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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Even though that number has increased over the years, she continued to see a lack of representation at the C-suite and senior leadership levels of organizations. "I I know there are individuals like me who are qualified to be in leadership positions in the community. I found myself constantly asking why they weren't there.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

This time around, more than 30 recipients were fiscally sponsored entities, collaboratives, or specific funds within organizations. For example, several donor collaboratives housed at Borealis Philanthropy were individually supported, including the Black Led Movement Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, and the Spark Justice Fund.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As For example, the National Council of Nonprofits offers a range of resources, including information on board diversity and inclusion , as well as leadership development programs.

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Harnessing the Power of AI for Positive Impact: A Conversation with Juan Lavista Ferres

NonProfit Quarterly

If you have a thousand people who take out a loan, knowing their race or ethnicity will tell you very little about who will repay the loan. You can observe income and you can observe demographic characteristics like race. And because disposable income varies by race, it could be used as an indicator of who will repay the loan.

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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

Ensure that your organization is in compliance with all applicable employment laws , it has written policies to guide leadership toward such compliance, and it considers policies that address employee wellbeing and participation in leadership. Dissatisfied employees heighten legal risks.

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Advancing racial equity for effective environmental grantmaking 

Candid

EGA has a long-standing history that includes more than 10 years of data collaboration with Candid, to support their Tracking the Field (TTF) research program. EGA found only 21% of environmental grantees who reported have leadership that identifies as BIPOC—compared to 25% for nonprofits across all issue areas.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women. Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019), 32. 11 (2022):12351–58.