
12/28/2020
Top Google Recruiter: I was Fired After Pushing For More Black HBCU Engineers
Google has work to do!
Top Google Recruiter: I was Fired After Pushing For More Black HBCU Engineers
LeaderSpring's mission is to foster a powerful, equity-driven social sector by strengthening leaders and organizations; developing communities of leaders; and transforming the systems in which they work.
Since 1997, LeaderSpring has invested in the extraordinary talent, dedication, and vision of progressive grassroots leaders in the San Francisco Bay area. Through our signature leadership development program, we have equipped more than 240 social sector executives with the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to lead high-performing organizations and drive lasting change. LeaderSpring provides a two-year, on-the-job leadership training program for nonprofit executive directors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our dream is that leaders, organizations and communities in the social sector achieve their promise and potential to create a healthy and equitable society. Our values: -Leadership -Community Well-being -Equity -Collaboration -Head & Heart Find out more on our website.
Mission: LeaderSpring's mission is to foster high-performing nonprofits by strengthening and connecting the people who lead them.
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Google has work to do!
Top Google Recruiter: I was Fired After Pushing For More Black HBCU Engineers
Can you identify the issues in your org? If not, we can help.
Great lessons!
In summer 2014, I was hired as a new executive director serving a child refugee support organization in Dallas. The organization was in a financial crisis, had lost several significant partners, the program serving the c...
(Cross-posted in the other group) We will be targeted one-by-one unless we stand together. Please sign on if it is safe for your org to do so: An Open Letter In Support of Meaningful Conversation and Action to Address Systemic Racism in Government and all American Institutions. (U.S. orgs) This is to challenge the current executive order. [https://racialequityhere.org/open-letter/](https://racialequityhere.org/open-letter/?fbclid=IwAR02Rb8FYb3_N3liflOQpbBr4DP7MZbmI6Cqn3fUOrAZvYjIfblKXtbpo-o) // And, check out: [#bannedwords](https://twitter.com/hashtag/bannedwords?src=hashtag_click&fbclid=IwAR3ks4fGRofFzUG42jMFQQy_wbCcn8rlo1GHVA8ugqlCKBrWCMINMo6UvFM) is a campaign by Race Forward to counter the outgoing administration efforts to stop us from addressing systemic racism and white supremacy.
See Tweets about #bannedwords on Twitter. See what people are saying and join the conversation.
Across Generations: Michelle Obama and Her Mentees - The Michelle Obama Podcast
Part two of our discussion about mentorship features Michelle in conversation with her younger team members, in which they explore the ups and downs of professional life and what it’s like to be a black woman right now. Find the episode transcript here: https://spoti.fi/TMOP_transcripts
The importance of mentorship!
In part one of her discussion about mentorship, Michelle reminisces with her friend and former boss Valerie Jarrett about personal growth in the workplace. Find the episode transcript here: https://spoti.fi/TMOP_transcripts
Our 2020 Equity Series has an exciting line up of events this Fall. First up is our Board Summit happening Sept 9th. Check out the details for all the events and link to register on our website: https://www.leaderspring.org/events
"Many organizations have been applauded for these bold and vocal stances. But I’ve noticed another dangerous and more subversive trend that has largely been ignored. Multiple — primarily Black — leaders of nonprofit and youth-serving organizations have shared with me that they have faced negative backlash from “supporters” who found their statements off-putting."
When speaking out directly against injustice, our white counterparts are perceived as brave, while Black leaders see our anger weaponized.
👏Check out East Bay '18 Alum Brandon Nicholson tonight!
AIRING TONIGHT 📺: Watch NBC Bay Area at 6:30pm tonight to hear Brandon Nicholson (Executive Director of The Hidden Genius Project) join the conversation LIVE with Marcus Washington to discuss #RaceInAmerica. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 📸: Bittersweet Monthly
In case you missed it, check out the full show here: www.hiddengeniusproject.org/race-in-america-the-conversation-featuring-brandon-nicholson-ph-d/
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Thank you Building Movement Project for this important report.
One of the findings of our #RacetoLead report deals w/the concrete ways that structure & power in nonprofit orgs reinforce the benefits of whiteness. Our webinar panelists touched on this, adding that this 'white advantage' also impacts funding. Read more: https://buildingmovement.org/blog/three-takeaways-from-bmps-race-to-lead-revisited-webinar/
Black Women Mayors Healing and Leading Their Communities - Ms. Magazine
Black women mayors across the United States speak out against the murder of George Floyd on May 25 and actively bring their communites together.
The outcome of 1 day DEI training! 😒
An internal memo sent to Starbucks employees last week specifically warned staffers against wearing accessories or clothes bearing messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Meet Kiko Davis, the majority owner and stockholder of Detroit-based First Independence Bank, one of the top 10 largest Black-owned banks in the United States. This makes her the only Black woman in the country who owns a bank.
Meet Kiko Davis, the majority owner and stockholder of Detroit-based First Independence Bank, one of the top 10 largest Black-owned banks in the United States. This makes her the only Black woman in the country who owns a bank.
The time to give is now! 💪🏾
The Ford Foundation and four others plan to substantially increase their spending, a splurge financed in part by issuing debt.
Our misdirected philanthropy is costing us beyond measure. A mountain of evidence shows progressive victories are surging up from groups led by women of color, particularly black women, that build power on the ground — not trickling down from large Beltway organizations headed by white men.
And we all lose out.
