Racial Equity
Winners of RWJF 2018 Award for Health Equity Announced
The award recognizes individuals who have changed systems and policies at the local level with the aim of increasing the chances that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible....
Meyer Foundation Awards $3.2 Million in Grants
The October awards include seventy-seven grants totaling $3.11 million focused on supporting nonprofits working to eliminate racial disparities in housing, education, employment, and asset building....
2018-20 Class of Mellon Curatorial Fellows Announced
The program supports specialized training in the curatorial field for students from historically underrepresented groups....
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to Focus on Measurable Outcomes
The Winston-Salem-based trust is updating its strategy "to achieve strategic goals that support equitable access to opportunity and effect systems change."...
OSI-Baltimore Announces 2018 Class of Community Fellows
Ten social entrepreneurs and innovators will each receive a $60,000 grant over eighteen months to work on a self-created project designed to revitalize an underserved neighborhood in the city and/or improve youth outcomes....
Lumina, Robin Hood, Salesforce Impact Launch Impact Investing Alliance
The alliance will direct an initial $15 million in co-investments to for-profit education and workforce development companies working to reduce poverty....
Los Angeles, Annenberg Launch Tech Sector Civic Initiative
The Annenberg Foundation is working with the city to develop PledgeLA, a public-private partnership aimed at increasing the diversity of the city’s growing tech workforce....
PND spoke with Villarosa about the difference between racial equity and racial justice, the challenges of racial equity/justice work in the Age of Trump, and the lessons she and her colleagues have learned as they have worked to create a more just society....
NYWF Launches Fund for Justice Reform for Women, Girls, TGNC People
The New York Women's Foundation's Justice Fund is the first of its kind to engage in criminal justice reform through the lens of gender and racial equity....
Lisa Hamilton Named Annie E. Casey Foundation President and CEO
Hamilton, who joined the foundation as vice president of external affairs in 2011 and was appointed executive vice president and chief program officer last year, will succeed Patrick McCarthy, who announced his retirement after twenty-five years with the foundation, nearly nine as president and CEO....
Mellon Awards $2.5 Million for Boston Classical Music Youth Program
The grant to the New England Conservatory of Music will support a collaborative effort to provide advanced preparation to Boston-area middle and high school instrumental musicians from historically underrepresented communities....
Institute Focused on Improving Economic Opportunity Launched
Opportunity Insights, a partnership between economists from Harvard and Brown University, will conduct research on economic mobility and harness the power of big data to develop scalable policy solutions that empower families to achieve better life outcomes....
Achieving Racial Equity Through Cross-Sector Partnerships
October 3, 2018The need to address structural racism in American society has never been greater, argues Gee, and cross-sector partnerships are the best way to do it....
Funders Beginning to Embrace Participatory Grantmaking, Report Finds
The report from GrantCraft illustrates why and how funders globally are engaging in the practice of ceding decision-making power to the communities they aim to serve....
Surdna Foundation Revamps Grantmaking Strategies
The culmination of a yearlong process, the changes reflect the foundation's belief that racial justice must underpin social justice....
Public Colleges Not Supporting African Americans Adequately
According to a report from the USC Race and Equity Center, African Americans make up 14.6 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the country but only 9.8 percent of full-time degree-seeking undergraduates at public colleges and universities....
WKKF Announces $1 Million Program-Related Investment
The ten-year $1 million low-interest loan will support the Paul Robeson Community Wellness Center in South Central Los Angeles....
Civil Rights, Racial Discrimination Top Concern for Young Americans
A survey by the Case Foundation-sponsored Cause and Social Influence initiative found that gun safety, immigration, and climate change also were among the top concerns for respondents....
