In Search of Board Diversity
Foraker president Dennis McMillian's latest Letter from the President discusses the need for board diversity and how to get there.
He elaborates on these ideas:
1. Use the tools we advocate in training for good board recruitment and retention.
2. Recruit true believers.
3.Tokenism is not a strategy.
4. Don’t rush to recruit.
"I found that almost every organization was encouraged to recruit a more diverse board," says McMillian. "Looking at my own board back then, I realized that it also lacked diversity. It especially lacked involvement of Alaska Natives. In other words, board diversity has been a big issue in this state for a while, and unfortunately almost 20 years later, we seem to have made little progress."
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