Framework for Justice, Equity, and Belonging
From the authors: This Framework For Justice, Equity, and Belonging guides how board, staff, and members of TOGETHER Bay Area participate in the organization’s governance, operations, and programs centering equity work for justice and inclusion.
Author(s) : TOGETHER Bay Area
From Boardroom to Airwaves, NPR Has a Diversity Problem
This article summaries NPR persistant lack of diversity,in the boardrooms and on air news perspectives.
Author(s) : Jim Naureckas
The Influence of Board Diversity, Board Diversity Policies and Practices, and Board Inclusion Behaviors on Nonprofit Governance Practices
This study examines how non-profit board performance is impacted by board diversity.
Author(s) : Kathleen Buse, Ruth Sessler Bernstein, Diana Bilimoria
Leading With Intent – An overview of nonprofit board diversity
Leading with Intent indext is organized into four broad categories: People: Board Composition and Structure; Culture: Leadership Culture and Dynamics; Work: Board Responsibilities; and, Impact: Perceptions of the Board’s Impact on Organizational Performance.
Author(s) : BoardSource
Vital Voices: Lessons Learned from Board Members of Color
From the authors: Our survey focused exclusively on the attitudes and experiences of people of color who serve on nonprofit boards. We asked about recruitment practices, on-boarding processes, and board culture and dynamics to ascertain whether diversity was accompanied by inclusivity.
Author(s) : Vernetta L. Walker, Deborah J. Davidson (BoardSource)
Board Diversity Lilly Foundation
This Article explores the diversity among nonprofit boards as well as the role diversity plays in the engagement of board members.
Author(s) : The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Project Team Una Osili, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, et al
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.
Author(s) : Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld
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.
Author(s) : Anjali Lalani
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
Author(s) : Rebecca Gardyn
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.
Author(s) : Ruth Sessler Bernstein and Diana Bilimoria