Critical Issue Forum Vol. 4

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