What it Takes: Supporting New BIPOC Executives

Author: Bipasha Ray, New Executives Fund Project
Publisher: Philanthropy New York
Resource Type: Article
Principle: Supporting Community Leadership

A wave of nonprofit leadership transitions is upon us. The COVID-19 pandemic, a deep economic recession, and an era of racial reckoning are leading to a number of nonprofit leaders in a variety of fields and movements in the United States to step down. Their successors, many of them BIPOC and female, have the vision and new ideas to rejuvenate their organizations and constituencies, and to reach for social and racial equity in ways that were hard to imagine just a few years ago. As these new leaders step in, major funders have to step up to offer responsible financial and other support.