![]() The first job posting in the Director Network is from Diligent itself as the Diligent board of directors seeks to add an additional independent director, ideally with a racially diverse background. “There is no doubt that successful and visionary corporate leadership today requires diverse viewpoints, perspectives, and experiences that create a richer fabric for guidance and decision making, and Modern Leadership is meant to help organizations create their best futures,” continued Mr. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We hope other companies will join us to create more board and C-Suite opportunities for diverse talent.” ![]() “By increasing the number and visibility of diverse board members, truly changing composition from the top, we believe organizations will be able to better serve stakeholders and create long-lasting, positive change in the world. “Diligent is committed to being a catalyst for greater diversity and inclusion, starting with the highest levels of leadership – and we are using our network of nearly 700,000 board directors and leaders to help drive that change,” said Brian Stafford, CEO of Diligent. Opening an offer to Diligent’s clients to post open board and executive roles within Director Network for visibility and transparency for diverse rising directors.Partnering with organizations that have a track record and mission for diversifying board rooms and executive suites – including The Executive Leadership Council, Ascend, Latino Corporate Directors Association, and National Association of Corporate Directors – to promote and create opportunities for their members.Spencer Stuart has long recognized the value of board diversity – last year, minority executives and women comprised more than 60% of their placements in the U.S. Partnering with Spencer Stuart, a leading executive search and leadership advisory firm, to post board searches in the Diligent application creating more transparency for diverse candidates to apply for those roles.The 10+ private equity firms that have each committed to posting five open board roles include Insight Partners, Clearlake Capital, Vista Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Hg, Genstar Capital, TA Associates, K1 Investment Management, Aurora Capital Partners, and Grain Management. Teaming up with leading private equity firms to post more than 50 board roles for increased visibility and transparency for diverse director candidates.Activating Diligent’s network of nearly 700,000 board directors and leaders across 16,000 organizations to nominate diverse, board-ready executives to build a database of largely untapped talent that will be searchable free of charge within the Diligent application.“If these dollars become available, we don’t want to create a mass exodus of students by moving too soon,” she said. She says the board understands it may need to make tough choices, but is calling on state leaders to provide funding to prevent at least some planned cuts as soon as possible. “For all those parents that continue to remain diligent and active, just continue to show up,” said Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, Detroit School Board Member, says parents’ voices have an impact. Plus, due to inflation, costs are up - leading to a projected budget gap of about $37 million. So why is this happening? The Detroit Public Schools Community District says the pandemic contributed to enrollment drops of about two thousand children, a loss of $20 million in revenue. She says aside from helping with learning if a little one needs supervision as they walk to the bathroom - a paraprofessional is able to help. ![]() She says when her 2-year-old eventually enters kindergarten - she hopes his class has a paraprofessional or teacher assistant. I couldn’t imagine having 22 or 30 kids by myself,” said Courtney Banks.īanks says she used to be a kindergarten paraprofessional - and it is an important job. “The millions of dollars our children receive from scholarships and funding that comes from collaboration between school counselors and advisors we cannot afford to lose one,” said Lakia Wilson-Lumpkins, the President of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. ![]() “To remove that layer of support, it leaves a void for those students,” said Donna Jackson, the Detroit Federation of Paraprofessionals President. The district says most of these workers would be moved into other positions. It would also eliminate the positions of 24 college transition advisers. The district shared a plan earlier this year that cut the positions of 91 general education paraprofessionals and 95 school culture facilitators. The next school board meeting will address that on Tuesday, May 16 at 5:30. How could possible cuts impact your children? Now that the pandemic is over the district is having to make some adjustments. DETROIT (WXYZ) - The Detroit Public Schools Community District received about $1.3 billion in federal aid meant to help students recover from the pandemic.
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