Intersection of Community Organizing and Racial Justice Funding: Limited Data and Limited Dollars
Rick Cohen is the national correspondent of the Nonprofit Quarterly magazine, (NPQ).
Among the thousands of possible subjects in the Foundation Center’s online database of some 2.4 million grants from over 100,000 private foundation, corporate and public charity grantmakers, the terms “community organizing” and “civic engagement” do not appear as subjects or topics around which grants are organized and counted. In light of the litany of foundation-supported and published reports attesting to the importance of community organizing in social change strategies, the absence of “community organizing” and “civic engagement” as official categories used by the Foundation Center is striking.
