The Nonprofit Racial Leadership

Gap in the Milwaukee Area:

A Race to Lead Brief

This report offers findings from the subset of 2019 survey respondents who work in the Milwaukee area. It builds upon the findings of the main report and explores how decades of discriminatory housing policies and economic hardship in the Milwaukee metropolitan area have resulted in one of the largest racial wealth gaps in the country.

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Key Findings

The majority of respondents in the Milwaukee area (65% of people of color and 80% of white people) work for organizations with less than 50% people of color in leadership (compared to 61% of people of color and 85% of white people nationally).
White respondents in the region were more likely to report having mentors at their workplace (65%) than people of color in Milwaukee (45%), people of color nationally (48%), and white respondents nationally (56%),
Almost three quarters of people of color respondents reported they were working or lower class during childhood (72% locally vs. 62% nationally), compared to 38% of white respondents locally and nationally.