Paths Along the Way to Racial Justice: Four Foundation Case Studies

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DONATE Paths Along the Way to Racial Justice: Four Foundation Case Studies Interviews and case studies of the foundations were done by Lisa McGill, the principal of LM Strategies Consulting and Maggie Potapchuk, the principal of MP Associates. As structural racism analysis and concepts have evolved over the past 20 years, forward-thinking foundations have increasingly … Read more

The Leadership We Need:How People of Color Are Leadingthe #CultureSHIFT for Racial Equity

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DONATE The Leadership We Need:How People of Color Are Leadingthe #CultureSHIFT for Racial Equity Malkia Amala Cyril is the founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice. This essay examines the centrality of strategies for media rights, access and representation as part of a comprehensive strategy for racial equity; and the role of … Read more

Funding at the Intersection of Race and Gender

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DONATE Funding at the Intersection of Race and Gender Kalpana Krishnamurthy is the policy director at Forward Together. Intersectionality is a term that comes up a lot in social justice work. It comes up when community groups are trying to describe how policies affect multiple people’s identities. It comes up when organizers are trying to … Read more

Support the Right People to Do the Right Things

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DONATE Support the Right People to Do the Right Things Last summer, sponsors of California Assembly Bill 624 dropped legislation that had been introduced in 2007 and passed by the Assembly in January 2008. If it had been enacted, AB624 would have required funders to report on the race of their grant recipients’ leaders. Many … Read more

Racial Equity Online Toolkit from Funders for LGBTQ Issues

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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

Critical Issues Forum II: What About Capacity Building for the Capacity Builders? (Foundations & Intermediaries)

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DONATE Critical Issues Forum II: What About Capacity Building for the Capacity Builders? (Foundations & Intermediaries) This past June, three California foundations—the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—unveiled a program of $5.75 million in capacity-building grants to nine intermediary organizations that would provide TA and … Read more