BUILDING RESOURCES TO END RACISM
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.
UPCOMING PRE EVENTS
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
RECENT PRE EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Friday, June 12, 2009, 9:30am – 12:30pm, Sheraton Overland Park Hotel, Overland Park, KS
Gamaliel Foundation African American Leadership Commission 2009 Conference
Uniting for Power through Coalitions
Wednesday, May 13 – Thursday, May 14, 2009 Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families
Building Blocks of Change: Challenging Social Determinants
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 2:30 - 4 pm, Marriot Marquis, Atlanta, GA
Council on Foundations Annual Conference
Building Local Power to Address Structural Racism: Overcoming Challenges
For full details on our recent events, visit our news page.
ANNOUNCING NEW PUBLICATION
PRE, together with the Applied Research Center (ARC) introduce joint publication: Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment. It shares the lessons learned from piloting a Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment developed by the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE ) with two different foundations — the Consumer Health Foundation, a private foundation in Washington, DC ; and the Barr Foundation, a family foundation in Boston, Massachusetts.
We hope that this report will spark new catalytic changes within specific foundations and, over time, in the larger field of philanthropy. In chemistry, catalyzers are often quite small in their initial scope, such as the introduction of minute amounts of new elements into an existing chemical combination or larger system. Such an introduction can either initiate the transformation of that compound, or speed up a transformation that is already underway. In our work, something as small as a new set of questions can generate a fresh perspective on existing frameworks. Engagement with these questions can reveal new possibilities and projects. The Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment is a new set of questions applied to an old debate about the role of race in foundation giving. Through the process both the assessment team and the foundation participants learned that incremental steps -- including asking a new set of questions -- can help us all progress on racial disparities in the society (as well as within foundations).
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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.
Previous Publications
Take a moment to view previous publications published by PRE. Click on one of the icons to the left to be taken to our publications page.
