NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy released “The Giving Environment: Giving Trends by Race and Ethnicity” report. Here are three key findings from the report and how your nonprofit can begin to overcome the associated hurdles to reaching new demographics to support your cause.

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

JULY 22, 2021

For example, several donor collaboratives housed at Borealis Philanthropy were individually supported, including the Black Led Movement Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, and the Spark Justice Fund. An analysis of organizations and projects funded against Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System validates her statement. .

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Nonprofits are most likely to share data at the leader level and on gender and race/ethnicity. nonprofits through Candid’s nonprofit profiles.

Race and Ethnicity

The Agitator

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Have we so ignored the ethnic dimensions of fundraising that we are damaging our own future? What I am questioning is the long-term effect of this direct response apartheid — a process that too often simply ignores major non-Caucasian ethnic groups (Hispanics and Pan-Asians for example). Game change. Why are these groups ignored?

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We are in the midst of a timely and important discussion in philanthropy about increasing support to organizations led by people of color and women. Through GuideStar, Candid possesses the single most cost-effective and scalable solution for philanthropy to understand the demographic characteristics of grantee organizations.

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

AUGUST 22, 2024

Advancing racial equity has become a critical imperative for philanthropies aiming to make a meaningful impact. As part of that shift, many funders are looking to ensure their staff, leadership, and board reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of their communities. They could support nonprofits’ racial equity efforts more directly.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Based on data published by Yield Giving, the report explores how funds have been awarded and offers a breakdown of the impact Scott’s philanthropy is having across many sectors. Increasing Consistency Among the report’s key findings is that MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy has become more consistent in terms of both focus areas and geography.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2023

Fortunately, in recent years, some nonprofits have successfully diversified their boards, recruiting members with lived experiences that align with the communities being served by paying attention to demographics such as age, race, socioeconomic status, education, religion, disability, and diversity in thought and professional experience.

Race and Ethnicity

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

In granting standing, Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, part of a two-judge majority held “Although Fearless will presumably need to change its contest rules to bring itself into compliance with § 1981, that burden pales in comparison to the interest in rooting out race discrimination in all its forms.

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Those who faced barriers in the offline world along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity or ability would find new opportunities. The digital economy thus has not only failed to deliver, but has exploited racial/ethnic, gender, and geopolitical hierarchies in the process.

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

Environmental

Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Philanthropy can meet the moment, but our ability to do so depends on our willingness to make radical shifts away from traditions, models, practices, and approaches that no longer serve our grantees and the communities they serve. Indigenous communities are democratizing philanthropy to both liberate and heal through giving.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We gathered a sizable national sampling of 374 BIPOC-led organizations, 719 white-led organizations, and 75 organizations whose leaders’ racial or ethnic identities spanned multiple categories, none of the presented categories, or was unknown. Government, philanthropy, and community members all relied on nonprofits during the COVID pandemic.

Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

Multiple systems of oppression based on race, class, gender, and more, affect the lives of vulnerable populations in California, and elsewhere. Youth organizing has won reforms, taught philanthropy important lessons about inclusive civic engagement, and informed intergenerational efforts to address health and related inequalities.

Public and Social Policy

Candid

MAY 8, 2024

Furthermore, gender- and race-based biases continue to shape how many view women’s roles and relegate women to lower pay and less financial security. Hall concluded that “bias, not pipeline issues or personal choices, pushes women out of science—and that bias plays out differently depending on a woman’s race or ethnicity.”

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

JUNE 25, 2024

public charities on their Candid profiles, the report analyzes the demographic composition of staff, leaders, and board members—in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status. Based on data shared by 59,550 U.S. While this is a higher percentage than in the U.S.

Race and Ethnicity

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The long-term goal is that this declines as each new generation advances, but as we have seen in recent years, these deep rooted social ethnic divides are ingrained in western societies and hardwired into how our cultures function. Educational challenges faced by inner-city communities in the U.S.

Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 8, 2023

Philanthropies, nonprofits, and businesses that share this vision should help build a strong, durable reform coalition. These programs differ, but they share common characteristics. Many are “sectoral,” focused on specific high-growth industries. States should face consequential deadlines to move in this direction.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The ELTRR is referenced in a recent publication by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity , as a critical federal strategy. The microgrant model is a vast departure from traditional philanthropy, and paved the way for broader systems change.

Health

iMarketSmart

AUGUST 9, 2023

One term being used to describe this is ‘venture philanthropy’ – treating major gifts much like an investment in venture capital. Major gift officers need to be able to relate to this brand of philanthropy, and cater to it. As the study points out, 26% of giving pledge signers are ethnic minorities, immigrants, or non-US residents.

Race and Ethnicity

iMarketSmart

APRIL 24, 2023

Potential donors were asked, “How close do you feel to your ethnic or racial group?” Those answering, “very close” or “close,” gave more when the pictured victims matched their own race. They gave more when the victims did not match their own race. Race mattered. Do giving circles democratize philanthropy?

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Problem With Problem-Solving Solving problems to improve people’s lives has been philanthropy’s raison d’être. However, some criticisms have arisen regarding the approach philanthropies take in problem-solving. Can this vision be applied to philanthropy? Three examples demonstrate the Zero-Problem Philanthropy approach.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

Image Credit: Conor O’Nolan on unsplash.com Together, we have worked in philanthropy for more than 35 years. Throughout its history, social justice philanthropy has generally remained organized around siloed identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation. But recognition and action are two different things.

Philanthropy

Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. And we have compounded the invisibility of those working for racial justice, Black liberation, and equity based on ethnic or racial identity.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach. 21 In other words, until quite recently, it was considered politically smart for economic justice groups to avoid talking about race.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We need physical, social, cultural, and mental space to understand what it means to live at this complicated and wondrous intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality that is Black bisexuality+ on our own terms and within value systems that give our experience meaning, our lives purpose, and our realities affirmation.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2024

9 In my book, White Women Cry and Call Me Angry: A Black Woman’s Memoir on Racism in Philanthropy , I describe debilitating interactions with White women in the philanthropic sector during my tenure as president and CEO of a private foundation in Washington, DC. 15 These images are referred to as archetypes. She prefers it this way.

Race and Ethnicity

Candid

JANUARY 16, 2024

Recognizing the people demographic data represents Candid currently collects demographic data through our nonprofit profiles on race and ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability status. It also makes this standardized data available to the sector at large, guiding more informed decision-making and transparency.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Imagine a civil society in which communities, individuals, and leaders (nonprofit, social movement, philanthropy, business, education, and more) regularly engage in the process of self-examination for the sake of improving our world. Such exercises can also be used as prompts for Step 3, where participants share their personal narratives.)

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. The framework consists of a three-by-seven axis.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

There were people of color representing a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds—from South Asian to African American. And I think that’s the generative stance—that’s why I started to move beyond race to talking about power.” And I think that’s the generative stance—that’s why I started to move beyond race to talking about power.

Construction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. ” How Philanthropy Can Do Better. But now I do see myself as a leader. I can do this!’

Health

Candid

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

ii Based on an analysis of over 28,000 grants from 761 funders in 51 countries, our findings capture a pivotal moment for human rights philanthropy. These disparities highlight a trust gap in philanthropy that hinders the ability of social movements in the Global South and East to drive change on their own terms.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The government is often reluctant to adopt market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions due to ideological stances, which deters philanthropy. Recognize the intersectionality of gender issues, acknowledging that these are intertwined with other factors such as race, class, and ethnicity.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

This is an experience that a lot of people who have been participating in philanthropy for decades are unaware of— the lived experiences of people of color with wealth and the type of philanthropy that they have contributed over decades. It looks different. It’s not institutional. And a lot of it is just not visible. CS: Really?

Philanthropy