The goal of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.
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May 6, 2013 Chicago, Illinois 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Donors Forum Large Conference Room, 208 S. LaSalle, Suite 1535
The inability to talk about race effectively is a hallmark of the 21st century. And yet, inequity is designed into many of our systems. As we make grants in a multicultural, multi-lingual world with shifting demographics, how do we as grantmakers not only join the dialogue about race, but move it forward confidently? How do we discuss issues of race and racism with grantseekers, with peers, and with trustees in a way that deepens shared understanding and increases our impact? What are the questions we should ask ourselves in order to ensure our work helps to change the sector?
Speakers: Colleagues from the Peer Network for New Grantmakers and exchange facilitated by Lori Villarosa, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity.
March 27, 2013 St. Paul, Minnesota Coffee Conversations: All Things Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Bush Foundation, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite East-900, St Paul, Minnesota, 55101 How can we help create the conditions within our foundations for safe exploration and profound learning on issues around race? At this gathering, we will examine the use of courageous conversation as a strategy to move toward greater diversity within our organizations.
Jennifer Ford Reedy, president, Bush Foundation, will open our meeting by sharing Bush Foundation's efforts around diversity. We will then hear from Lori Villarosa, executive director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, on how to introduce a discussion of race within an organization. Lissa Jones, director of diversity, equity and inclusion, Minnesota Council on Foundations, will facilitate a dialogue on how each of us can lead in courageous conversations.
Speakers: Jennifer Ford Reedy, president, Bush Foundation ; Lori Villarosa, executive director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
March 22, 2013 Chicago, Illinois 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Donors Forum Large Conference Room, 208 S. LaSalle, Suite 1535 The 2010 Census awoke much of the U.S. new the new multicultural reality. Then the 2012 Presidential election sealed it. Demographics are changing and a new majority is rising. The inability to recognize and thoughtfully examine this shift is a liability. So, what does this mean for grantmakers today? For nonprofits?
Speakers: Lori Villarosa, Executive Director of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equality and Kelly Brown, Director of D5, a five-year coalition to grow diversity within the philanthropic community, will provide an overview of the current landscape, trends on the horizon, and nuts and bolts to enhance your understanding of the field and practice.
December 13-14, 2012 Seattle, Washington Governing For Racial Equity 2012 Measuring Our Progress: Racial Equity Evaluation Tools and Success Markers If data are needed to make a case for injustice and to show progress, then how can we measure progress in achieving racial equity? Choosing the accurate and realistic indicators and markers of success are critical parts of data collection. How does evaluation contribute to or detract from the ongoing activities of community organizers?
This session will engage evaluators and other community leaders in robust discussions and exchanges about a variety of racial equity assessment strategies and social justice success markers.
Speakers: Lori Villarosa, PRE; Nina Narelle and Jen Lleras, Western States
Center; Julie Nelson, Seattle Office for Civil Rights Philanthropy and Government Partnerships How can philanthropic foundations and government
team up to advance racial equity? What are the
opportunities for collaboration? What are the
challenges? Join us for a discussion with national and
local leaders in philanthropy who are exploring
innovative ways to work in partnership with government
as we build a movement for racial equity. Speakers: Lori Villarosa, PRE; Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates; Michael Brown,
Seattle Foundation; Zeke Spier, Social Justice Fund PRE Board Member john.a.powell- Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society will be featured among the plenary speakers.
November 8, 2012 Charleston, South Carolina Southeastern Council of Foundations 2012 Annual Meeting "Diversity in Grantmaking: Grantmaking with an Equity Lens" This session will equip practitioners by providing in-depth discussions of resources to help philanthropic organizations address equity within their own foundations, with community members and/or the nonprofit sector.
