions for our clients while investing in our people and our local communities. From volunteerism to environmentalism, we are continuously building connections with our team members, our clients, and our neighbors.

 

 

Mascoma Bank

Mascoma Bank was founded in 1899 by community members seeking ways to establish a healthy local economy. For over 120 years, Mascoma Bank’s foundation of mutuality has continued to be a force for positive change supporting communities to reach thriving sustainability. As a Certified B Corporation® we continue on our mission to be Best for the World®, a company where we don’t answer to stockholders, but respond to the needs of our communities, where we also live, work, and play.

 

 

King Arthur Baking Company

 

Baking with joy since 1790.
We’re an employee-owned company, every one of us bakers at heart. And for generations, we’ve been there with you as you bake. Our mission is to be the ultimate resource and inspiration in the kitchen, to inspire connections and community through baking, and to use our business as a force for good.

 

 

 

 

Vermont Gas

 

Safe, clean, affordable and reliable energy choices.

We are northwest Vermont’s integrated energy services company. We offer customers clean, affordable and reliable thermal energy service, award-winning energy efficiency programs, home and business energy equipment service and maintenance, and a first-in-the-nation renewable option for families and businesses.

 

 

City Market

City Market/Onion River Co-Op is Burlington’s community-owned grocery store with over 12,000 members and locations Downtown and in the South End. Guided by their Global Ends and the Co-op Principles of “strengthening the local food system” and “concern for community”, City Market seeks to ensure that consumers have local access to progressive environmental, social, and healthful choices at affordable prices.