Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
Building Resources to End Racism
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
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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