Milwaukee

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Increasing racial diversity among nonprofit leadership starts with achieving financial literacy

MILWAUKEE — While leaders of nonprofits are certainly dedicated to a worthy cause, gaps in financial literacy are leading to growing racial disparities among leadership in the...

National

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When it comes to funding nonprofits, the specter of racial bias hurts us all

While the non-profit sector is known for drawing the support of dedicated people who selflessly want to make the world a better place, numerous studies show that racial bias often...

National

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What Nonprofits Led by People of Color Need to Survive

A growing group of nonprofit leaders and advocates for more effective philanthropy — joined by a small cadre of grantmakers — have been calling for multiyear general operating support (GOS)...

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DEI Efforts Within Nonprofits Lag in Practice

Nonprofits talk a good diversity, equity and inclusion game, but their actions speak more softly. People of color or sexual orientations other than heteronormative continue to lag in their representation...

Massachusetts

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Nonprofits lack support for leaders of color

A nationwide survey has put the spotlight on Massachusetts nonprofits, and how people of color who fill their ranks want to move up, but find obstacles in their...

Massachusetts

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Op-ed: Nonprofits can lead the path to progress

Massachusetts nonprofits perform an indispensable role in our response to the current crises — a global pandemic, unemployment, health disparities, economic insecurity and protests against racial...

Massachusetts

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Black Lives Matter, COVID and Equity: Philanthropy Must Step Up for the Long Struggle

COVID-19 was, in some ways, a perfect crisis for a philanthropic response. This past spring, philanthropy had no choice but to establish emergency funding programs for community-based organizations to tackle...

Massachusetts

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Panelists, researchers discuss ways to break down ‘the ‘burden of bias’ within Mass. nonprofits

Four hundred and fifty people tuned in for a forum hosted by the Boston Foundation on October 28 to hear an update to the Race to Lead study on racial...

Massachusetts

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Report highlights barriers faced by nonprofit leaders in Massachusetts

While nonprofits in Massachusetts continue to make progress in promoting, retaining, and supporting leaders of color, that progress is slow and challenges remain, a report from the Building Movement Project...

Massachusetts

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Massachusetts nonprofits falling short in efforts to support, promote leaders of color

Boston – New research from the Building Movement Project for the Boston Foundation and the Barr Foundation finds that Massachusetts continues to follow national trends in its failure to promote,...