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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

Philanthropy & Diversity The following lists are not exhaustive, but do provide a range of resources that deal directly with the intersection of philanthropy and racial equity and/or diversity or explicitly address issues of institutional and structural racism. Click on title for link to reports. Click here for a pdf of these resources (including additional … Read more

The new LGBTQ Racial Equity Online Toolkit and Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ overarching campaign really exemplifies that “multi-issue” does not have to mean diluted or fuzzy messages, as is often implied by various “diversity” conversations. But in fact, as shown in these commentaries by PRE Advisory Board members Kalpana Krishnamurthy and Rinku Sen, and other pieces shared … Read more

                           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

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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