Organizers say the Center for Leadership Equity aims to support, advocate for and invest in Black nonprofit executives in Philadelphia. About 30 years ago, Kelly Woodland was the executive director of a community development nonprofit in Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood. Woodland remembers what it was like to lead a small organization with nearly a dozen employees on a razor-thin budget in the 1990s. It’s not uncommon for Black nonprofit leaders to do philanthropic work inspired by injustice experienced in their own lives, which makes the work very personal, Woodland said.