Houston Audubon is a nonprofit conservation organization focusing on protecting the natural environment for birds and people since 1969. We envision a healthy, thriving Houston Gulf Coast natural environment by leading and nurturing a diverse community that values and supports birds. Our mission and vision can only be achieved when we engage, support, and serve individuals and communities that reflect the diversity of our state and region. This longstanding celebration of diversity in nature fuels an even greater understanding of the beauty and importance of working and recreating alongside individuals of widely diverse backgrounds, experiences, and identities.
Houston Audubon is committed to fostering and nurturing an organizational culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and sanctuaries, and in our work in the community. We believe that the rich blend of ideas, perspectives, and viewpoints that come with diversity are essential to our long-term success. Our 2023-2033 Strategic Framework reflects our commitment to DEIB within our organization, at our sanctuaries, and in the community at large.
What Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging mean to Houston Audubon:
Diversity is the presence of human variation, social identities, and social group differences that include but are not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual identity and socioeconomic status.
Equity refers to fair and just practices and policies that acknowledge and address inequalities that advantage some and disadvantage others.
Inclusion is proactively valuing, respecting, and supporting all people and perspectives in order to enable, encourage and benefit from their full participation.
Belonging is the feeling that people experience when their identity, diverse characteristics, and unique needs are seen, acknowledged, and respected. People experience belonging in spaces where they feel empowered to be authentic. This results from our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
