Our Commitment to Community & Belonging

Our communities thrive when we all feel a sense of belonging and support to pursue our aspirations. However, systemic inequities in our educational systems have historically excluded many students from pathways that lead to success. Many higher education institutions were originally designed to serve only a select group, leaving countless talented, driven individuals without the resources and encouragement they deserve.

At Bottom Line, we work to bridge this gap, advancing educational equity by aiding students who possess limitless potential. Together, we can build a stronger, more inclusive world where everyone has the opportunity to prosper and achieve their dreams.

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Empowering All Voices

We actively create, recognize, celebrate, and value our diversity. We are strengthened by the collective similarities and differences of our students, staff, and other community partners. We embrace all the characteristics and perspectives that make individuals or groups distinct. Our actions around diversity include, but are not limited to:

Ensuring that our students can see themselves in the identities of our staff at all levels of the organization.
Working to make sure that those of us who have personally faced educational inequity are partnering in ongoing efforts to shape the direction of our organization.
Establishing policies and practices to secure vendors, suppliers, and partners that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Equitable Access and Support for All

We define equity as recognizing the unique needs of each individual and ensuring that all can access the same opportunities with differentiated supports; removing the predictability of success or failure correlated with any financial, social, or cultural factor used to marginalize or oppress individuals or groups. Our actions around equity include, but are not limited to:

Maintaining a culturally competent team at all levels of the organization through ongoing training, dialogue, and reflection that demonstrates our awareness, understanding, and commitment.
Interrogating dominant cultural approaches to performing and selecting policies and practices that are equitable and inclusive and align with our Foundations.
Building partnerships with organizations that can support our students as they face the concrete challenges of oppression, such as the multiple forms of basic needs insecurity.

A Stronger Community Starts with Belonging

We believe true belonging comes from creating spaces that are welcoming, supportive, and affirming for everyone, with an intentional focus on those who have historically faced barriers to inclusion. Our commitment to fostering belonging inspires actions that create opportunities, amplify voices, and ensure everyone feels valued. These efforts include, but are not limited to:

Fostering an inclusive workplace where bias is examined and respectfully challenged so our community members can bring their most authentic selves each day
Providing opportunities for shared leadership to capitalize on our diversity in our decision-making processes.
Ensuring that we include student and alumni voices in key programmatic decisions.

Fundamentally, we do not tolerate discrimination based on identity for any reason.

We will engage in these efforts daily and evolve them as often as needed. We know that each of us brings varied experiences and knowledge to this work. We don’t expect perfection but hold ourselves and others accountable to deepen our understanding and commitment. We do so in the service of justice and the spirit of humanity.

Our team is our greatest asset. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds.

We are always looking for ways to expand our growing team of talented professionals. If you’re interested in joining Bottom Line, explore our open positions.

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