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When boards struggle with their own lack of diversity

Our nonprofit board keeps saying we need more diverse leadership but the people making that call are all white and affluent and when community members point out the contradiction, we get defensive instead of actually examining our process.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very people identifying the need for change are embodying the problem they claim to want to solve.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Privilege and its acknowledgment?”

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