Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
Building Resources to End Racism
DONATE Where are we going with that? Use Transformational Goals to Measure Racial Equity Work Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and Publisher of ColorLines Magazine is a leading figure in the racial justice movement. Rinku has written extensively about immigration, community organizing and women’s lives for a wide … Read more
DONATE Identifying Markers of Change at Multiple Levels Interview with Western States Center Dan Petegorsky and Kalpana Krishnamurthy are staff members of Western States Center, which was established to help strengthen and further develop the progressive movement in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. For more than two decades, the center has served … Read more
DONATE We Need Tools, Capacity and Partnership Interview with National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Since 1986 the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) has served as a forum to share information and analysis, build community capacity, raise awareness, strategize and coordinate national efforts toward securing healthy, safe and peaceful lives for … Read more
DONATE Rigorous Self-Assessment Helps Keep Us on Track Interview with Miami Workers Center Gihan Perera and Badili Jones of the Miami Workers Center (MWC) reflected on evaluation of their organization’s work in relationship to its deep neighborhood and community organizing over the last 10 years and how evaluation will fit into plans to organize statewide with … Read more
DONATE Foundations Share Approaches to Evaluating Racial Justice Work Soya Jung is a consultant for non profits and public interest projects, providing project management and organizational development services to local and national organizations. From 2001 to 2006 she was the Grants and Program Director for the Social Justice Fund NW, and played a key role … Read more
DONATE Measuring Progress, Reducing Structural Racism: How Do We Know it When We See It? Sally Leiderman is President of the non-profit Center for Assessment and Policy Development. She is an experienced evaluator of efforts aimed at reducing institutional racism, supporting racial equity or building more inclusive communities, including Project Change; the Bridging Initiative of … Read more
DONATE Structural Racism and Critical Participatory Evaluation Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY has taught at CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Participatory Action Research Collective. Michelle’s research has been organized through participatory action research and focuses how youth think … Read more
DONATE Communities of Practice: A Process for Evaluating Racial Justice Work? Maggie Potapchuk is the founder of MP Associates, dedicated to building the capacity of organizations and communities to effectively address racism and privilege issues for building a just and inclusive society. She co-created racialequitytools.org and evaluationtoolsforracialequity.org. Her research includes Community Change Processes and Progress … Read more
DONATE Critical Issues Forum Vol. 3 Resource Listing The link above lists a few of the many publications, journal articles and websites that address the core issues built upon in this volume, including structural racism and systems thinking, culturally competent and participatory evaluation, and/or evaluations that address issues of advocacy, social justice, diversity or equity. … Read more
DONATE Foreword – Critical Issues Vol. 1 Gara LaMarche, a long-time human and civil rights advocate, is president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies. Before joining Atlantic, LaMarche served as vice president and director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute. The debate inside and outside California about AB 624, the state bill that … Read more