Examples of how to apply three selected tools for culturally effective and responsive philanthropy that specifically address racial equity will be presented: 1) Race Matters Tool Kit (Annie E. Casey Foundation & Voices of America's Children; 2) Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities Tool Kit (ABFE); and 3) Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens (PRE & GrantCraft). Speakers: November 15-17 Baltimore, MD
Applied Research Center's Facing Race 2012 Organizing Racial Justice Philanthropy Presenters: For full details on all events, visit our news page. June 28, 2012 Washington, DC Voices for America's Children and KIDS COUNT Joint Conference "The All-Important Outcomes " What is both meaningful and realistic when evaluating work to change complex, cumulative and deeply entrenched conditions that impact the lives of our nation's children? How do we assess progress toward long term change and true transformation when so many of our indicators are short term and transactional, and how do we convey these expectations to potential funders and others who support our work? In spite of the conceptual and practical challenges, we all want to know if our short-term gains are leading to longer term, sustainable and important changes. This interactive session will frame these challenges, offer examples of current evaluation efforts and share suggestions for articulating the outcomes we expect to achieve. It is intended for executive staff, board leaders, development staff and any interested conference participant. Moderator: Ann Segal, Director for disadvantaged children and families,Wellspring Advisors. Presenters: Johanna Morariu , Director, Innovation Network; Carol Trawick , President, Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation; Lori Villarosa, PRE March 27, 2012 East Lansing, MI
State of Opportunity: The Road Ahead for Michigan; Council of Michigan Foundations Making the Case for Change in Michigan Jocelyn Sargent, Program Officer, W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Panelists: March 24-26, 2012 Seattle, WA Professionals Learning About Community, Equity & Smart Growth (PLACES) Program of the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
[By invitation only for PLACES Fellows] March 24:An Attempt to Unwind Institutional Racialization: Race and Social Justice in Grantmaking and the Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative Presenters and workshop guides: March 25: How Grantmakers and Local Non-profits Work to Implement Racial Equity in Seattle: Panel of Grantmakers in Race and Smart Growth Areas Panelists:
PREVIOUS PRE EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Susan Batten, President, Association for Black Foundation Representatives
Delia Carmen, Director, Race Matters Institute
Lori Villarosa, PRE
Four intermediaries working to move funders will share current tools and efforts to strengthen racial justice grantmaking. This interactive session will also engage nonprofits in strategizing about their role in organizing racial justice philanthropy. How can the racial justice field and other social justice activists push or support change, and how can we all be more strategic about the levers of power in an arena that has far more privilege than accountability.
Susan Batten, Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE); Lisa Ranghelli, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP); Dennis Quirin, Race & Equity Collaborative, Proteus Fund
Moderator and Presenter: Lori Villarosa, PRE
To explore the state of opportunity and equity in Michigan, particularly as it relates to the P-20 Continuum (prenatal care through age 20) and ways that grantmakers and others are working to expand opportunity and equity.
Amber Arellano, Executive Director, The Education Trust-Midwest
Karen Holcomb-Merrill, Policy Director, Michigan League of Human Services
James Vander Hulst, President/CEO, West Michigan TEAM
Marianne Udow-Phillips, Director, Center for Health Care Research & Transformation, University of Michigan and former director, Michigan Department of Human Services
Moderator: Lori Villarosa
Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) is a citywide effort led by the Seattle Office of Civil Rights and an interdepartmental team of City staff to realize the vision of racial equity by eradicating its biggest barrier: institutional racism.
Discussing grantmaking trends and tools to address race and social justice and provide tangible examples of how PLACES fellows can deepen a focus on racial justice within their grantmaking and community activities.
Glenn Harris, Director, RSJI
Lori Villarosa
Understand how grantmakers and local non-profits define the area of equity and smart growth, how they define a strategy for a solution and how funding is shaped to address the issues - or might be in the future.
Zeke Spier, Executive Director, Social Justice Fund NW
Estella Ortega, Executive Director, El Centro de La Raza
Heidi Hall, Impact Capital, head of the Equity Caucus for the Sustainable Communities program in King County
Vu Le, Executive Director, Vietnamese Friendship Association
Dustin Washington, AFSE, Tyree Scott Leadership School
Moderator: Lori Villarosa
We are pleased to announce the publication of Critical Issues Forum: Mobilizing Community Power to Address Structural Racism, the fourth volume of a series that aims to deepen the discourse around important progressive racial justice issues within philanthropy.
