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 equity in nonprofit leadership.
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 landing the top spot often opens the door to a whole new set of problems.
To build an organizational culture that embraces racial equity, senior leaders need to set the tone and drive progress of the work.
In a new report by the Building Movement Project, researchers uncovered something many women of color in the nonprofit sector intuitively know and find intimately familiar: Due to gender and race-based discrimination, women of color encounter significantly more barriers to advancement than white women and men of color.
A Future So Colorful — coined by our student Shahmeer Mirza, this phrase embodies a world rich with diverse narratives woven into its social fabric, abundant with equitable opportunities for young creatives to pursue their passion.
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, retain and support nonprofit leaders of color.
Environmental organizations are in transition. The slow pace of progress, combined with political resistance, has forced advocates to rethink how they connect with new allies. This has not been easy. A Gallup poll found that Americans care less about the environment than they once did. People feel isolated and powerless.
Over the last 18 months, nonprofit organizations in the region have spent much of their days in a reactive state: responding, experimenting and working to survive in order to continue serving community needs.
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 well.