FOR INDIVIDUALS: Development professionals and leaders face many tough challenges. For nonprofit leaders of color, those challenges can be compounded by discrimination within the very organizations where they hope to make a difference. The tools below support a variety of challenges, all viewed through the unique lens that development professionals and leaders of color experience.

How to Ask for Money

Meet the Moment: Help Your Nonprofit Survive (and Thrive) in 2020 and beyond

Hosting Successful (Virtual) Fundraising Events

FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND SENIOR LEADERS: Nonprofits are as strong as the investments they make in their teams and their ability to rise to the commitments made in their missions. To do this, organizations must not only hire diverse staff at all levels, they have to set them up to succeed. Too often, fundraisers and leaders of color can experience feelings of scrutiny and isolation, instead of support and community. Investing in your diverse staff and ensuring that they have access to tools and strategies as well as supportive mentors will help your organization live up to the ideals that are so important to this work. Below are some tools to assist organizations as they work to welcome and value all voices.

It Starts at the Top: Inclusive Board Development