Funders Discuss Approaches to Organizing Against Structural Racism

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

Intersection of Community Organizing and Racial Justice Funding: Limited Data and Limited Dollars

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

Critical Issues Forum Vol 3.

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

Foreword – Critical Issues Forum Vol. 3

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

Introduction – Critical Issues Forum Vol. 3

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

Getting on the Right Road: Up-Front Assessment is Key

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

Systems Thinking, Evaluation and Racial Justice

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

Where are we going with that? Use Transformational Goals to Measure Racial Equity Work

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

Identifying Markers of Change at Multiple Levels Interview with Western States Center

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