Fumbling Towards Equity: Monisha Kapila’s co-authored blog post previews Independent Sector conference session on increasing diversity at all levels
Monisha Kapila, ProInspire Founder and CEO, co-authored a blog post about the need for diverse leaders at all levels in the nonprofit sector in order to better achieve organizational missions and reflect the communities in which we work and serve. Written in conjunction with other leaders of Equity in the Center, a coalition of organizations whose goal is to create a more diverse and equitable social sector, Fumbling Towards Equity: Increasing diversity at all levels of the talent pipeline makes the case for why and how we must come together to push the field forward and create change that is urgently needed.
See below for a preview of the blog post and click here to read the post in its entirety.
The blog post also serves as a preview of a session that Monisha will co-facilitate at the Independent Sector conference this week. If you’re attending the conference, don’t miss this opportunity to learn new tips and tools that will enable you to have honest conversations about disrupting the status quo and realizing a diversified sector talent pool:
FUMBLING TOWARDS EQUITY: INCREASING DIVERSITY AT ALL LEVELS OF THE TALENT PIPELINE
Presented by Equity in the Center
Friday, November 18, 2016 • 8:30 – 10:00 AM
We hope to see you at the Independent Sector conference session!
By MacArthur Antigua, Senior Director, Alumni Engagement and Cross-Sector Partnerships, Public Allies
Ben Duda, Co-Executive Director, AmeriCorps Alums
Monisha Kapila, Founder and CEO, ProInspire
Kerrien Suarez, Consultant, Equity in the Center
We believe that the nonprofit sector needs diverse leaders at all levels in order to better achieve organizational missions, as well as reflect the communities in which they work and serve. Currently there is a lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the nonprofit sector:
- 82% of the U.S. nonprofit workforce is white, compared to 65% of the overall U.S. workforce. In addition, people of color are expected to be 50% of the U.S. workforce by 2039.
- Nonprofit organizations that serve children and families lack diverse leadership: 89% of nonprofit CEOs are white; 80% of board members are white.
- Social outcomes differ based on race and ethnicity across multiple indicators. For example, the overall poverty rate is 15% of the U.S. population, yet for Blacks it is 27.2% and for Hispanics it is 25.6%.
So what holds people back from addressing this issue? Our work has identified three key barriers:
- Creating a more diverse and equitable social sector is an adaptive challenge….
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