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Inspire and Equip our Members to Achieve their Bold DEI Goals

How does Vibrant Pittsburgh help businesses build diversity, equity, and inclusion? Our approach involves facilitating intentional connections and convenings around DEI to change the conversation, and to ensure that ideas move into action through the application of sustained, layered learning.

Lunch and Learns

Members have access to monthly Lunch and Learns that bring together members and their staff from across industry and sector in an informal, interactive, and virtual atmosphere to collaborate and deepen knowledge on important DEI topics.

Resilience Through Equity Series – RTES

This bimonthly webinar series is an opportunity for Vibrant Pittsburgh to highlight and tackle critical opportunities to improve the practices, policies, and cultures of organizations in the Pittsburgh region, increasing the impact of our collective DE&I efforts. It focuses on the 9 categories from the Vibrant Index Criteria. RTES connects you to expertise in the region and beyond.

Vibrant Book Discussions

Vibrant Pittsburgh hosts private book discussions utilizing diversity, equity, and inclusion focused books. Members can expect focused, engaging and constructive discussions.

Customized Training & Development

We provide organizations and their staff with private DEI training, as well as a blueprint for developing a more diverse and inclusive company culture.

DEI Climate Surveys

Vibrant Pittsburgh assists organizations in taking the pulse of their workplace, creating and facilitating DEI climate surveys to better understand how employees view and understand DEI and how DEI work can best impact organizational culture.

For more information about our suite of education and learning solutions, contact Allegra Elson, Director of Training and Development.

Talent Engagement and Connection

Vibrant Pittsburgh works with employers, colleges and universities, and diverse community groups to organize, promote and implement efforts designed to welcome, engage, retain, and elevate diverse talent. This work includes:

Allegheny Allies

Allegheny Allies is a regional affinity group with the mission of promoting a diverse and robust Greater Pittsburgh region through fostering fellowship, belonging, and professional development of diverse employees and their allies in small to midsize Vibrant Pittsburgh member organizations. Allegheny Allies is unique in its ability to connect employees across industry and sector, mitigating silos through cross organizational pollination. Allegheny Allies supports the development of diverse employees at a regional level—especially those at organizations that may lack resources for Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Allegheny Allies invites members from all affinity groups, encouraging talent to show up as their full, authentic selves without the need to put their identity into a single box. For more information, contact Sabrina Bogus, Director of Membership Development and Engagement.

Next Generation Council

The Next Generation Council was created to engage millennial leaders in the retention work happening in the Pittsburgh region, with the goal of gaining better insight into what young professionals think about the region and what impacts their desire and ability to stay in the region. As the millennial generation is diverse and highly mobile, their decision to stay in or leave our region will make a significant impact on our population growth and economic vitality over the next 20 years. Council participation is limited to member organizations. For more information, contact Sabrina Bogus, Director of Membership Development and Engagement.

Greater Pittsburgh D&I Forum

The D&I Forum gathers Pittsburgh-based Chief Diversity Officers and other leaders responsible for driving organizational DEI to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion as a strategic imperative. The D&I Forum acts as a voice to influence positive change, as a disseminator of promising DEI practices, and as a platform for the promotion of workplace DEI. Forum participation is open to Vibrant Pittsburgh member organizations. For more information, contact Derrick Shoffner, Sr. Director of Programs and Services.

CEO Vision Breakfast

The annual CEO Vision Breakfast convenes regional leaders who are ready to create solutions that will cement Pittsburgh as a destination of opportunity and of choice for people of all backgrounds. This exclusive event engages top regional leadership to ensure that organizations sustain their efforts to realize equitable and inclusive workplace cultures. For more information, contact Derrick Shoffner, Sr. Director of Programs and Services.

Executive Dine Arounds

Executive Dine Arounds assist newcomer executives of color in making the connections that retain them in the region. Dine Arounds are fun, relaxing events designed to provide newcomers and their spouses or partners with an opportunity to connect with their peers in a stress-free environment. These gatherings typically occur in the homes of local executive hosts and include not only a diversity of newcomers but also local long-time residents. Dine Arounds create opportunities for executive newcomers to build crucial connections to easily and successfully settle into friendships and social and professional networks.For more information, contact Derrick Shoffner, Sr. Director of Programs and Services

Vibrant Pittsburgh Talent Community

Vibrant Pittsburgh amplifies member job opportunities in the region to our 2500+ job seekers through our Job Board and the Jobsburgh Talent Newsletter. Through multiple touchpoints with diverse constituencies, we ensure that key positions are amplified, available, and accessible to talent of color in the region and beyond. For more information, contact Sabrina Bogus, Director of Membership Development and Engagement

Pittsburgh Regional EBRG Council

A quarterly convening of the leaders and sponsors of our member’s Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRGs), The EBRG Council connects EBRGs in the region to disseminate promising practices and support EBRG leaders within our membership. For more information, contact Sabrina Bogus, Director of Membership Development and Engagement

Data and Insights

Vibrant Pittsburgh partners with its members and the region to deliver insights that drive economic development that’s based in equity, inclusion, and belonging.

The Vibrant Index

The Vibrant Index was established in 2019 to inspire organizations in the Pittsburgh region to utilize best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Each of the practices surveyed in the Vibrant Index are supported by research in the field of DEI. The Vibrant Index process is free to all organizations in the greater Pittsburgh region, and assists organizations identifying DEI strengths as well as areas for continual improvement. Participating organizations are encouraged to connect with Vibrant Pittsburgh to further explore strategies and practices to advance future DEI efforts. For more information, contact Derrick Shoffner, Sr. Director of Programs and Services

Advocacy and Leadership

Vibrant Pittsburgh supports and amplifies efforts in the greater Pittsburgh community, including:

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