The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is a multiyear project intended 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.
Take a moment to view publications published by PRE. Click on one of the icons to the left to be taken to our publications page.
Friday, March 12, 2010, Columbus, OH
Transforming Race: Crisis and Opportunity in the Age of Obama
Evaluating Progress: Effective Movement Toward Reducing Systemic Racism
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, New Orleans, LA
Katrina at Five: Partners in Philanthropy
Catalyzing Change & Deepening Racial Justice Impacts
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, New York, NY
Philanthropy New York
Shared Prosperity: Philanthropic Approaches to Economic Recovery Through Racial Equity
Thursday, October 22, 2009, Charlotte, NC
The 3rd National Convening of the Fulfilling the Dream Fund, Advancing Equal Opportunity in an Obama Era
Tuesday, October 13, 2009, New Orleans, LA
Neighborhood Funders Group Annual Conference, Stepping Up: Creating a New Social Compact
Catalyzing Change and Deepening Racial Justice Impacts
Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Boston, MA
Associated Grantmakers
Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens
For full details on our recent events, visit our news page.
PRE, together with the Applied Research Center (ARC) will present Catalytic Change: Lessons from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment, on Tuesday, February 23rd, 3:00pm - 4:15pm EST
While many funders have expressed their commitment to addressing inequities in their communities, there is often still a disconnect between these aspirations and the grantmaking strategies needed to truly improve opportunity and outcomes for all. Join Applied Research Center (ARC) and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) in a webinar as they share key findings from Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment. Speakers will share strategies to determine and refine the ability of your own grantmaking to achieve systemic and racially just solutions. The webinar will also feature the heads of the two foundations who piloted the assessment, offering practical insights from boards, staff, and grantee partners that you can build upon in your work.
Presenters:
Rinku Sen, Executive Director, Applied Research Center
Lori Villarosa, Executive Director, PRE
Patricia Brandes, Executive Director, Barr Foundation
Margaret O'Bryon, President and CEO, Consumer Health Foundation
In this Webinar you will learn to:
• Establish a racial justice lens in grantmaking;
• Move beyond the "diversity lens" and recognize the potential and limitations of intervening at the individual, institutional, or structural levels;
• Create a clear set of definitions, questions and processes to help assess internal and external systems that support people of color;
• Understand how being explicit vs. implicit about racial dynamics can affect outcomes; and
• Use analytic tools to examine the efficacy of organizational commitments to racial equity
We will mix presentation and interactive dialogue, so come prepared with your own questions and examples to facilitate an active discussion. We have reached out to a diverse set of funding networks nationally, recognizing that concerns of racial equity touch upon all geographic and issue-based networks.
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November 2009 - Funders for LGBTQ Issues launches their Racial Equity Online Toolkit.
PRE applauds this impressive resource, which provides a range of grantmaking tools, commentaries and best practices to support grantmakers in implementing an LGBTQ racial equity lens into their grantmaking and internal operations. We congratulate everyone at Funders for LGBTQ Issues for their strong and strategic leadership on this important issue.
Please visit www.lgbtracialequity.org for more information and to view the toolkit.
September 2009 - Woods Fund of Chicago Announces Racial Equity Core Principle
"The Woods Fund of Chicago has chosen to employ a racial equity lens and adopt this core principle to help our foundation think more intentionally about addressing inequities both internally, within the communities in which we operate, and beyond." Woods Fund President Deborah Harrington cites PRE's work, including convening of the Racial Justice Funders Roundtable and Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens publication (in partnership with GrantCraft) as having informed the decision to adopt this lens.
PRE appreciates Woods Fund's gracious acknowledgment, and more importantly, commends the Woods staff, board and grantee partners for their leadership and commitment to racial equity within philanthropy!
February 2009 - PRE appreciates the historically groundbreaking work of the members of the Joint Affinity Groups and applauds their recent renewed collective call for actions in this Open Letter to the Philanthropic Sector. This letter was published in the February 12, 2009 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
