The article examines the challenges nonprofits in Chicago experence when diversifying their boards.
Finding Category: Nonprofit Board Diversity & Inclusion
Why White Men Still Dominate Nonprofit Boards
The crisis in nonprofit leadership
This article addresses the underutilization of nonprofit leadership – catalyst to enginer social changes in communities
Let’s Stop (Just) Talking About Nonprofit Board Diversity
An article written by the CEO, Anne Wallestad of Boardsource on the importance of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
7 Things You Can Do to Improve the Sad, Pathetic State of Board Diversity
From the author: Vu Le revisits the problem of the lack of diversity on nonprofit boards with some suggestions about how to think about and address the problem; providing a few vivid metaphors for a non-diverse board.
Why Board Diversity Matters
From the author: Practical ways to meet the varied needs of communities.
Nonprofit Governance Index 2012
The BoardSource Nonprofit Governance Index provides the most up-to-date compendium of nonprofit board policies, practices, and performance from diverse organizations nationwide, including responses from both chief executives and board chairs.
Diversity Perspectives and Minority Nonprofit Board Member Inclusion
This study quantitatively investigated how three organizational diversity paradigms are associated with the individual inclusion experiences of minority nonprofit board members.
Building Board Diversity
This article utilizes literature review to describe the gaps that come with building board diversity, providing examples of issues that arise when attempting to diversify boards and insight on how to recruit and hire a diverse board team
Overcoming Barriers To Ethnic Diversification Of The Board: A Fundraising Argument
From the author: This research explores current research on board roles and ethnic diversity, the board’s relationship to the success of the organization, diversity’s impact on team process and product, ethnic participation in American philanthropy, barriers to board diversification, as well as primary data from large arts organizations in major metropolitan areas.
California’s Race to Lead: The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in the Golden State
The Building Movement Project – Race to Lead series investigates why there is so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector. Findings were aggerated more than 4,000 survey respondents working in the nonprofit sector.