No Going Back! A Covid-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide for Artists and Activists
https://backend.ccp.colab.coop/media/pdfs/CCP_Covid-19_3SCNaf1.pdf
It’s important to underscore this story because it counteracts a long-held false narrative that somehow women aren’t as well suited or prepared to be leaders—and that leadership in general, particularly as heads of state, is the more natural realm of men. This false notion can lead to many misconceptions with damaging outcomes. For example, it fosters a self-perpetuating belief that somehow women candidates aren’t electable or may be a political risk, which may be part of the reason we have yet to elect a female president here in the United States.
Why are female heads of state proving to be such exceptional leaders amid the pandemic? Ten esteemed women share their perspectives and highlight why now is the time for more women to be seated at decision-making tables.
And so we have an opportunity to imagine and create a different kind of workplace. We can choose to permanently change how we view each other, how we work together, validating each other’s experiences and fears and losses—not just in the current moment, but into and through whatever comes next. And the change that is possible within the microcosm of a workplace might also be possible in other workplaces, in a society, in the wider world.
For our communities, those missing and murdered, caged and dying, are not distant examples, invisible, or forgotten. They are our family and friends.
"In some ways, this is not surprising. Leaders of color in the sector have been talking about this for decades," says Peter Kim, Bridgespan’s chief learning and innovation officer, who co-authored the report. "But the gap was even more alarming than I anticipated."
A look at winners, finalists, and semifinalists in an Echoing Green fellowship program found that budgets of nonprofits led by whites were 24 percent bigger than those of groups led by people of color.
In Philanthropy, Race Is Still a Factor in Who Gets What, Study Shows
Nonprofit groups led by black and Latino directors lag behind peers with white leaders, but two leading philanthropic organizations hope to change that.
Can the world — as it currently is — be reprogrammed?
A place where words matter
The only way we can make a dent in social justice is if progressive nonprofits and foundations get over our disdain of politics and fully embrace using it to change unjust systems.
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Looking for examples of true leadership in a crisis? From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family. Add in Finland, Iceland and Denmark, and this pandemic is revealing that women have what it takes when the heat rises in our Houses of State. Many will say these are small countries, or islands, or other exceptions. But Germany is large and leading, and the UK is an island with very different outcomes. These leaders are gifting us an attractive alternative way of wielding power.
From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family.
"Foundations need to give more now to address critical needs rising from the global pandemic. But it is just as important to act thoughtfully and ensure that their solutions truly factor in the following questions: Who shapes the solutions? Who needs more at this moment? Whose work can transform our collective future?"
In responding to COVID-19, philanthropy needs to employ a racial justice lens that not only addresses immediate needs, but also supports a stronger future for all.
Join LeaderSpring alum Jessica Li for this free webinar on leading through Covid-19.
Webinar - COVID-19: Leadership in Times of Crisis
Madam C.J. Walker's Mansion to Become a Think Tank for Women of Color Entrepreneurs
Walker's property was designed and completed 100 years ago by Vertner Tandy, the first licensed Black architect in New York State, and a founder of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
“As you move through these changing times… be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to.”
“As you move through these changing times… be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find …
Nonprofits need women of color in leadership and to disrupt the structural barriers to their advancement
As a woman of color leading a nonprofit, I am no stranger to mansplaining. As a male colleague explains, I stare. Blink. Smirk. I then wait for them to stop explaining something I already know and und
Leadership program for our younger Sistahs! 🙅🏾♀️
At The Well Young Women's Leadership Academy has a summer program at Princeton University that celebrates 10 years of empowering minority youth to be global leaders.
"The original “Pet to Threat” study also advises Black women to consider taking on development opportunities outside of work to build experience as well as developing safe spaces (for example, relationships or places) to find affirmations for their achievements and contributions."
First your boss loves you, then they dislike you. Here’s how Black women can manage the icy transition.
"Equity is about redistribution that is proportional to those most impacted by harmful systems to make sure they get more. Equity is about staying in the system and liberation is about dismantling the system and moving into a space that is really unclear, and it will require that those who have been able to control the system will no longer be in that role.” -LSC alumna Liz Derias-Tyehimba at Leadership Learning Community's recent convening Creating Space
Talking about Liberation and Equityby Deborah Meehan One of my favorites parts of Creating Space Oakland, and there were many, was the Catalyst Conversation with Asia Alman from ACLU Northern California, Liz Derias-Tyehimba from CompassPoint, and Jamina Ovbude from The Greenlining Institute. The con...
A woman of color is enthusiastically hired by white leadership. She feels welcomed and excited to take on new challenges, to make a difference. Then she begins to experience and to identify harmful workplace norms. Perhaps she tries to point out inequities in the company culture or suggest possible solutions. That’s when the “honeymoon period”—if there was one—ends.
Chief Diversity Officers are often brought in to respond to an existing problem, clean up an organization’s image, or publicly signal a commitment to equity that does not exist.
Executive Director Sonia Manjon and Advisory Council member Yulkendy Valdez gave a joint TED talk at TEDxAlbany in December 2019. They presented LeaderSpring Center and Forefront’s collaborative research project to create viable pathways to increase participation and retention of women of color in the technology sector. Check out the talk below!
According to the Center for Talent Innovation, only 11% of Black women have sponsors in the workplace, and 75% of Hispanic women want “safe harbors”—places w...
LeaderSpring Center recognizes Zach Norris, LeaderSpring Alum (EB16), for his new book: We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, a groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment, available February 4th through Beacon Press. In We Keep Us Safe, Norris presents a bold vision for how the United States can achieve safety and security for everyone, especially the most precarious and vulnerable among us, by moving from the current fear-based model of safety (the Framework of Fear) to a care-based model (a Culture of Care). To support the publication click below!
The true cause of serious harms cannot be solved with a police force. We must move away from a framework of fear, towards a framework of care. It's time to redefine what #SafetyIs #WeKeepUsSafe #WednesdayWisdom http://zachnorris.com/
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