Diversifying Across the Board “In current nonprofit structures, the board of directors has an enormous amount of power and often do not have the lived or learned experiences necessary to understand systems of oppression and…
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Mar. 18 Pasadena Executive Roundtable Meeting Cancelled
Mar. 18 Pasadena Executive Roundtable Meeting Cancelled. Visit pasadenaexecutiveroundtable.org to see when we reschedule the Dissecting Race in the Nonprofit Sector meeting.
You’re Invited – Addressing Implicit Bias in Nonprofit Organizations—Full-Day Workshop
Through Southern California GrantMaker’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation – Los Angeles (TRHT-LA) initiative, SCG is proud to offer our nonprofit partners a full day workshop about Addressing Implicit Bias in Nonprofit Organizations. This deep-dive workshop lead by…
Registration Open for African-American Board Leadership Institute
Are you interested in serving, have served, or currently serve on a nonprofit board and want to better understand and handle the responsibilities of board governance and leadership? Register for AABLI’s Board Leadership Program at https://aabli.org/programs-and-services/board-leadership-program/.
Tackling Tough Conversations
Talking about race and racism isn’t easy for most Americans. But nonprofits should be at the front line of increasing equity and inclusion. The Pasadena Executive Roundtable (pasadenaexecutiveroundtable.org) tackled this tough conversation in our March and…
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: What do we do about them?
The Pasadena Executive Roundtable invites you to a panel discussion on: Diversity, inclusion and equity: how do nonprofits change centuries of discrimination?? We’ve been hearing lots of terms to be more inclusive (and thereby effective)…
Diversity, inclusion and equity: what do they all mean??
We’ve been hearing lots of terms to be more inclusive (and thereby effective) organizations, but what do these terms all mean and how can we set realistic goals to make our organizations more diverse and…
A Fresh Look at Diversity and Boards
Thanks to Jan Masaoka for her great 3-part series in Blue Avocado on diversity and nonprofit boards: read part 1 at http://www.blueavocado.org/content/fresh-look-diversity-and-boards. JRP’s Leadership Connection board training and placement program is a great way to empower…
What’s the Difference Between Diversity and Inclusion
Great article in the Washington Post by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria on how to increase inclusion: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/19/weve-gotten-better-at-diversity-now-the-challenge-is-inclusion/?utm_term=.23a6126beccc. Many institutions have done well at diversity (getting a diversity of people to the table) but…
Celebrate Diversity!
The City of Pasadena’s Human Relations Commission invites you to attend this community forum as we celebrate diversity. Panelists include Rabbi Joshua Grater, Shahab Shirmohammadi, Brian Biery, Gary Moody and the Pasadena Police Department. Thur,…