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Causes: Business & Industry
Mission: The national utilities diversity council conducts research to educate, develop best practices and guide efforts that will promote diversity in the utilities and communications industries in the areas of governance, employment, procurement, language access/customer service, and philanthropy.
Programs: Diversity conference & reception - annual national conference brings together leaders to discuss current state of diversity, both workforce and supplier diversity; exploration of trends and activities to encourage diversity. Reception is an independent event, that invites diversity leaders from regulation, corporation, small business and associations to come together in a smaller group to explore additional programmatic activities to invigorate diversity.
web toolkit and webinars - on-line web tools that disseminate information and provides on-going education to aid in strengthening diversity efforts. These tools are made available to the public free of charge.
program travel and outward facing communications - travel for the executive director, board members (who are speakers), and other key constituents to attend national meetings and conferences to represent nudc programmatic efforts and to bring awareness of nudc programs to key utility providers. Research (through paid consultants) to develop concepts and information for deployment across web and conference related outward facing communications.