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Key Findings in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Education

PR Newswire Jul 13, 2018
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Giving Compass’ Take:

• The New Schools Venture Fund released a study last year that found fascinating results about diversity and inclusion within education, primarily in regard to the percentages of teachers that actually represented the demographics of the students. 

• How can DEI efforts help propel education forward? What are the benefits for the students? 

• Read about the range of results and effectiveness in teachers that go through racial bias training.


NewSchools Venture Fund 2017 study “Unrealized Impact,” was a groundbreaking study on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the education sector.

This study is based on input from more than 200 education organizations and nearly 5,000 individuals, and was authored by Xiomara Padamsee, CEO of Promise54, and Becky Crowe, Senior Adviser, Bellwether Education Partners.

Among the key findings in the report, DEI practices have a positive impact on staff recruitment, retention and overall favorability. Among Advanced DEI Organizations, 88 percent of staff promote the organization, and 61 percent of staff – regardless of race – reported that they intend to stay in their organizations for the next three years.

However, the percentage of Black and Latino leaders in American education, when compared to Black and Latino PreK-12 students, remains unbalanced. This is especially troubling given changing student demographics. In our sample, Whites represent 24 percent of students, 49 percent of staff at education organizations, 64 percent of leadership, and 74 percent of CEOs. Blacks and Latinos represent 61 percent of students, 41 percent of staff at education organizations, 24 percent of leadership and 17 percent of CEOs.

“As American students have become a more racially diverse population over the past decade, there is a stark difference between those who are doing the work and the racial demographics of the communities we serve,” said Frances Messano, managing partner, NewSchools Venture Fund.

Read  the full report on diversity, equity, and inclusion by Elly Stolnitz at PR Newswire. 

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    Giving Compass' Take: • KPMG East Africa’s International Development Advisory Services (IDAS) firm helps rally impact investors and development finance institutions to invest private finance grants in the development of Africa.  •  Will the future of development work rely on blended and private finance models?  • Read about where impact investing will go next.  Enough of the arguments about the trade-off between profit and impact. Impact investors now have a “trade-on” opportunity, says Arif Naqvi, founder of the global investment group Abraaj. Naqvi coined the term at the UN General Assembly in September, declaring that investors can improve financial returns by creating social value. To achieve SDG 1—ending poverty in all its forms everywhere—we have to find a way to help people with low incomes, who live in high-risk countries, small markets, or remote areas with low population densities and weak infrastructure, where it is still very hard to make money. That may seem like good news in light of the $5 trillion to $7 trillion annual Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) financing bill the international aid world hopes to meet with private sector investment. And yet there’s one important problem: Most poor people live in places where investors won’t go. We built a wide network of impact investors and development finance institutions that have completed successful deals with the companies we work with, but feedback from the investors suggested that most of the companies in the portfolio were “nearly uninvestable.” Many were small or had a small market size, or had operations in high-risk or post-conflict states. So how do we reach people in the dozens of other countries and thousands of communities where many investors won’t go? We think private-sector development grants still have several essential roles to play: Driving coherent development Working with “uninvestable companies”  Working in frontier markets Paying for the sunk early-stage costs of innovation and market entry Leveraging blended finance at the right time in the right way Kickstart business development service markets Read the full article on private sector grants   by Rachel Keeler at Stanford Social Innovation Review


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