Massachusetts

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Nonprofit Leadership Is Becoming More Diverse In Boston. What Took So Long?

Across the Boston area, a transformation has quietly been taking place: Over the past year, people of color have been hired as executive directors of several major non-profit organizations, including...

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

R2L Revisited

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...

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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

R2L Revisited

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,...

Massachusetts

How can Massachusetts Diversify its Nonprofit Leadership?

A new report explores the racial leadership gap in Massachusetts’ nonprofit sector and offers recommendations to address a longstanding challenge with deep...

Massachusetts

Nonprofit Sector Needs to Recruit and Promote Leaders of Color, Report Finds

Representatives from the Building Movement Project spoke about data they collected on this sector at a forum at The Boston Foundation headquarters on April 2. National data and Boston data...

Massachusetts

Racial Inequity in the Leadership of Massachusetts Nonprofit Organizations

A few months ago, NPQ ran an article summarizing the findings in a report by the Building Movement Project called Race to Lead, which explored some reasons why there are...