Race to Lead:

Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap

To increase the number of people of color leading nonprofits, the sector needs a new narrative about the problem and new strategies to address it. Nonprofits have to transfer the responsibility for the racial leadership gap from those who are targeted by it (aspiring leaders of color), to those governing organizations.

Key Findings

Featured Data

82% of survey respondents agree

that the low percentage of nonprofit leaders of color in top organizational roles is a problem for the nonprofit sector.

Recent News

Gathering Ground Podcast: The Push and Pull with Race to Lead
Gathering Ground

On this episode of the Gathering Ground podcast, BMP’s co-executive directors, Sean Thomas Breitfeld and Frances Kunreuther sat down with host Mary Morten and discuss some of the challenges and...

Pushed into Leadership, Hung Out to Dry
Nonprofit Quarterly

For over two decades the Building Movement Project (BMP) has been documenting the experience of leaders of color in the nonprofit sector. A new report titled The Push and Pull:...

Fewer People Want to Lead Nonprofits. What’s the Answer?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Building Movement Project’s Co-Executive Directors explore our latest report in the Race to Lead series which finds that aspiring leaders, especially those of color, aren’t being pulled into leadership through...

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Citations

Kunreuther, Frances and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld (2017). Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap.