Heather Carpenter’s list of next generation leaders inspired me last week. But when I saw the official NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50, I got so riled up that I wrote a letter to the publisher. There were barely any people of color on that list, and I feel that it is really time for us to start pointing that out when we see it, instead of just saying “well, that’s the way it is.” Below is the letter I emailed to John McIlquham, the publisher of The NonProfit Times. Hopefully he will write me back.
In the meantime, please help me add to my list in the comments, so we can all learn from each other about the depth of multicultural leadership in our sector. How do we pay this forward so that we can begin to build a culture of honoring contributions from people of color in the nonprofit field?
Dear John,
Like my colleagues in the nonprofit field, I am an avid reader of The NonProfit Times, as the “premier business publication written for nonprofit executives.” As your Web site notes, The NonProfit Times reaches 38,000 executive decision makers, and we all appreciate the timely information that is presented in each issue. That is why it shocked me to see that http://fromthepipeline.blogspot.com/
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- Julian Bond, NAACP Board Chair
- Emmett Carson, President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Patrick Corvington, Senior Associate, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Erica Hunt, President, 21st Century Foundation
- Diane Bell-McCoy, Associated Black Charities
- Michael Lomax, United Negro College Fund
- Marc Morial, President, National Urban League
- Ron McKinley, Fieldstone Alliance, Kellogg Action Lab
- Bao Vang, Leadership Program Coordinator, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
- Terri Lee Freeman, President, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
- Mai Moua, Leadership Paradigms
- Janet Murguía, President, National Council of La Raza
- Rodney M. Jackson, President, National Center for Black Philanthropy
- Diana Campoamor, President, Hispanics in Philanthropy
- Albert Ruesga, Chair, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Vice President Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, blogger at White Courtesy Telephone
- Lisa Morton, Nonprofit HR Solutions
- Trista Harris, Executive Director, Headwaters Foundation for Justice
- Trabian Shorters, Knight Foundation
- Maxine Baker, African American Nonprofit Network
- Greg Taylor, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Van Jones, formerly Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone
- Cristina Lopez, National Hispana Leadership Institute, formerly Center for Community Change
- Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change
- Beatriz Otero, CEO, CentroNia
- Linda Nguyen, Director of Civic Engagement, Alliance for Families and Children
- Priscilla Hung, Co-Director of Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
- Mia Herndon, Executive Director, Third Wave Foundation
- Alison Lugo Saenz, Associate Director, The Grantmaking School of Grand Valley State
- Sonya Garcia Ulibarri, Executive Director –Youth Build, Denver, Colorado
- Eddy Morales, - Center for Community Change, Generation Change Program
- Taij Moteellal – Executive Director, Resource Generation
- Phuong Quoch, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
- Dwayne Patterson, Southern Organizer for Center for Community Change, Black America’s Organizing Project
- Tracey Greene Dorsett – Director of Evaluation, National Rural Funders Collaborative
- Glen O’Gilvie, Center for Nonprofit Advancement
- Joanna Opot, Executive Director, StartingBloc
- Jeremy Foreman, Executive Director, Hands On Ogeechee
- Elsie L. Scott, President, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
- Cassandra Butts, formerly Fund for American Studies, Obama Campaign
- Mando Rayo, Hands on Central Texas
- Michael Watson, Girl Scouts USA
- Benjamin Jealous, President, NAACP
- Luz Vega-Marquis, President, Marguerite Casey Foundation
- Wenda Weekes Moore, Secretary, Board of Directors, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Lillian Cruz, formerly with The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
- Antonio Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
- Gary Flowers, Black Leadership Forum
- H. Alexander Robinson, National Black Justice Coalition
- Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women
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Rosetta Thurman is an emerging nonprofit leader of color working and living in the Washington, DC area. She holds a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and blogs about nonprofit leadership and management issues at Perspectives From the Pipeline.
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