Trustees of Color

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Trustees of Color First Board Diversity Expo an overwhelming success! Wilmington, DE, April 15, 2008 - The Trustees of Color (TOC) presented its first Board Diversity Expo on April 10. Thirty-eight nonprofit agencies provided information about their mission to 80 potential board candidates of color.
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OBJECTIVES

To expand the pool of available candidates for open board positions.

To enable individuals with strong leadership skills to make a difference in their community by matching them with nonprofit boards that share their commitment and interests.

To assist nonprofit organizations in gaining new perspectives and creating innovative programs by expanding their level of multiracial leadership.

To ensure that trustees of color are "ready, willing and able" to effectively apply their skills through appropriate training, development and mentoring.

To ensure that nonprofits are "ready, willing and able" to be fully inclusive through appropriate orientation and training.

To foster leadership development in Delaware.

To attract younger people to charitable work.

To strengthen and empower nonprofit organizations so they are better able to serve the communities in which they work.

To develop a network for people of color to discuss common issues and concerns as well as have a stronger voice in resolving community needs and issues.

To create a sustainable and systematic approach that will ensure that such participation by persons of color will continue long into the future.

To develop a model that can be replicated in other communities.

Trustees of Color is set to change the face of Delaware’s nonprofit community…if you are ready to take this journey with us, please get involved!