Month: November 2018

DONATE Multiracial Coalitions and Transformation with Manuel Pastor and Marqueece Harris-Dawson Marqueece Harris-Dawson is the president and CEO of Community Coalition, a social justice nonprofit organization based in South Los Angeles. Harris-Dawson came to the helm of Community Coalition in 2004 after years of hard work as a community organizer – leading the organization to … Read more

DONATE Communications and Community Organizing: Better Together Makani Themba is the former executive director of The Praxis Project, based in Washington, DC. History teaches us that change is often made when an organized segment of those most affected, leading in solidarity with allies, disrupts the ability of those in power to conduct business as usual. … Read more

DONATE Foundation Governance By Rick Cohen Denise Perry works for the Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD)project. She has been organizing for nearly 30 years. When I was the director of an organization that worked with Black and Latino youth in Miami, I noticed that music helped create a form of communication that fostered … Read more

DONATE Funders Discuss Approaches to Organizing Against Structural Racism Ronald White is the founder and principle consultant to Building Utopia Consulting LLC. He is currently the interim executive director of Southern Partners fund. Because structural racism is mostly hidden, philanthropic support for community organizing efforts that explicitly names and fights the problem has been rare. … Read more

DONATE 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 … Read more

DONATE Critical Issues Forum Vol 3. Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice, is the third volume of the Critical Issues Forum series, which aims 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 … Read more

DONATE Foreword – Critical Issues Forum Vol. 3 Quinn Delaney is founder and President of Akonadi Foundation, an Oakland, California based foundation working to support and nurture a racial justice movement to put an end to the structural racism that lies at the heart of social inequity in the United States. Working in the area … Read more

DONATE Introduction – Critical Issues Forum Vol. 3 Lori Villarosa is the executive director and founder of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE), a multiyear project intended to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism. Lori has worked in philanthropy for more than 18 years; prior to … Read more

DONATE Getting on the Right Road: Up-Front Assessment is Key Maya Wiley is the Executive Director of the Center for Social Inclusion, a policy and advocacy organization which works to transform structural inequity and exclusion into structural inclusion. A civil rights attorney and policy advocate since 1989, Ms. Wiley has worked for the ACLU, NAACP … Read more

DONATE Systems Thinking, Evaluation and Racial Justice Professor john powell is the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University and Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. An internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, … Read more