Commonwealth Fund July 30, 2024
TOPLINES
Diverse workplaces are more innovative and higher performing than those lacking diversity, but U.S. nonprofits often fall short in this area
By taking a more intentional approach to engaging grantees outside their existing networks, philanthropic organizations can help foster diversity in the nonprofit sector
To ensure the Commonwealth Fund achieves its mission of advancing affordable, high-quality care for everyone, we must also ensure we are truly partnering with everyone, including grantees. These grantees should be representative of a varied and diverse population, with work that has a broad-ranging impact.
In 2020, the Commonwealth Fund set out to better understand our performance in this area, with an aim to see who we were supporting as a grantmaking organization. We worked...