Philanthropy & Funding
Shifting Power to Communities in Grant Funding
To truly advance racial justice, funders must share decision-making power over who receives capital with the communities they hope to serve.
To truly advance racial justice, funders must share decision-making power over who receives capital with the communities they hope to serve.
As the nation’s multiracial majority comes of age, just and fair inclusion are essential for economic recovery and prosperity.
Nonprofits that serve communities of color struggle to survive because of systemic racial disparities and biases. To surmount these challenges, we recommend seven approaches that have emerged from our work with these communities.
Highlights from recent SSIR.org articles on racial justice, well-being, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
A rally for Black trans people in Brooklyn, New York, illustrates the increasing success and power of the Black Lives Matter movement as a coalition that centers on the most marginalized.
The groups that set the narratives about what happened during the COVID-19 crisis, what to do now, and what’s next will have outsized influence on who we hold responsible, who gets help, and what we do moving forward.
By weaving together an unusual array of data into a simple measure of a community's vulnerability to COVID-19, health care practitioners can develop tailored interventions to help Black Americans, who disproportionately bear the burden of the pandemic.
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has ignited protests and focused the national discourse on institutional racism and how to eradicate it. SSIR's editors have assembled a list of resources to help leaders of social change and activists trying to put an end to this intractable American scourge.
Leaders from three San Francisco Bay Area arts organizations discuss how they are shaping both their organizations and their performances to make them more diverse and welcoming to all.
Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, speaks about the nature of political and cultural power and the importance of continually assessing the nonprofit sector's efforts to bring about change.