Diversity Committee Proposal -- Biggest Advantages of Motion

1. Defines a consistent vision of diversity for AFS-USA
   
2. Takes a deliberate and quantifiable approach to fulfilling the AFS-USA mission of moving toward a more just and peaceful world – setting standards and measures of inclusion
   
3. Provides a program experience that reflects US diversity, for both students hosted in the US, as well as the students we send abroad as ambassadors
   
4. Makes AFS a leader in the industry and across other types of organizations
   
5. Makes stating the case to funders interested in issues of diversity much more concrete, allowing us to retain and gain investors
   
6. Allows access to new communities, increasing the pool of students, families, and volunteers – an opportunity to expand the pie – to resolve our most pressing problems of sending more students, finding more families, and engaging more volunteers
   
7. Informs the development of the lead management processes: volunteer, student, and host family
   
8. Increases cultural competence of AFS staff and volunteers
   
9. Provides AFS-USA quantifiable data on our constituents, which we currently do not have.