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The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in Central Texas: A Race to Lead Brief
This report offers findings from the subset of 2019 survey respondents who work in the Central Texas area. It builds upon the findings of the main report and explores how leadership networks in the Austin metropolitan area impact career and funding prospects, as well as the effectiveness of nonprofit efforts to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary
Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap presents findings from BMP’s 2019 survey of more than 5,000 paid nonprofit staff on their experiences […]
Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
This report presents findings from BMP’s 2019 survey of more than 5,000 nonprofit staff on their experiences of race and leadership in nonprofit settings. The survey included many of the […]
Collaboration Across Race in the Reproductive Movement: A Case Study of the Reproductive Health Equity Act in Oregon
This report explores the passage of the Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA), one of the most comprehensive reproductive health bills in the country. RHEA was signed into law on August […]
Nonprofit Executives and the Racial Leadership Gap: A Race to Lead Brief
This report explores gaps between executive leaders of color and white leaders and compares nonprofit executives to staff respondents. While nonprofit executives have difficult jobs regardless of race, challenges and burdens are often compounded by race and other features of identity.
For Further Study
Longer texts to provide a more in-depth study of social movements and movement building History of Social MovementsWhen The Old Left Was Young (Robert Cohen)The Movements of the New Left (Van Gosse)Poor […]
Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector Executive Summary
Based on data from more than 4,000 survey respondents, this report in the Race to Lead series shows that women of color encounter systemic obstacles to their advancement over and above the […]
Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector
By examining the impact of race and gender on survey respondents, this report adds important nuances to conclusions drawn from other reports in the Race to Lead series.
The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in Massachusetts: A Race to Lead Brief
The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in Massachusetts: A Race to Lead Brief can be found at http://racetolead.org/massachusetts! The Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead series examines the findings from more than 4,000 […]
Keeping Students First: Building Community Labor Partnerships for Strong Schools
This report explores what happened in two cities—St. Paul, Minnesota and Austin, Texas—where unions have established partnerships reminiscent of the alignment between labor and community groups in Chicago in 2012. […]