Crystal Hayling of The Libra Foundation and Sonal Shah of The Asian American Foundation discuss how their organizations are transforming the way race is discussed in America and how to improve understanding about racial concerns that will lead to a more inclusive society. Produced in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Eighteen months after an unprecedented movement for racial justice, many organizations are feeling frustration and disappointment. What now?
Achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion means putting disability justice in every policy discussion and making it part of the continuing struggle for civil rights.
Targeted scholarships may draw underrepresented groups away from more lucrative funding.
Last spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic magnified the United States’ racial and class inequities, Teach for America endeavored to put philanthropic power in younger, more racially diverse hands.
We created the Democracy Frontlines Fund to enable experienced anti-racist organizers to do their crucial work. They taught us how to do philanthropy better.
Doing more to support higher education institutions will improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the tech industry—though it also must be done better to address flaws in the current approach and the struggles of colleges.
White men have taken extraordinary measures to keep construction unions white and have designed their unions to frustrate and intimidate prospective Black members.
Four strategies for organizational activism—advocate, subvert, facilitate, and heal—can help the increasing number of people who want to challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and other injustices in the workplace.
Think tanks can only help pave the path toward a more inclusive, just, and equal country if we modernize our concept of expertise, re-think who gets to drive policy change, and re-imagine how policy is developed.
