Lack of Women in Top Roles Hinders Nonprofits, Female Nonprofit Workers Say

Nonprofits, especially the largest ones, are missing out on donations from women and hurting their missions by not putting more females in board and leadership jobs, according to a new poll commissioned by The Chronicle of Philanthropy and New York University’s George H. Heyman Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, of nearly 650 women who work at nonprofits. Many women have ambition to get to the top: Fifty-seven percent of those who were not already CEOs said they aspire to lead a nonprofit.