Commit to equity in your hiring, partnerships, and reinvestment strategies. CIF offers training to help you implement real change.
Support minority-owned businesses, cannabis brands, and demand transparency in corporate equity initiatives
At CIF, we’re working to dismantle systemic barriers by educating, training and creating tangible, SMART goals for equitable business practices. But we can’t do it alone.
Here’s how it works:
This setup is a light lift for Dutchie and costs the retailers, who are being squeezed by excess taxes and fees, nothing! It captures and combines true people power. A minuscule donation by many can have a massive impact on people and progress!
It is rough out here for nonprofits. Many of us are fighting for pieces of the same pie, pleading our cases daily to secure operational and programmatic capital while also doing the work. In 2020, things were different. In the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, businesses and corporations were actively seeking organizations and community reinvestment opportunities to support and align with. Now, the dust has settled. The terms DEI and equity in general don’t have the same ring to them. However, there are still a few businesses that prioritize these values and have found creative ways to uphold them. Dutchie is one of those businesses.
The Cannabis Impact Fund launched in 2020. To date, we are the only organization of our kind. We train and educate cannabis businesses on best practices for incorporating racial equity by offering:
– Our award-winning Anti-Racism Guide.
– Our Live and Digital Racial Equity (AR Modules) Training.
– The Racial Equity Self-Assessment for Cannabis Businesses.
Poses questions in 5 key areas, generates a score for each area and a composite score. Packages include options for a general action report or custom CDG follow-up consultation.
Designed for larger groups. 5 pre-recorded, downloadable modules which includes: companion slides, quizzes after each module and a terms/definitions sheet.
Personalized support of committee development, internal anti-racist strategy, and CSR development including; budgeting and community partnership.
Facilitated 3 hour training for 15-20 team members, conducted via Zoom. Includes a workshop of your choice at the end of the training.
Of people arrested for drug law violations are Black or Latino despite making up just 31.5% of the U.S. population.
Black Americans are 6X more likely to be arrested for drug use than White Americans although both races use drugs at similar rates.
Of dispensary owners are white. By contrast, only 4.3% of Cannabis Business owners are African American or Latino.
It is rough out here for nonprofits. Many of us are fighting for pieces of the same pie, pleading our cases daily to secure operational and programmatic capital while also doing the work. In 2020, things were different. In the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, businesses and corporations were actively seeking organizations and community reinvestment opportunities to support and align with. Now, the dust has settled. The terms DEI and equity in general don’t have the same ring to them. However, there are still a few businesses that prioritize these values and have found creative ways to uphold them. Dutchie is one of those businesses.
The only way we get somewhere in the cannabis industry and beyond is through being honest about where things are, why it is the case, and intentionally moving to change it. Specifically, with cannabis, we have the opportunity of a lifetime to create an equitable space. This is what CIF is all about.
Sensible Colorado played a key role in the passage of Amendment 64 and, recognizing ongoing challenges in equity and community outreach, saw sponsoring Cannabis Impact Fund as a natural next step. Together with Sensible and Vicente Sederberg, they aim to achieve remarkable things.
leader@cannabisimpactfund.org
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