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Day 3 Concurrent Session - Looking Back to Move Forward: Understanding How Use of An Evaluation of Past Practices Can Create Equity
WOMEN'S WAY and Strategy Arts collaborated to create the racial Equity Audit tool to evaluate whether current practices perpetuate inequities and to spur intentional action to incorporate racial equity in policies and practices. The process also supported planning of implementing actions and strategies over short-term and long-term periods that center racial equity, lived experience expertise, and reprioritize cultural norms that stem from white supremacist notions and culture.
Day 1 Concurrent Session - The Whole Entrepreneur: Designing a Just and Equitable Business Ecosystem for Black and People of Color Businesses
While Black and Latinx residents make up 42% and 15% of the population respectively, they only own 8% and 3% of small businesses in the city. Annually, business owners of color in Philadelphia earn only 13% of revenue compared to their white counterparts. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a renewed pursuit for social justice, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, the City of Philadelphia, and PIDC have embarked on an endeavor to understand and address the unique needs of small businesses owned by Black and people of color, women, and immigrants in Philadelphia.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Tackling Systemic Racism Through Your Endowment
How can investors use their capital to tackle systemic racism and advance the well-being for communities of color? This session explores how investors/ foundations can use their capital to address systemic racism and better support communities of color. The financial industry has a responsibility to better understand how it distributes wealth, resources and power in our economy.
Closing the Gender Wealth Gap Forum
One Year Later: How Has COVID-19 Reshaped Philanthropy?
Report Launch: Women’s Index: Developing a Tool for Aligning Financial Investments with Gender Equity.
From Access to Empowerment: Elevating Equity and Community Voice Beyond the Pandemic
2021 Annual Journalism Funders Gathering
Closing the Gender Wealth Gap: Intersections of Reproductive Justice and Economic Justice
Uniting Americans Through Service: The Power of Americorps and Philanthropy Working in Partnership
Bridging the Gaps 32nd Annual Symposium
Drexel University’s Action for Early Learning: Creating Circles of Support for Children and Families in Philadelphia | Presented by William Penn Foundation
Since 2014, the Action for Early Learning (AFEL) Initiative has worked to provide more equitable access to quality early childhood education in the high-need, high-poverty neighborhood of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone. As Drexel University’s early learning improvement initiative, AFEL has created a place-based model that puts the child at the center of an early childhood education eco-system, which now has 35% more children in high quality care since its inception.