Putting the AB 624 Agreement into Practice and Policy

DONATE Putting the AB 624 Agreement into Practice and Policy A backroom deal in mid-2008 on assistance to minority-serving nonprofits in California followed by an end-of-the-year release of a plan of foundation assistance ostensibly to promote more grant support for racially diverse communities has closed a Pandora’s box that foundations had no desire to leave … Read more

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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