Achieving Diversity

Diversity Efforts and the Recession
The recession is changing how diversity officers at big charities work.
Plus: The American Cancer Society takes a new approach

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FEW FEMALE OR MINORITY CEOS occupy the executive suite at big charities, a new Chronicle survey shows: experts suggest ways to make more room at the top.

THE RECESSION has prompted diversity officers at large nonprofit organizations to take a different approach to their job.

NONPROFIT WORKERS who grew up poor or working class talk about finding a place in the charity world.

LEARN about efforts to aid young people who come from low-income families take nonprofit jobs.

A NEW "COMPACT" signed by charity leaders promises more-inclusive hiring and employment practices.

A "BOOT CAMP" for minority students offers them the opportunity to learn how to lead a nonprofit group in an array of roles.

HOW THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION is using online tools to reach out to minorities.

OPENING A DISCUSSION ON RACE has helped a Milwaukee youth charity become more inclusive.

HOW A NONPROFIT MANAGER handled an embarrassing situation with Muslim volunteers she had taken pains to recruit.

OPINION: ADVANCING THE NEEDS OF MINORITIES
Good grant making — not counting the numbers — will do the most to help the nation's most vulnerable people.