This article originally appeared in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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 largest charities within the last year.
The other six new CEOs of top charities — four men and two women — are white. The seven new CEOs replace four women and three men, all of them white.
In short, diversity among America’s biggest charities took a small step backward in terms of gender diversity since the Chronicle conducted the same demographic analysis of nonprofit leadership a year ago.
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