Recent Report

The Push and Pull

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Race to Lead Survey Key Findings

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Recent Report

Race to Lead Demographics

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2019 Report

TRADING GLASS CEILINGS FOR GLASS CLIFFS: A RACE TO LEAD REPORT ON NONPROFIT EXECUTIVES OF COLOR

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2019 Report

RACE TO LEAD REVISITED: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ADDRESSING THE NONPROFIT RACIAL LEADERSHIP GAP
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The Race to Lead
Series

The nonprofit sector has a racial leadership gap. Studies have tracked the small percentage of people of color in Executive Director / CEO roles for years. Efforts to support and train and inspire and mold aspiring leaders of color are important…but they’re not enough to move the dial towards more diverse leadership.

Race and Leadership Data

12,712 People

across the country have responded to the Race to Lead surveys in 2016, 2019 and 2022

83% of Respondents

work for organizations engaged in DEI activities

1/2 of people of color

feel their race or ethnicity has negatively impacted their career

Race and Leadership News

National

Pushed into Leadership, Hung Out to Dry
Nonprofit Quarterly

For over two decades the Building Movement Project (BMP) has been documenting the experience of leaders of color in the nonprofit sector. A new report titled The Push and Pull:...

National

Fewer People Want to Lead Nonprofits. What’s the Answer?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Building Movement Project’s Co-Executive Directors explore our latest report in the Race to Lead series which finds that aspiring leaders, especially those of color, aren’t being pulled into leadership through...

National

With Crisis Comes Change: Black Women and the Glass Cliff
The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

First published in the 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2024 report, this article features Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead research and uncovers some of the challenges and opportunities of...

National

Women of Color

What It Looks Like to Build a Pro-Black Organization
Nonprofit Quarterly

Amilcar Cabral, Pan African leader of the Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde national independence struggle, wrote and spoke extensively about the need to fight for tangible, material changes for our...