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Nonprofit Leaders’ Breakfast: Ensuring Inclusion in the Boardroom

February 10 @ 9:00 am - 10:15 am

Free – $15

Join BVU and Gradient for this Nonprofit Leaders’ Breakfast to discuss diversity and inclusion in the boardroom. 

This session will provide a framework for ensuring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the boardroom. Topics addressed will include:

  • Organizational and Individual readiness and commitment.
  • Understanding the current practices of the board, including recruitment, onboarding, power sharing and decision making.
  • Components of a DEI strategy  that result in collaborative input and buy-in, measurable outcomes, accountability, and long-term sustainability.

 

NATIONAL CONTEXT:

Nonprofit chief executives consider board diversity important to their boards work*

  •  65% report that they are somewhat or extremely dissatisfied with their board’s ethnic and racial diversity
  • 25% of boards place a high priority on demographics in board recruitment
  • Changing board recruitment practices does not rank as a top three priority for most boards
  • 19% CEOs indicate that their board has developed an action plan to increase diversity
  

The levels of board diversity have mostly remained unchanged since 1994*

  • 90% chief execs and 84% board members report as Caucasian
  • 2017 – 27% boards identify as all white (compares to 25% in 2015)

*Source: Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices 2017

 

Panel Includes:

Victor Ruiz, Executive Director, Esperanza, Inc.

 

 

 

 

Robbin Thornton Hudson, Community Program Manager, United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland

 

 

 

 

Jerry Pena, Partner, GRADIENT A HUMAN EQUITY THINK TANK Contract

 

 

 

 

 

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Presented in partnership with:

 

Thank you to our Minority Pipeline Initiative Sponsors:

First National Bank, McKInsey, and The Sherwin-Williams Company .

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Details

Date:
February 10
Time:
9:00 am - 10:15 am
Cost:
Free – $15

Venue

Virtual

Organizer

Maria DiTurno
Phone:
2167367711
Email:
mditurno@bvuvolunteers.org
Website:
bvuvolunteers.org