Arts and Culture Funders Community of Practice

Please join fellow arts funders on February 7th at 2:00pm for both a catch-up and a part two discussion exploring the relationship between funder and nonprofit through the lens of racial equity.  We will be joined by Arreon Harley-Emerson, the Director of Music & Operations at Choir School of Delaware, who has written, spoken, and consulted on systemic racism in philanthropy.  We will discuss the importance of language, equitable access to grantmakers, the power imbalance in grantmaking, and conscious and unconscious bias. There will be time for discussion and Q&A, which will be followed by roundtable sharing and updates.  

Resources & Links

• Learning Opportunity: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's Unconscious Bias 4-part workshop series, two sessions in February (2/10 and 2/24)
• Learning Opportunity: Philanthropy Network hosted Trust Based Philanthropy Cohort - applications open until Fri, 2/11 at 5:00 PM
• Website: Equity Sings
• Article: ‘You Can’t Lift People Up by Putting Them Down’: How to Talk About Tough Issues of Race, Poverty, and More, By Trabian Shorters, June 26, 2019 Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Article: #PhilanthropySoWhite #NonprofitsSoWhite: We can do better, Delaware, Delaware Online, Arreon Harley-Emerson, July 12, 2020
• Article: The opposite of deficit-based language isn't asset-based language. It's Truth Telling. Shelterforce, By Miriam Axel-Lute, November 12, 2019
• Resource: Sample language shared by Bartol Foundation
• Resource: DEI vocabulary via the Avarna Group

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