Study shows nonprofits still lacking in diversity efforts

• Date: 01 February 2020
• Published date: 01 February 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30713

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Vol. 365 February 2020

Study shows nonprots still lacking in diversity efforts

While there’s a strong, stated interest in bolstering

diversity among leadership, boards and staff at the

nation’s nonprots, that interest hasn’t necessarily

found its way into practice at many organizations,

according to the 2019 Nonprot Diversity Practices

Survey conducted by Nonprot HR. The most recent

data shows that barely half (or fewer) of nonprots

have the basics in place—such as a formal diversity

statement, providing diversity training for staff or

having formal policies in place to promote diversity

in their organizations.

Nonprot Business Advisor recently spoke with

Lisa Brown Alexander, president and CEO of Non-

prot HR, about the various tools available to help

nonprots on this front, and what benets they can

expect to see from such efforts.

Q: Nearly half of nonprot organizations have no

formal diversity statement. Why is it so important to

have one, and what should it cover?

A: A diversity statement is the rst formal expres-

sion of an organization’s commitment of intention-

ally recruiting, hiring, developing and retaining

Also in this issue

Conferences and Events: The 2020 Corps Network

National Conference; the 2020 Agents of Change

Summit; the 2020 IMPACT Conference ............4

Industry News: Nonprot CEOs see modest salary

growth .......................................5

Nonprot Research: Giving Tuesday continues growth . 6

Study lays out keys to success for peer-to-peer

campaigns ....................................6

Industry News: Study highlights giving trends for

ultra-high-net-worth individuals .................. 7

Share of Canadians giving to charity hits 20-year low . 8

Resources: Charityhowto.com webinar offers primer

on social media fundraising; Candid webinar looks at

‘high-performance’ practices for nonprots; Webinar

gives tips on nurturing relations with corporate donors 9

Employment Law: Legal cases that impact nonprots . 10

News: Briefs from around the sector .............. 12

Foundations launch impact

investing fund

A coalition of foundation and business leaders

has put forward a combined $12.5 million in initial

funding to launch the Tipping Point Fund, a rst-

of-its-kind donor collaborative that aims to scale

the practice of impact investing.

According to organizers, the TPF will make

strategic grants to support the creation and de-

velopment of critical market infrastructure that

is necessary to maintain the continued growth of

the impact investing market. The fund will expand

on existing eld-building efforts by prioritizing

two areas it said are best suited for collective ac-

tion but are unlikely to be funded through market

activity alone:

• public engagement and policy—such as

communications campaigns, policy advocacy and

implementation—to enable or encourage more

investors to enter the market and

• data, metrics and measurement—including

standard impact measurement and management

fundamentals, as well as data interoperability ef-

forts—to provide greater clarity to market actors

and ensure high standards of impact accountability.

The fund will take a collaborative approach to

grantmaking and eld building, which will en-

courage funders to agree on a cohesive vision and

strategy for scaling the impact investing industry.

The TPF also provides an entry point for those new

to eld building, thereby broadening the coalition

of funders and driving more private capital toward

solutions with the potential to address today’s most

pressing global challenges, organizers said.

For more information, visit https://www.

tippingpointfund.com. ■

(See DIVERSITY on page 2)

employees who may have differing backgrounds, edu-

cations and experiences. In addition to our recently

published Nonprofit Diversity Practices Survey,

39% of respondents to the 2019 Nonprot Talent