A year and a half after the “Unite the Right” rally and white supremacist violence roiled the Virginia college town, the local community foundation is working to center equity in its work, both in its grantmaking and in the public role it plays in the Charlottesville community.
A survey of nonprofits finds, again, that most have failed to move the needle on racial equity. The report offers steps to remedy these shortfalls, but it completely underestimates the cultural transformation required.
The daily online newswire, produced by NPQ’s collaborative journalism program, traces developments in fields, practices, and the operating environments of nonprofits. This compilation of one line of NPQ reportage highlights the realms of activities and issues involved in decolonizing the museum, acknowledging the role of museums in anchoring narratives about the world we live in.
We should know better by now. Diversity is important, but achieving equity and inclusion requires not just more diverse faces, but the sharing of power.
At the annual conference of the leading international academic trade association for the study of nonprofits, a group of panelists, including NPQ’s Ruth McCambridge, took a hard look at why nonprofit governance in the US remains white-dominated and what to do about that.
Cincinnati public school board member Ozie Davis says, “This idea that we can have a reduction of poverty and create equity without disrupting the very traditional racist systems that are prevalent in Cincinnati has to be challenged.”
Dynamics between a nonprofit and its founder can be difficult, but there are times when the mythology of it all can just get in the way of real concerns.
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.
