Resources for Hiring Youth

  • The Denver Office of Economic Development
  • Engaging Youth: A How-To Guide for Creating Opportunities for Young People to Participate, Lead and Succeed – published by the Sierra Health Foundation
  • Other Organizations Who Employ Youth & Young Adults - Consider contacting organizations with similar missions and focuses for cross-promotion of opportunities. A few examples in Colorado include:

- Metro University and CU-Denver Career Centers
- CityWild
- Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK)
- South Platte River Environmental Education
- Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
- Big City Mountaineers
- Outward Bound
- NOLS
- Colorado Youth Corps Association and local Youth Corps organizations across the state

- Avid4 Adventure 

 

Resources for Promoting Inclusiveness and Diversity

  • The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project
  • CSU Extension – Workforce Diversity – includes strategies, techniques and resources for attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.
  • Where to Advertise to Attract Underrepresented Professionals (CSU Extension)
  • Inside Inclusiveness: Race, Ethnicity, and Nonprofit Organizations - A research report on nonprofit organizations in Metro Denver; best practices and barriers, from The Denver Foundation
  • Diversifying the Conservation Movement - A Land Trust Alliance special report
  • The 10Cs: A Model of Diversity Awareness and Social Change