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Tag: Diversity
Shades of Leadership: Llyas Salahud-Din
In the Shades of Leadership video series, leaders from Austin share their experience on philanthropy, leadership & board service and the impact of diversity in the community.
Shades of Leadership: Cruz Correa
In the Shades of Leadership video series, leaders from Austin share their experience on philanthropy, leadership & board service and the impact of diversity in the community.
Shades of Leadership: Amy Mills
In the Shades of Leadership video series, leaders from Austin share their experience on philanthropy, leadership & board service and the impact of diversity in the community.
Shades of Leadership: Denise Hernandez
In the Shades of Leadership video series, leaders from Austin share their experience on philanthropy, leadership & board service and the impact of diversity in the community.
Shades of Leadership: Kazique Prince, Ph.D.
In the Shades of Leadership video series, leaders from Austin share their experience on philanthropy, leadership & board service and the impact of diversity in the community.
Speaker Series with Michael Smith
We’re taking this conversation to the next level, next week. And you’re invited. GivingCity and Mando Rayo have partnered with Kazique Prince, PhD, of Jelani Consulting (and a senior policy advisor to Mayor Steve Adler) to bring a national speaker to Austin on Tuesday, March 8. Michael Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs for […]
Dear Austin Business Journal: Here is a sample of high achieving people of color in Austin
Last week the Austin Business Journal ran a story asking six of “the most impressive young Austinites” about the secrets to their success, and not a single one of them were people of color. Only one was a woman. I was taken aback by ABJ’s decision to offer such a homogenous list, especially considering the recent trend to call […]
THE NEW PHILANTHROPISTS: Where we stand with nonprofit board diversity in Austin
While the population of Austin is less than 50% Anglo or white, non-Hispanic the majority of nonprofit board members are white. Put another way, people of color are more than 50% of the population but only about 10% of nonprofit board leadership. It’s also worth considering that many of the social issues served by nonprofits disproportionally affect people of color. […]
July 28: New Philanthropists Panel Discussion by GivingCity Austin
More than 150 people joined GivingCity and Mando Rayo + Collective for the inaugural event of The New Philanthropists, featuring a thoughtful panel including Christopher Kennedy of Leadership Austin, Erica Saenz of UT Division of Diversity an Community Engagement, Ken Gladish of Seton Foundations; Llyas Saluhud-Din of VChain Solutions, Sonia Kotecha of CASA of Travis County, and Virginia Cumberbatch of […]
About our launch event, July 28
Since 2000, Mando Rayo has been developing a project to address the leadership gap between Latinos, African-Americans and Asians and mainstream nonprofit boards. Concurrently, GivingCity has been promoting social innovators of color through a regular feature called The New Philanthropists. In the fall of 2014, GivingCity Austin and Mando Rayo + Collective formed a partnership to launch The New Philanthropists Project by meeting with […]
What we believe
We launched The New Philanthropists project because we believe that racially diverse nonprofit boards make for more effective nonprofits and offer new leadership opportunities for people of color. Our goals are to increase the number of people of color on nonprofit boards and create a culture of transparency around racial diversity and inclusion in our sector.It’s important that we outline […]