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.
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 barriers faced by white women and men of color. Here’s a quick look at our findings: Racial and gender biases create barriers to advancement for […]
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 survey respondents working in the nonprofit sector to understand why there are so few nonprofit leaders of color. The national findings showed that people of […]
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. Also, this report provides analysis and tools for labor and community groups nationwide that hope to overcome historical and systemic barriers in order to build […]
California’s Race to Lead: The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in the Golden State
This report compares responses from nonprofit staff in California with nonprofit staffers in all other states. The report includes five recommendations to increase and sustain diverse leadership of California’s nonprofits.
Recognizing All Families to Expand Our Movements: Insights from the Family Justice Network
This report explores the success of family recognition organizing campaigns in Georgia and New Mexico that were funded and stewarded by Family Justice Network partners. In each place, recent efforts have shown how much change is possible when people are organized around the widely-shared value of family. They also demonstrate the potential to move everyday […]
Working Towards the Common Good 2016: Findings from the New Mexico Nonprofit Survey
This report analyzes 2016 New Mexico Nonprofit Survey responses. It’s a snapshot of the work that nonprofits do to support New Mexico’s communities, the key issues they are working on, the opportunities and challenges they face, and how they work together to advocate for the common good.
Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary
Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary can be found at http://racetolead.org/lgbtq/! The report builds on data from BMP’s Nonprofits, Leadership, and Race Survey, conducted with more than 4,000 respondents across the nonprofit sector. This report, the second in the Race to Lead series, analyzes the experiences of the 20% […]
Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap
This report builds on data from Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead survey, conducted with more than 4,000 respondents across the nonprofit sector. This report, the second in the Race to Lead series, analyzes experiences of respondents who identified as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer (LGBTQ).
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap Executive Summary, the first in the Race to Lead series, is based on BMP’s 2016 survey of over 4,000 nonprofit professionals. The report explores why people of color are still under-represented in nonprofit CEO/Executive Director positions. Here’s a quick look at our findings: This Executive Summary gives a sampling […]
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
This report, based on the 2016 Race to Lead survey, compares people of color and white respondents’ backgrounds, leadership aspirations, training and attitudes toward leadership. The survey findings challenge the nonprofit sector’s approach to the racial leadership gap.