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Most Relevant Racial Equity Resources
Racial Equity Grantmaking
- Guiding a Giving Response to Anti-Black Injustice (ABFE and The Bridgespan Group, Aug. 2020)
- The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change. (ABFE, Hill-Snowden Foundation)
- Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
- Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation (Justice Funders)
- Impact Investing and Racial Equity: Foundations Leading the Way (SSIR, Feb. 25, 2019)
- Expanding Opportunity in the Capital Markets Through Racial Equity (SSIR, Feb. 25, 2019)
- Addressing Racially Biased Financial Analysis (Nonprofit Finance Fund, Oct. 2019)
Operationalizing Racial Equity
- Equitable job description language and talent management and culture resource (From Jody at Meyer)
- Operationalizing Racial Justice in Non-profit Organizations, Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates (July 2020)
- Funders Together webinar series on white dominant culture and anti-black racism (May/June 2020)
- The Role of Senior Leaders in Building a Race Equity Culture. (The Bridgespan Group, 2018). https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/library/organizational-effectiveness/senior-leaders-role-in-building-race-equity
- Dissonance & Disconnects: How entry and mid-level foundation staff see their futures, their institutions, and their field. (EPIP, 2018) http://www.epip.org/dissonance_disconnects
- Demos' Racial Equity Transformation: Key Components, Process, and Lessons (2018). https://www.demos.org/publication/demos-racial-equity-transformation-key-components-process-lessons
- Operationalizing Racial Equity. (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2017). https://www.aecf.org/resources/operationalizing-equity/
- Demos' Racial Equity Transformation: Key Component, Process, & Lessons (case study)
- Northwest Health Foundation: Putting All Our Money Where Our Mouth is with a Contracting Policy
- Looking in the Mirror:Equity in Practice for Philanthropy . Ahslee Young, Jaime Love, Nancy Csuti, Christopher King. The Foundation Review, 2017 (case study)
- The REACH Equity Screen for Content Creators (Nonprofit AF, August 2019)
- For a list of questions grantmakers ask during the application/site visit process, tools FRE participants use, and foundations with mission statements that call out racial equity, see the June 2019 call page
- Meyer Foundation (DC)'s 2020 Grants Guide - They developed this as part of their grants process redesign to make it more equitable
Racial Equity in Housing and Homelessness
- Coordinated Entry Systems: Racial Equity Analysis of Assessment Data (C4 Innovations, 2019)
- SPARC Phase I Findings. (Center for Social Innovation, 2018)
- Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness. (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, December 2018.)
- Race and Homelessness in Santa Clara County report and 2-page summary (January 2020)
- Where Families with Children Use Housing Vouchers. (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2019).
- Race Equality Foundation’s website includes a focus area on housing and a set of “Better Housing” briefs on evidence related to racial disparities and housing in the UK.
- The View from Outside. (Tipping Point Community, April 2019). This is Mayra's recently published report of the 300-person survey she conducted with a team of peer field staff.
- HUD CoC racial equity analysis tool
- NAEH tool to help communities look at program data (click link on page to download): https://endhomelessness.org/resource/the-alliances-racial-equity-network-toolkit/
- NAEH Racial Equity Network's action steps (National Alliance to End Homelessness, Feb 2020)
- Your Way Home (Montgomery County, PA) - 10 Ways We've Advanced Equity in the Past Year
Philanthropy Serving Organizations
Racial Equity Research and Guides
- Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps: The Economic Cost of Black Inequality in the US (Citi Bank)
- Why Am I Always Being Researched? A guidebook for community organizations, researchers, and funders to help us get from insufficient understanding to more authentic truth
- Promise54 - Unrealized Impact Report
- Repositioning Funds:
- Dallas Better Together Fund
- Chicago Mission Sustainability Fund
- LA Nonprofit Sustainability Fund
- Pittsburgh Catalyst Fund
- Repositioning Fund, Greater Philadelphia
- Coalition of Communities of Color: Leading with Race Report (community based participatory research)
- Goldin Institute Gather Platform (community building, coalition building, advocacy training, etc.)
Consultants FRE participants have used
- https://www.bearstandingtall.com/ -- Dani is working with them
General Racial Equity Resources
Below are external resources to further deepen your racial equity journey. We'll continue to build this list together as a community. If you have resources to submit, please share them with Stephanie and she'll add them to this page.
Don't see a resource you want or need? Look at Funders Together's public-facing racial equity resources page. Also try searching W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Racial Equity Resource Guide and the website www.racialequitytools.org.
Glossaries
- Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis (Aspen Institute)
- Racial Equity Resource Guide Glossary (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- Racial Equity Tools Glossary (racialequitytools.org)
- Interaction Institute for Social Change working definitions
Books
- White Rage, by Carol Anderson
- Racism Without Racists, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- We Were Eight Year in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
- When Affirmative Action was White, by Ira Katznelson
- The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide, by Meizhu Lui
- So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Olou
- The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
- Racing to Justice, by john a. powell
- Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity, by Clara E. Rodriguez
- Waking Up White - Debby Irving
- Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
Podcasts and Film
- BackStory
- Code Switch
- Race, the Power of an Illusion (film)
- Seeing White: How Race Was Made
- Scene on Radio, Season 2. Whiteness-making of race in America
Trainings and Conferences
- Facing Race conference
- Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work, Interaction Institute for Social Change
- The Groundwater Approach: Building a Practical Understanding of Structural Racism, Racial Equity Institute
- Managing for Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Results, The Management Center
- Me and White Supremacy – The Workbook, layla f. saad
- Race Matters Institute
Resources & Toolkits
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity Resource Guide
- Putting Racism on the Table, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG)
- Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues, City of Seattle http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/RSJI/RacialEquityToolkit_FINAL_August2012.pdf
- The Race Card Project
- Racial Equity Tools
- The Problem with That Equity v. Equality Graphic You're Using (article)
- 11-step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege (article)
- 7 Reasons Why Colorblindness Contributes to Racism Instead of Solves It (article)
General Leadership and Development Resources
- The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace - Gary Chapman and Paul White
- Start with Why - Simon Sinek
- Reflective Practices Guide from The Giving Practice