A Plan To Help Diversify Chicago Arts Leadership

The Chicago Community Trust is investing $1 million in a program to try to diversify management of the city’s cultural institutions. “The trust cited data showing that non-Hispanic whites fill 88 percent of the management positions of arts and cultural institutions nationwide. Among the six participant institutions, whites compose 82 percent of management posts, African-Americans 9 percent, Latinos 5 percent and Asians 4 percent.”