Leadership Team member Vicki Rosenberg, President of Vicki Rosenberg & Associates, discusses the importance of diverse trustees and board members in a recent blog for BoardSource. Vicki asks some very important questions : Does your board have a commitment to diversity and inclusion? Has it defined what that means? Has it grappled with the value it […]
Jasmine McGinnis, Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Public Administration at George Washington University, offers a call to action to the field of philanthropy. View the document.
The statistics are all too familiar. Nearly every major indicator of economic, social, and physical well-being shows that black men and boys in the U.S. do not have access to the structural supports and opportunities needed to thrive. The unemployment rate of black men is more than double that of white men. According to a […]
One of D5’s partners, Philanthropy New York, is hosting an event that will examine diversity in public service leadership at the top levels of government and its impact on engaging communities of color to help solve social policy dilemmas. Presenters include Anthony Winn, Director of the National Urban Fellows Public Leadership Diversity Intiative and Richard […]
How should philanthropy respond to the tremendous demographic changes taking place in the United States? One way is to weave the work of more diverse donors – “the best kept secret in philanthropy,” according to one of the leaders in the field – into more traditional philanthropy.
