Limited leadership: An examination of Houston nonprofit board diversity and whether selection processes and executive director perceptions of governance models affect composition.

摘要

onprofit governing board diversity recently gained attention from scholars, and the changing demographics of the United States' population create urgency around understanding how to diversify nonprofit boards. This study examined nonprofit board diversity in the largest majority-minority city in the United States---Houston, Texas---which was also declared the most diverse city in the country in the 2010 Census. GuideStar was used to identify nonprofit organizations in the Houston metropolitan area with annual revenue of