University of North Carolina Center for Banking and Finance

The Director Diversity Initiative at the UNC School of Law is the joint project of the Center for Banking and Finance and the Center for Civil Rights. The objective of the Initiative is to encourage boards of directors of public companies to increase their gender, racial, and ethnic diversity.

With Dream Fund support, the Initiative works to enhance awareness of the benefits of greater diversity on corporate boards, provide training for potential diverse board members, maintain a web-based clearinghouse of director diversity resources, and provide a director diversity database on which potential diverse directors may register. Based on its research and interviews of corporate directors, executives, and executive search firm personnel, the Director Diversity Initiative will publish one or more papers discussing how director diversity impacts board processes and corporate performance.