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- Title
Environmental nonprofits and Institutional diversity: An Analysis of diversity practices, demographics, and implications for sustainability.
- Authors
Olanrewaju-Lasisi, Taiwo
- Abstract
Institutional diversity is recognized to be an essential organizational capacity for improving organizational success and sustainability. In the same light, environmental organizations have been recognized for using organizational capacities to enhance human and environmental health and advance sustainability by typically looking for the unmet needs and leveraging their resources to meet such needs in different and diverse vulnerable communities. This qualitative study examines the level of institutional diversity practices in Virginia's environmental nonprofits' board and staff composition, using Virginia's nonprofits as a case study. The study adopts community engagement/representation and resource dependency theory to explain the importance of improving environmental nonprofits' board and staff diversity demographics. Also, a secondary data collection strategy and a coding analysis were used to collect and analyze the racial and gender diversity demographics of 82 Virginia land conservation environmental organizations, as reported on eco.usa website and on GuideStar official website. The research analyzes the gender and racial composition of these organizations' board of directors and staff members, as provided on GuideStar. The study also examined the percentage of data of racial and gender representation of the board of directors and staff and board diversity practices to examine the level of institutional diversity in environmental nonprofits. The study found a low level of diversity practices and diversity demographics in the racial representation of Virginia environmental nonprofits.
- Publication
Virginia Social Science Journal, 2021, Vol 55, p115
- ISSN
0507-1305
- Publication type
Academic Journal