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Women of Color

What It Looks Like to Build a Pro-Black Organization

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...

R2L Revisited

Women of Color

Why Women Don’t Get Ahead at Nonprofits

Karen had been working at a human-services nonprofit for a decade when she accidentally stumbled on a co-worker’s personal data stored on the group’s shared server. There were pay stubs,...

R2L Revisited

Women of Color

The Challenges of Being a Woman Leader of Color

Women of color are less likely than white women, white men, and men of color to rise to leadership positions at nonprofits, particularly large nonprofits. But beating the odds and...

R2L Revisited

Women of Color

Diversity on Hold

When Janti Soeripto was promoted to CEO of Save the Children in December, she also became the only nonwhite person to rise to the top of one of America’s 100...

R2L Revisited

Women of Color

Black Women in the Nonprofit Sector: New Findings from the 2019 Race to Lead Survey

The recent Black Lives Matter protests in response to police violence have resurfaced conversations about anti-blackness in the workplace. What do Black women responding to the latest Race to Lead...

Women of Color

Let’s Get Real About Why Women of Color Are So Tired

Women of color leaders are guarding a dirty little secret: Our work is eroding our mental, physical, and emotional health. We are slowly wrecking ourselves as we try to transform...

Women of Color

The Black Woman’s Guide to Philanthropy

Whether through giving circles, mobile apps, crowdfunding, or impact investing, Black women are redefining what it means to be philanthropists. That’s according to a 2019 study by the Women’s Philanthropy...

Women of Color

Numbers Tell The Story: Confronting Bias in Nonprofit Leadership

In 15 years, women of color have held the same percentage of leadership roles as directors and CEOs in more than 4,000 nonprofit staff members in this country, with...

Women of Color

Women of color face bias at nonprofits, new report reveals

An important new study has found a persistent lack of women of color in leadership roles at nonprofits, despite increases in the diversity of the U.S. population and...

Women of Color

Webinar Re-Cap: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

Last week, the Building Movement Project (BMP) hosted a 60-minute webinar featuring a presentation of our latest report-- Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit...