Key Findings
To increase the number of people of color leading nonprofits, the sector needs a new narrative about the problem and new strategies to address it. Nonprofits have to transfer the responsibility for the racial leadership gap from those who are targeted by it (aspiring leaders of color), to those governing organizations.
that the low percentage of nonprofit leaders of color in top organizational roles is a problem for the nonprofit sector.
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:...
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...
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...
Kunreuther, Frances and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld (2017). Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap.