Our goal is to foster an inclusive community across the environmental nonprofit sector. We seek to facilitate cross-pollination of organizations and projects, germinate new leaders, and include new people in the environmental community.  

We named ourselves after the term “web of inclusion,” first defined in Sally Helgesen’s book, The Female Advantage. It describes a way of structuring an organization in a circular way, rather than a top down hierarchy. This is how we run our group and also the structure model we hope to bring to the sector. Here is a synopsis of how this works in practice:

• The web creates a organic and adaptable structure which places leadership in the middle of a community rather than the top. 
• Helps to value all members, rather than valuing title or position, and allows us to utilize all members more effectively. 
• Power is created by sharing information, rather than hoarding it.
• This empowers frontline volunteers because leaders gain strength by sharing knowledge with the frontline. Similarly, leaders seek to learn from the frontline so they have new knowledge to share elsewhere.

Join us if you are interested in exploring the sector as a whole and identifying interconnections and the spaces in between.