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04Jun2020

The Crisis of White Supremacy in America: What’s Philanthropy’s Role?

Thursday, June 4, 2020
9:00am - 10:30am
Video Conference
... Taylor, and George Floyd at the hands of the police and white citizens and the civil unrest across this nation, ... seeing unfold is the culmination of centuries of traumatic white supremacy over the lives of Black people in this ... to do at this time? What can philanthropy do to dismantle white supremacy and advance social justice? Before we can ...
16Jul2020

Philanthropy’s Imperative: How to Discuss White Supremacy with Staff, Boards, and Nonprofit Partners

Thursday, July 16, 2020
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Video Conference
... with staff, boards, and nonprofit partners about White Supremacy. How can we be sure that these conversations ... Network, 6/4/20) Session recording:  The Crisis of White Supremacy in America: What’s Philanthropy’s Role? ... model. Philanthropy’s Imperative: How to Discuss White Supremacy with Staff, Boards, and Nonprofit Partners ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement

Published: 
03/2017

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change intends to spark new energy to vitalize and strengthen the infrastructure for Black-led organizations. The 18-page document was issued by the Black Social Change Funders Network (BSCFN), an initiative forged by the leadership of ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities and the Hill-Snowdon Foundation.

Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

Published: 
05/2019
... in which we manipulated the race of the managing partner (White or Black) and the strength of the fund’s credentials ... (stronger or weaker). Asset allocators favored the White-led, racially homogenous team when credentials were ...

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practical Guide centers the perspectives of racial justice activists first, and then of funders working on change in their institutions, to identify best practices for driving philanthropy beyond racial equity toward racial justice.

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019

In 2018, Funders for LGBTQ Issues set out to survey the board and staff of foundations in order to identify how many LGBTQ people worked in philanthropy. In the process, the organization realized that it had an opportunity to not only ask about sexual orientation and gender identity but also to inquire about a range of personal identifiers. With the inaugural Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) Survey, Funders for LGBTQ Issues asked participants to identify their role within their foundation, their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, and disability status. This report lays out the results of the DAPP survey in aggregate form.

What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice

Published: 
10/2018

An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to one that centers equity/racial equity, so that it is more aligned with the values and intentions of current day philanthropic endeavors.

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

Published: 
12/2019

ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities (ABFE), recently conducted a study to learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their interactions with institutional philanthropy.

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... the act of depicting women in the world, often through a white, masculine, heterosexual perspective. While objectivity ... example, if I, as a Black woman, walk into a room with 100 white men talking, my presence will likely impact what they ... I tell it will be significantly different from the way a white male journalist would tell the story. Conversely, as a ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Fund Focused on Black-Led Nonprofits Serving Black Communities in Greater Philadelphia

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... —   How African American-led Organizations Differ from White-led Organizations: Research Report on African American ... reserves and are more dependent on government grants than white-led organizations. These factors can make Black-led ... in government, and thus more financially precarious than white-led organizations. Community Support Philadelphia ...

Black Community Leaders Fund: Q&A with Philadelphia Foundation's Phil Fitzgerald

Philadelphia Foundation
Friday, May 21, 2021
... reserves and are more dependent on government grants than white-led organizations. These factors can make Black-led ... in government, and thus more financially precarious than white-led organizations.  Further, Black leaders of ...

FAQ: Trust-Based Philanthropy Cohort with a Racial Equity Lens

2022 Trust-Based Philanthropy Cohort
Thursday, January 27, 2022
... that has perpetuated a racial wealth gap. Meanwhile, white dominant norms and perspectives have informed and ... will include an examination of power inequity vis-à-vis white dominant culture, structures, and norms; a history of ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... differences between African American–led nonprofits and white-led nonprofits , and she’s been a featured face at ... boards — and it’s the same in reverse for white-led organizations. As Matlock-Turner sees it, there are ... men and four women, including six people of color, four white people, one teenager, a former foster youth, parents of ...