How Your Nonprofit Can Join the Race to Lead

When the Building Movement Project (BMP) launched our survey on nonprofits, race, and leadership in the spring of 2016, many nonprofit leaders were still learning what the letters D, E,...

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Building Black Resources and Political Power

Two very important reports were recently released—Black Futures Lab’s More Black than Blue: Politics and Power in the 2019 Black Census and Building Movement Project’s Nonprofit Executives and the Racial...

Women of Color

Numbers Tell The Story: Confronting Bias in Nonprofit Leadership

In 15 years, women of color have held the same percentage of leadership roles as directors and CEOs in more than 4,000 nonprofit staff members in this country, with...

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Why more and more executive directors of color are leaving their positions, and what we need to do about it

So why are POC leaders leaving their ED jobs, and what can we do about it? There are several reasons, and it is important for us to understand them. There...

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Nonprofit Leaders of Color Face Additional Challenges, Report Finds

While nonprofit executives often face work-related challenges unrelated to race, in many cases those pressures and frustrations are compounded by race/ethnicity and other aspects of identity, a report from the...

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New Report Details the Barriers That Leaders of Color Face at Nonprofits

People of color who lead nonprofits face barriers and challenges that their white counterparts do not, according to Nonprofit Executives and the Racial Leadership Gap, a new report released by...

Women of Color

Women of color face bias at nonprofits, new report reveals

An important new study has found a persistent lack of women of color in leadership roles at nonprofits, despite increases in the diversity of the U.S. population and...

CEO #5: Diversity Efforts Continued

Nonprofit executives assessed the diversity efforts of their organizations positively, but nonprofit staff saw more room for improvement...

CEO #5: Diversity Efforts

Nonprofit executives assessed the diversity efforts of their organizations positively, but nonprofit staff saw more room for...

CEO #4: Lack of diversity is a big problem

Nonprofit EDs/CEOs agree that the lack of diversity in the sector is a “big problem” but seem unsure about how to address this problem within...