Preparedness is for everyone.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Survival Mastery.
We started Survival Mastery because we believe everyone deserves to know how to take care of themselves and the people they love — no matter where they live, what they earn, or where they come from.
Preparedness skills are universal. A wildfire doesn't care about your zip code. A power outage doesn't ask for your credentials. Knowing how to filter water, treat a wound, or feed your family in a crisis isn't a privilege — it's a baseline. Our work begins from that conviction, and it shapes how we build the platform, who we partner with, and who we serve.
We believe in the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion — not as a slogan, but as a working framework. Holding those values matters, but it isn't enough. What matters is what we do with them. The commitments below describe the work we're already doing and the direction we're committed to taking.
We build for everyone, not just the well-equipped.
The most prepared people in the world are usually the people who can afford to be. Gear, training, and time off all cost money. We're working to make Survival Mastery a platform where someone with a $20 budget and a smartphone can access the same skills as someone with a six-figure gear closet — because the knowledge matters more than the equipment, and the knowledge is what we can actually share.
We partner with organizations doing the real work.
Our partner ecosystem reflects our values. We work with the Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance to serve the families and educators in some of Colorado's most underserved communities. We work with Kingdom Builders Family Life Center to support survivors of domestic and sexual violence — including male survivors historically excluded from traditional support systems. We work with the Xi Pi Uplift Foundation, the charitable arm of one of America's historic Black fraternities, to invest in youth and education in the Pikes Peak Region. We work with Scouting America to support more than a million young people, including the nearly 200,000 girls and young women now part of programs that were once closed to them. Our partners are who we are.
We choose instructors for skill, and we keep our doors open.
Our instructors earn their place through expertise, dedication, and the depth of what they can teach. We don't impose demographic templates on who gets to share knowledge with our community. At the same time, we're actively working to ensure that the voices on our platform reflect the breadth of people who practice and teach these skills — because traditional skills have never belonged to one community, one geography, or one demographic, and our roster should reflect that truth.
We invest in the communities we serve.
Through our strategic partnerships and our work with nonprofit and educational organizations, we direct meaningful platform access, technology development, and educational infrastructure to communities that traditional learning platforms overlook. From the rural counties served by ECCLA to the survivors served by Kingdom Builders to the next generation of Scouts learning the skills of self-reliance, our work goes where it's needed.
We build a workplace that reflects what we say.
Our team is small, and we intend to keep growing it deliberately. As we hire, we commit to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve, where every person on the team is heard, valued, and given real ownership of the work. We don't believe in performative inclusion. We believe in real seats at the real table.
We listen, we learn, and we say so when we're wrong.
This page is not a finished statement. It's a starting point. The communities we serve, the partners we work with, the members on the platform, and the team we build will continue to teach us what we don't know — and we're committed to listening when they do. When we get something wrong, we'll say so. When we can do better, we will. The work of building a fair and inclusive platform is never finished, and we don't pretend otherwise.
This is a journey. We're early in it, and we know that. We'll continue to measure, review, and update our commitments as our work and our team grow. If you see something we should be doing differently, we want to hear from you.
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