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NFL can teach not-for-profits about diversity

Indianapolis needs a Rooney Rule to bust up our seemingly segregated not-for-profit sector. The black executive director or not-for-profit CEO who is not working for an organization that is intimately...

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Data: What is it Good For? Learning (with you) from Race to Lead

The Nonprofits, Leadership, and Race Survey – the basis for the Race to Lead reports – was developed to learn more about why so few people of color head nonprofit...

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Black Ceiling Exists for African-American Women Seeking Nonprofit Leadership Roles

Over the last few years, I have participated in various state and local consortiums and work groups with other nonprofit leaders who are working to address poverty, systems change and...

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Nonprofit Leadership: How To Create A Diverse Pipeline To The Top

When I was a young girl, I never dreamed of working at, much less running, a nonprofit organization. I didn't have a framework around nonprofit or for-profit, for that...

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Looking Inward: The New Fund Seeking Racial Equity in the Nonprofit Sector

The Ford and W.K. Kellogg foundations recently teamed up with Borealis Philanthropy to launch the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund. The fund just released its first round of grants, totaling...

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Nonprofit Leaders Are Overwhelmingly White, A New Jacksonville Program Seeks To Change That Locally

Next month, a group of 11 black community leaders will embark on an inaugural yearlong course designed to help build out the local network of people of color in...

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The Role of Senior Leaders in Building a Race Equity Culture

To build an organizational culture that embraces racial equity, senior leaders need to set the tone and drive progress of the work....

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Will Pittsburgh Nonprofits Move Away from Overwhelmingly White Leadership?

Earlier this year, NPQ reported on a study by the Pittsburgh-based Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. The study, titled What Now: How will the impending retirement...

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Why are the leadership ranks of Pa. nonprofits so white and how could they be more diverse?

In 1997, Walter Smith Jr. became the first black executive director of Family Resources, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that treats people who have experienced child abuse and provides counseling for...

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PACE sponsors efforts to increase Black leaders in non-profit sector

Since its beginning in the wake of the riots following Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, PACE, the Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise, worked to build the capacity of individuals, groups,...

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