Racial Equity
Cal Wellness Commits $13 Million to Improve Health of Women of Color
The foundation announced new initiatives designed to address health issues that disproportionately affect women of color....
Housing Is Key to Bay Area's Economic Future, Study Finds
Although the effects of the housing crisis are far-reaching, they affect low-income communities of color first and hardest, exacerbating longstanding racial inequities....
Kellogg Expands Matching Program to Baobá Fund for Racial Equity
WKKF will match Brazilian donor contributions to the Baobá Fund on a three-to-one basis and international donations on a two-to-one basis, with half going to an endowment and the other half supporting programming....
A Challenge to Philanthropy: Expand Health and Educational Opportunities for Native American Youth
April 6, 2018Edgar Villanueva, vice president of programs and advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education, urges philanthropy to do more to expand health and educational opportunities for Native American youth....
African Americans See Civil Rights Goals as Largely Unachieved
A survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., only 8 percent of African Americans think all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement have been achieved....
PND spoke with Eagle Heart about the dearth of research on Native communities in the United States, the need for greater education to raise awareness of Native issues, and the role racial healing can and must play in bringing equity to indigenous cultures....
Racial Gaps in Upward Mobility Persist Even Among the Rich
The report from the Equality of Opportunity Project finds that African-American men face obstacles to intergenerational economic mobility in ways that cannot be explained by parents' marital status, educational attainment, or wealth....
2018 County Health Rankings Highlight Disparities by Place and Race
The annual study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute compares county-level data across more than thirty factors that influence health outcomes....
Public Welfare Foundation Announces New Grantmaking Focus
The new Special Opportunities program will offer one-time grants to help catalyze and replicate innovative work in the areas of race, redemption, and restoration....
PND spoke with Goren about the process the Meyer Foundation initiated in 2014 to develop and implement a racial equity agenda, the importance of doing that work "authentically," and some things foundations new to the space should keep in mind....
Report Calls for More Support for Grassroots Activism in Atlanta
The report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy found that only 20 percent of funding in the city went to underserved communities and just 2 percent supported policy change and power-building strategies....
Fifty Years On, African Americans Still Face Economic Disadvantages
The report from the Economic Policy Institute found that, fifty years after the Kerner Commission report about the lack of economic opportunities in African-American communities, African Americans continue to face economic disadvantages....
Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates Narrowing, Study Finds
The report from the Vera Institute of Justice found that local jail incarceration rates for African Americans rose 27 percent between 1990 and 2005 but fell 20 percent between 2005 and 2013....
WKKF Awards $2.4 Million to Wayne State for Racial Equity Initiative
The three-year grant will fund the second phase of the Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL), an initiative launched in 2014 to bring together an intergenerational multiracial group of leaders working to end structural racism....
Surdna, Andrus Award $800,000 for Next-Gen Social Justice Philanthropy
The grants will support efforts to provide resources to family foundations, community foundations, and donor-advised funds working to pursue next-generation social justice philanthropy....
PND spoke with Mediratta about what the ten-year, $60 million initiative launched by Atlantic Philanthropies will be doing to support creative leaders dedicated to dismantling anti-black racism....
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Founded in 2006, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration engages in education, advocacy, and cross-cultural alliance-building with the aim of strengthening the national movement to end racism and the economic disenfranchisement of African-American and black immigrant communities....
PND spoke with Fred Blackwell, CEO of The San Francisco Foundation, about the foundation's racial equity lens, movement building in the wake of the 2016 elections and Charlottesville, and what it means for philanthropic organizations to speak out, step up, and actually try to achieve racial equity....
A project of the Equal Justice Initiative, the site explores the history and legacy of racial terror in the United States, with a focus on the period from the Civil War to World War II...
NBA Player Foundations Partner With Kellogg on Racial Healing Projects
A $1 million grant from the Kellogg Foundation will be used by the Chris Paul Family Foundation, the Carmelo Anthony Foundation, the Wade's World Foundation, and the LeBron James Family Foundation to integrate Kellogg's Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation efforts into their work....
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University works to provide a permanent financial base for the King Papers Project and enhance understanding of King's life, ideas, and legacy...
Thoughts on 'As the South Grows'
January 9, 2018Allen Smart, a former vice president at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and Rapides Foundation, shares his thoughts on the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's As the South Grows report and the need for more and better philanthropic investments in the region....
Cancer Death Rate Falls but Racial Disparities Remain, Study Finds
While the overall age-adjusted cancer death rate in 2015 was down 26 percent from 1991, the rate for African Americans was 14 percent higher than the rate for white Americans....
The 2017 Police Violence Report compiles information from media reports, obituaries, public records, and crowdsourced databases to present the most comprehensive accounting of deadly police violence over the previous twelve months....
