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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

Candid

To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Nonprofits are most likely to share data at the leader level and on gender and race/ethnicity. nonprofits through Candid’s nonprofit profiles.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

A January 2021 report published by Pew Research showed that 54 percent of Black online participants and 47 percent of Hispanic participants say they were targeted for harassment due to race or ethnicity, compared with 17 percent of White users. Large audience and engagement numbers are not the only metric of social media success.

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Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

But they are, in fact, incredibly diverse—representing many ethnicities, speaking hundreds of languages, identifying with various faiths, with very different migration stories. In mainstream narratives, AA and NHPI communities are often lumped together as a monolithic group with a singular experience.

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Creating partnerships: Closing the gender pay gap by challenging the status quo together 

Candid

Furthermore, gender- and race-based biases continue to shape how many view women’s roles and relegate women to lower pay and less financial security. Hall concluded that “bias, not pipeline issues or personal choices, pushes women out of science—and that bias plays out differently depending on a woman’s race or ethnicity.”

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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

from Pixabay Race plays an outsized role in how people experience leadership, with White leaders widely considered to be the norm. 1] In spite of the salience of race in the experience of leadership, there is not much study of the Black leadership experience. Image Credit: Van3ssa ? A somewhat different perspective.is

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Measure what matters: collect data with intention 

MNA Association

It’s time-consuming for staff, burdensome for those you serve and there’s little time or expertise to actually turn it into meaningful insights that add value. One note: I ’ve worked with nonprofits who’ve shied away from collecting data on race and ethnicity for various reasons, or allowed this data to be incomplete and inaccurate.

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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

Fortunately, in recent years, some nonprofits have successfully diversified their boards, recruiting members with lived experiences that align with the communities being served by paying attention to demographics such as age, race, socioeconomic status, education, religion, disability, and diversity in thought and professional experience.