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Leadership Development Programs Need an Upgrade: Five Ways to Advance Racial Equity

As the nation grapples with “the great resignation” across a range of job industries since the start of the pandemic, employment challenges extend to the nonprofit sector as...

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For Non-Profits in Racial Transition, It Can Be ‘Welcome to the Glass Cliff’

The Building Movement Project, where I am co-executive director, has released two reports on the experiences of nonprofit executives of color, the unique burdens they face when taking over leadership...

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For first Black, nonbinary GLSEN leader, intersectionality is key

She’s experienced both the “superpower of invisibility” & the “superpower of being deeply connected to those who are...

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Nonprofit executives of color face unique challenges, report finds

Ascending to an executive position does not end struggles with racism for leaders of color in the nonprofit sector, and sometimes increases those challenges, a report from the Building Movement...

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New Nonprofit Leaders of Color Bring Change but Also Face Hurdles

Before Joe Scantlebury became chief executive of Living Cities in September, he knew had a daunting task ahead. An unnamed group of employees who had fled the nonprofit made it...

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Opinion: Making and taking space

Over the past 18 months, the job of a nonprofit executive director has become much more difficult. In the nonprofit sector, we have added addressing systemic racism and remote management...

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National

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If You Want to Hire an Executive Director of Color, Don’t Set Us Up to Fail

Four years ago, I became the first woman of color to lead the Alliance for Youth Organizing. I was a 33-year-old Latina and first-time executive director with limited fundraising experience...

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What Would Ruth Bader Ginsburg Do? Finding Answers to the Gender Gap in Jewish Nonprofit Leadership

A few years before her death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reviewed a portfolio of what would become $3.5 million in grants made in her honor by the Genesis Prize, which celebrates...

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The Currency of Human Resources Is Trust

Human Resources is the organizational arm that can best operationalize values—that is, make values a concrete part of day-to-day work practices. It can be a guardian of culture and the...

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Canaccord Genuity LLC support of Youth INC tops $5M

NEW YORK, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Youth INC announced today that Canaccord Genuity LLC (“Canaccord Genuity”), the US division of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc., has committed $750,000 to...