Racial Equity
Report Calls for Addressing Role of Policing in Mass Incarceration
A report from the Vera Institute of Justice and the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge calls for shifting policing practices, which have become "an expressway to jail," away from an overreliance on punitive enforcement for low-level offenses....
Report Highlights Role of Women of Color in 2018 Midterm Elections
A report from the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and Groundswell Fund found that the historically high voter turnout in 2018 was driven by a 37 percent increase in turnout among women of color....
Gender Equity in Chicago Improving but Disparities Persist
A report from the Chicago Foundation for Women found that while rates of labor force participation, higher education attainment, corporate leadership, and political representation for women improved in 2017, disparities for women of color remained....
Report Explores Ways to Ensure More Affordable Private Schooling
Funded by the Walton Family Foundation, the study by Bellwether Education Partners includes recommendations for making private schooling more affordable and explores so-called micro-schools as an emerging model for reducing per-pupil costs....
National Museum of African American History Receives $1.5 Million
The grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will be used to expand the museum's Early Childhood Education Initiative, which combines early childhood education, developmental psychology, human development, and museum education to help children develop healthy racial identities....
Knight Foundation Awards $1.2 Million to Maynard Institute
Part of a $300 million initiative dedicated to building the future of local news, the funding will enable the Maynard Institute to establish an equity and inclusion transformation program built on its existing diversity training curriculum....
Study Outlines Ways to Increase Diversity of Impact Investing Market
A report from Confluence Philanthropy highlights the barriers that investment managers of color face and calls on impact investors to make a clear commitment to institutional education and reform....
Equity-Based Family Engagement Boosts Education, Families, Study Finds
A report from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation found that engaging families in equity-based school activities and processes can improve educational quality and relevance and strengthen communities....
Study Examines Diversity of New York City-Funded Arts Workforce
A pilot study by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and SMU DataArts found that Latinx, African Americans, and Asian Americans, who account for 29 percent, 22 percent, and 14 percent, respectively, of the city's population, made up only 10 percent, 11 percent, and 6 percent of the arts and cultural workforce....
Coalition Calls for 'Equitable and Just' Climate Policy Agenda
The Equitable and Just National Climate Platform seeks to infuse principles of racial and economic equity into the national discussion around the climate crisis ahead of the 2020 elections....
Education 'Excellence Gap' Widening, Research Brief Finds
A research brief from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation found that the disparity between the percentage of low-income students who score at "advanced" levels on math and reading tests and the percentage of high-income students who do has widened since 1996....
Kresge Awards $5 Million to Advance Family Economic Mobility
The second cohort of Next Generation grantees were awarded grants of $500,000 in support of their efforts to advance the social and economic mobility of low-income children and families....
Teaching Tolerance strives to provide educators with tools, materials, and resources they can use to help children and young people challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives....
Gates Foundation Network for School Improvement Shares Lessons Learned
An evaluation of the first year of an initiative in support of evidence-based interventions and continuous data-driven learning aimed at improving student achievement highlights the need for school teams to develop data analysis skills and secure leadership buy-in....
Independence Public Media Foundation Awards $5.3 Million in Grants
The foundation's inaugural grants will support efforts to empower communities through media and include a grant of $1.3 million to the Lenfest Institute for Journalism....
