The relationship between my community partner and citizens is slightly narrow. I say narrow because the group has a very specific target audience. The Diversity Pipeline is focused on encouraging and aiding the members of the community that are typically left behind or left out. The group aims to speak for those who do not have the voice or ability to engage in an activity that is typically dominated by specific races and socioeconomic groups. Summed up, this is not an organization that has direct relations with the general population.
The level that Diversity Pipelines interacts is on a local level. Since they are a subdivision of the San Francisco Bar Association, they are directed and funded to aid the communities within a certain proximity. There are more than likely other Bar Associations across the state that cater to their own communities.
Citizen participation can affect my community partner through volunteer work, donations and other means of aid. An issue is that not all people are able to help my community partner in either of those manners. The organize is a small one, and if there were more people that needed help in the field that my community partner helps in, the organization would get more backing and be larger. At the moment, there are only so many people that need/ reach out to Diversity Pipelines for help, and the demand affects the supply.
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