Our nation and broader global community are at a turning point where need and great potential could meet in important ways for social and racial justice movement building if we are able to maximize the intellectual, cultural and financial resources available. But do we have the will to really invest in what it will take? Are we learning from our practice - the successes and the missteps? Are we valuing the right components- and evaluating the right markers? What do we need to build a truly egalitarian, multiracial democracy?
To help explore these issues, PRE has engaged some of the field's top thinkers to share their wisdom about lessons they are learning in their community organizing work, as well as candidly acknowledging the struggles that remain, and identify questions yet to be fully answered. We convened well-respected leaders, issued a call for papers, received a number of impressive abstracts that were competitively reviewed by a diverse and thoughtful committee. The result is a journal of several essays and interviews intended to provoke greater conversation and action to bridge work on community organizing and civic engagement with the work to combat structural racism.
We are now eager to engage you in the conversation over the coming months. The full publication as well as individual articles can be downloaded here and we encourage you to share all or the most relevant parts with your colleagues and other networks.
Significant changes in the past two decades have generated both momentum and urgency, especially at the intersection of race and organizing. We hope that sharing the successes and challenges experienced by a variety of community organizations not only opens a dialogue, but also provides a floor plan for new strategies.
Save the Date for The Applied Research Center (ARC)'s,2012 Facing Race National Conference ; November 15-17, 2012-Baltimore, Maryland. Funders are encouraged to both attend and to consider supporting travel scholarships for their grantees to attend the largest national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, and activists on racial justice. ARC Executive Director Rinku Sen is a PRE Advisory Board Member.
AMP (Activists Mobilizing for Power). AMP is a unique 3-day social justice training and networking event for community-based leaders, staff, and volunteers of groups organizing for justice in the West. AMP's work is about getting voices heard, to amplify the stories and challenges that communities face. Formerly the Community Strategic Training Initiative (CSTI), AMP is convened by the Western States Center, where PRE Advisory Board Member Kalpana Krishnamurthy is the Gender Justice Program and RACE Program Director.
PRE Advisory Board Member, Makani Themba with The Praxis Project, published Fair Game:A Strategy Guide for Racial Justice Communications in the Obama Era; The Praxis Project, May 2009. A workbook-style guide designed to help racial justice advocates navigate new political waters. Through case studies, planning tools, and the latest research, Fair Game invites readers to explore proven strategies that offer promise for future success, and to consider what we must do over the long term to regain lost ground.
Keith Lawrence, of the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change and a PRE Advisory Board Member, recently edited Race, Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Connection in America. With essays by Michelle Alexander, Eric Cadora, Blake Emerson, Ian Haney Lopez, Marc Mauer, Alan Mobley, Alice O'Connor, Jonathon Simon and Phil Thomson, the book examines the linkage of race, crime, and punishment in the public mind, and offers strategies for reducing the severe racial disproportionalities in the criminal justice system.
WEBINAR
Marking Progress: Evaluating Movement Toward Racial Justice Video and Audio; Webinar Slides.
This webinar addresses challenges, offers examples of current evaluative efforts, and shares suggestions to help us ask the right questions from various roles of community activist, advocate, researcher, or funder.
Presenters
Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor,The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Rinku Sen, Executive Director, Applied Research Center and Colorlines Magazine
Maya Wiley, Executive Director,Center for Social Inclusion
Coordinated and moderated by PRE's Lori Villarosa
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PRE commends Funders for LGBTQ Issues for its recently released Common Vision Guide to Structural Change Grantmaking . It is intended to help foster conversations and contribute to the building of resources and tools about grantmaking that advance fundamental change in society. PRE was pleased to be among the co-sponsoring partners and advisory committee members for the Common Vision Project, and we encourage grantmakers to share reactions as this interactive web-based tool seeks to grow and evolve.