The Community Leadership Pipeline Initiative preps individuals from underrepresented LGBTQ communities for board service, but the buck does not stop with recruitment and racial equity doesn’t stop at the board.
Is your nonprofit authentic in its pursuit of being inclusive? Experts say it matters.
In a bizarre parallel to recent findings by BoardSource in the United States, a study in the UK has found that, among the largest charities in England and Wales the proportion of charities with all white boards has increased.
The older a nonprofit organization is, and the greater its budget, the less diverse its board is likely to be, a new BoardSource report finds. This may be a product of ingrained, if unconscious, bias. Changing these numbers clearly requires a multi-faceted approach.
As NPQ has widely covered, stated nonprofit support for diversity is often not reflected in their leadership. Former nonprofit CEO Kenneth Taylor highlights some of the challenges while identifying a few action steps that nonprofits pursuing board and leadership diversity can take.
Recent research indicates that there has been little to no progress towards the goal of remaking nonprofit boards to be more racially inclusive—and more inclusive in general—so NPQ and BoardSource will be launching a project this year that needs your participation.
NPQ and BoardSource are looking for boards who have discovered their own secret sauce to becoming inclusive.
This most recent webinar in our series on nonprofit boards gets serious about practical strategies nonprofits can take to create more diverse and inclusive boards. This is not a theory but a practice session.
Anne Wallestad, the CEO of BoardSource, gave a barnburner of a talk at the organization’s recent conference. In it, she emphasized the need for a values base in our boards and a willingness to stand up and advocate even when it might be seen as out of the ordinary. After all, that’s what leadership in the social sector requires.
A local activist calls out a powerful local philanthropic player on its lack of diversity in leadership. Let’s be clear; we will never change without this kind of stepping up.
