In a recent Chronicle of Philanthropy article a suggestion was made that to increase the diversity of boards, nonprofits should consider shifting their requirements for give/get and put the donor-trustees on another body for raising money. This suggestion though does imply that people of color aren't inherently givers or getters - perhaps because they are people of color? Not liking it.
Donors can bring about a revolution in gender and race diversity on boards, just as investors have done at private companies, say authors of a new study. In an opinion essay based on their study of college and hospital trustees, Carolyn T. Adams and Vikki Kramer, say that donors should push for better balances in the boardroom because it leads to more effective governance. Part of the solution, they say, is to stop thinking about trustee slots as a perk for people who give large sums of money and find another way for those donors to serve the institution. “Assigning fundraising to a separate board is preferable to reducing financial requirements for trustees who are women and people of color,” they write.