Understanding Racism as a Structural Issue Serves to Promote American Values

                           The topics of race and racism have hit the headlines in the last few months, in both electoral politics and philanthropy, providing an opening for a national discourse that we seldom have in our country.  Yet too many of those discussions have been sensationalized and divisive rather than constructive.  In the current … Read more

First Discussion Questions

Please share your reactions or concerns about the current debate. We are posing a few questions to get started, but invite you to pose others as well.  What racial/ethnic and gender and sexual orientation information do you find your funders asking you for—or do you as a funder ask for–either in applications, in program reports, … Read more

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