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Walking The Talk: Are We Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap?
(March 21, 2018 webinar) Building Movement Project (BMP) co-director Frances Kunreuther discusses Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap, the first report in BMP’s Race to Lead series that explores why there are so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector.
Student Debt Resources
Resources to learn more about student loan debt, repayment, and forgiveness
Key Financial Statements
This guide for boards of directors introduces the two most important financial documents - the balance sheet and income statement - that help board members meet their fiduciary responsibilities.
Walking the Talk: Impact > Intention: Implicit Bias
(February 15, 2018 webinar) Ivan Canada and Michael Robinson of the National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad presented the second webinar in the Center's "Walking the Talk" series, Impact > Intention: Understanding Implicit Bias
Guidebook for Boards of Directors of North Carolina Nonprofits
An overview of the roles and responsibilities of board members of NC nonprofit organizations.
Employment Law for North Carolina Nonprofits
A handbook of major state and federal employment law requirements for North Carolina nonprofits.
#DonorLove – How to Keep Your Donors Giving
(January 25, 2018 webinar) This webinar centers around loving your donors and time-tested strategies to engage, steward, and upgrade new donors.
Walking the Talk: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in North Carolina Nonprofits
(December 13, 2017 webinar) Anita Brown-Graham, ncIMPACT at UNC School of Government; Ivan Canada, NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad; and Jeanne Tedrow, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits will share in this recorded webinar. They’ll share goals of the initiative, discuss distinctions between the terms, analyze NC demographic data around race, age, and needs related to equity and inclusion, and answer questions.
Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
Those who care about the health of the charitable sector—those who believe, as we do, that strong nonprofit leaders are the best predictors of organizational success—can draw both warning and inspiration from the results of this national study produced in partnership by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, and Idealist.org.
Will We Get There Hire by Hire?
"We haven’t confronted this elephant in the room: If few people of color want to lead your staff or serve on your board despite the fact that you work in and with communities of color, it is entirely likely that people of color don’t see your organization as a place through which to make social change."
Race Matters, User Guide
Tools to help organizations understand how racism operates to create disparities that are often maintained inadvertently through policies and practices that contain barriers to opportunity. Provides examples of how to close equity gaps by using strategies determined through an intentional focus on race.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Definitions
OpenSource Leadership Strategies provides definitions for diversity, inclusion, and equity that reflect current thinking in the field.
Becoming an Anti-Racist White Ally: How a White Affinity Group Can Help
Navigating aspects of personal identity within American social institutions, such as schools and workplaces, is often challenging and complex.