Our Work

The Pipeline Project works to achieve significantly increased levels of diversity within LGBT advocacy and service organizations and in the leadership of those organizations with programs that focus on:

• Recruitment and retention of diverse talent for LGBT organizations
• Mechanisms, programs and strategies to advance people of color
  to ever-greater leadership positions within LGBT organizations
• Strategies to both prepare LGBT organizations for and invest them
  in significant levels of diversity and inclusion

Our Focus

The Pipeline Project focuses on four steps to achieve its greater goals:

• Priming the Pump

  By recruiting new, diverse talent to work for and with LGBT organizations at staff and Board levels we are infusing the LGBT Movement with young and experienced talent and strenthening organizations. We’re doing this through ever-expanding relationships with colleges, universities, employee resource groups, and other pools of likely recruits, as well as targeted research.

• Organizational Preparation for and Management of Diversity & Inclusion

  Offering curriculum-based and individually-tailored strategies to assist organizations in guided organizational change that leads them to the goal “inclusiveness” versus simple “diversity.” Following up structured sessions with Executive Directors, Management Teams and Boards with with scheduled follow-up and on-call support and coaching, we are helping organizations increase their capacity to both benefit more effectively from diverse talent and retain that talent.

• People of Color Advancement within LGBT Organizations

  Providing a comprehensive agenda of programs and services that stems the attrition of key talent from the Movement and deepens their commitment to it. Our programs also ensure appropriate and timely advancement for that talent.

• Outreach to Key Movement Investors

  Using existing opportunities and creating new ones to publicize our work enables us to create an ever-larger group of Movement investors working collaboratively to achieve a more dynamic, diverse, successful, and impactful LGBT Movement.