The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is a multiyear project intended to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.
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September 23 - 24, 2010, Chicago, IL
The Applied Research Center's Facing Race Conference
Marking Progress: Evaluating Movement Toward Racial Justice
October 27, 2010, New Orleans, LA
Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference
Onsite Seminar: How Grantmaking Practices Can Advance or Hinder Racial Equity
For full details on all events, visit our news page.
Thursday and Friday, May 27 and 28, 2010, Oakland, CA
The California Endowment [Closed Event]
Racial Justice Training Institute
Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Grantmakers
The Economy and Racial Equity: Strategies to Increase Recovery for All
Saturday, April 24, 2010, Denver, CO
Emerging Partners in Philanthropy National Conference
Racial Justice and Philanthropy: Experiences from the Field
We are pleased to announce the publication of Critical Issues Forum, Vol. 3, Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice, the third volume of a series aiming to deepen the discourse around important progressive racial justice issues within philanthropy. In this journal nine authors tackle the problems and prospects of evaluating racial justice work, raising some of the key issues they feel the field and its funders need to consider and explore further in order to understand the true impact of our work.
Last August, PRE embarked on a year-long project to spark discussion that could build on best practices within evaluation and how those should be applied to efforts aimed at reducing structural racism. The effort began with discussion and debate with some key advocates, activists and evaluators working on these issues at national and local levels, and was followed by similar discussions of funders, and then among additional local activists.
This publication shares the views of several of these thought leaders, as they synthesize the ways evaluation can be most effective when measuring the progress being made towards achieving racial justice.
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November 2009 - Funders for LGBTQ Issues launches their Racial Equity Online Toolkit
PRE applauds this impressive resource, which provides a range of grantmaking tools, commentaries and best practices to support grantmakers in implementing an LGBTQ racial equity lens into their grantmaking and internal operations. We congratulate everyone at Funders for LGBTQ Issues for their strong and strategic leadership on this important issue.
Please visit www.lgbtracialequity.org for more information and to view the toolkit.
September 2009 - Woods Fund of Chicago Announces Racial Equity Core Principle
"The Woods Fund of Chicago has chosen to employ a racial equity lens and adopt this core principle to help our foundation think more intentionally about addressing inequities both internally, within the communities in which we operate, and beyond." Woods Fund President Deborah Harrington cites PRE's work, including convening of the Racial Justice Funders Roundtable and Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens publication (in partnership with GrantCraft) as having informed the decision to adopt this lens.
PRE appreciates Woods Fund's gracious acknowledgment, and more importantly, commends the Woods staff, board and grantee partners for their leadership and commitment to racial equity within philanthropy!
February 2009 - PRE appreciates the historically groundbreaking work of the members of the Joint Affinity Groups and applauds their recent renewed collective call for actions in this Open Letter to the Philanthropic Sector. This letter was published in the February 12, 2009 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
