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Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap

August 1, 2018

Working at the Intersections focuses on the intersection of sexuality and race when evaluating nonprofit leadership. The report builds on Race to Lead, again utilizing the Nonprofits, Race, and Leadership Survey, and analyzing the answers of the 21% of respondents who self-identified as LGBTQ+. The findings of this report were significant, with nearly one-fifth of […]

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Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap

August 1, 2018

The percentage of people of color in the executive director/CEO role has remained under 20% for the last 15 years, despite the country becoming more diverse. Race to Lead utilized Building Movement Project’s Nonprofits, Race, and Leadership Survey, which asked employees about their current nonprofit job, interest in leading a nonprofit, personal background, and the […]

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Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture

August 1, 2018

Awake to Woke to Work, a report from Equity in the Center, outlines ways that organizations can help dismantle structural racism and inequities both inside and outside their organizations. The report identifies three proactive organizational stages that build race equity culture — one that is focused on “proactive counteraction of race inequities.” The “awake” stage […]

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Building Reframing Into Organizational Culture

July 26, 2018

True reframing integration means weaving the approach into the fabric of your organization, making it automatic and easier to adopt for staff now and in the future. Beyond simply reframing specific content, sustainability is achieved when reframing is established as the lens through which to make communications, development, and policy decisions across the organization. One […]

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National Assembly Comments on HHS Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Prevention Services

July 24, 2018

On Friday, July 20, the National Assembly submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about the development of a clearinghouse of evidence-based practices in accordance with the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) of 2018. The clearinghouse will identify “promising,” “supported,” and “well-supported” practices for mental health and substance abuse […]

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