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Meet the 2024 Bluecoats Fellows
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Meet the 2024 Bluecoats Fellows

The Bluecoats Fellowship aims to create a pathway to a more diverse and inclusive world in the marching arts. Bluecoats Fellows are individuals who are a part of, or are committed to supporting, traditionally under-represented communities in marching arts design, and are selected by demonstrating excellent skill and potential in their field. Fellows are paired with the Bluecoats designer in their field to grow their skills, receive advice and guidance on their work, and learn from a renowned world-class designer.

Today, we’re excited to introduce the second class of Bluecoats Fellows! Find out more about them below.

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2021 Diversity & Socioeconomic Impact Report
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2021 Diversity & Socioeconomic Impact Report

In July 2020, we promised to create an annual report on the demographic and socioeconomic impact of Bluecoats programs, the diversity of our team, and the progress of our initiatives to advance inclusion and equity within our organization.

This is our second year of building this report—you can view last year’s inaugural report here. Reflecting on these data annually allows us a concrete and ongoing opportunity to reflect on our programming and the ways in which we’d like to see it grow in our pursuit to build a more inclusive and equitable culture. As we take steps to advance this culture, sharing this demographic data helps us to create a culture of transparency and, we hope, this report increases people’s understanding of the reasons the steps we are taking are so necessary.

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2020 Diversity & Socioeconomic Impact Report
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2020 Diversity & Socioeconomic Impact Report

As we plan a future for the Bluecoats organization, we must work to ensure that the Bluecoats Experience, and all of our performing art programming, reach both more people and a more diverse array of communities. Today we’re publishing our inaugural Diversity & Socioeconomic Impact Report, which provides an important snapshot of our “starting point” as we set out to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in our programs as well as our staff. As promised in July, our goal is to compile a report like this annually.

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Policy Task Force Completes Review Of Corporate Policy
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Policy Task Force Completes Review Of Corporate Policy

Recently the Policy Task Force of the Bluecoats Executive Committee completed a periodic review of corporate policy, particularly several youth protection and health, wellness & safety policies. On January 19th, the Board of Directors adopted these revised policies with this resolution.

We have made a list of several of these policies publicly available at bluecoats.com/policies. It includes the newly adopted Anti-Racism Policy, drafted in collaboration with the Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council.

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Bluecoats Adopts Anti-Racism Policy, Bans Hate Groups & Symbols

Bluecoats Adopts Anti-Racism Policy, Bans Hate Groups & Symbols

In the last eleven months, we have been reminded of the grip of systemic and individual racism on our society and in our communities. In May, we committed to not simply disavowing racism, but to advancing an antiracist culture in the Bluecoats Community, and to taking active steps to making our organization a better place. Since then, our Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council has been working on these measures. Recently, this council worked together with the Policy Task Force of our Executive Committee to develop an Anti-Racism Policy that cements our commitment to this idea at the highest level of governance in our organization.

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