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.
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March 19, 2012 San Antonio, TX
Grants Managers Network Annual Conference
Incorporating Diversity into Grantmaking
Integrating diversity is a hot topic in philanthropy. Countless initiatives and programs seek to ensure grantmakers are meeting the needs of all communities. How can you track and evaluate the diversity of your current and potential grantees, and what systems need to be in place to ensure that you meet your organization's goals around diversity? This session will build on the knowledge of grants managers and highlight the unique role that grants management plays in data collection, management, and analysis.
Speakers
Bryan Glover, Communications Officer, Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Gender Justice and RACE Program Director, Western States Center, and PRE Advisory Board Member
Lori Villarosa
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January 20th, 2012 Seattle, WA
Governing for Racial Equity
The daylong event will be an opportunity to deepen skills in promoting inclusion, diversity and racial justice and to build institution's ability to address racial equity. The conference is a networking opportunity for all government employees and officials. The event is hosted by the City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI). More information on RSJI and an event flyer can be found at www.seattle.gov/rsji or call 206-255-7556.
Plenary:Working with Government for Racial Equity
What are the challenges in working with government, and what are the opportunities for partnering?
Participants:
Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Gender Justice and RACE Program Director, Western States Center, and PRE Advisory Board Member
Dustin Washington, Community Justice Program Director AFSC and People's Institute Northwest Trainer
Lori Villarosa
Workshop:Structural Racism: Measuring Racial Equity
What is structural racism, and how do we measure progress toward structural equity?
Kalpana Krishnamurthy and Lori Villarosa will be facilitating and coordinating this presentation.
November 15th, 2011 Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Grantmakers 2011 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting[only open to SCG Members].
Marking Progress: Evaluating Movement Toward Racial Justice
What is both meaningful and realistic when evaluating work to change complex, cumulative and deeply entrenched conditions such as racial inequities and injustice? How do we assess progress toward true transformation when so many of our indicators are transactional? How do issues of power and privilege affect evaluation and how can we address them in establishing useful indicators of progress? 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 challenges, offer examples of current evaluative efforts, and share suggestions to help lift up the right questions for funders, evaluators, national advocates and community-based practitioners to consider.
We will raise issues that have been written about in PRE's Critical Issues Forum, Vol. 3 Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice and explore implications for local, statewide and national work.
Presenters
Julie Quiroz-Martinez, Senior Fellow, Movement Strategy Center and PRE Advisory Board Member
Mari Ryono, Director of Development and Evaluation, Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
Lori Villarosa will be facilitating and coordinating this presentation.
Sunday, October 30th, 2011 Chicago, IL
Independent Sector 2011 Annual Conference
Tough Conversations
Fear of conflict or desire to avoid misunderstanding can sometimes get in the way of progress. What issues do we shy away from at our peril? Learn to initiate tough conversations in order to unearth - and address - difficult subjects before they stop you in your tracks.
Facilitator: Mikaela Seligman, Independent Sector
Discussion leaders: J.D. Hokoyama, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics; Debra B. Natenshon, The Center for What Works; Lori Villarosa, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity; Jill Williams, Andrus Family Fund, Surdna Foundation, Inc.; Kara Inae Carlisle, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Alice Kim, Illinois Humanities Council; and Martha L. McCoy, Everyday Democracy (& PRE Advisory Board Member).
Thursday, October 6th, 2011 Seattle, WA
2011 Race & Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) Summit [Closed Event]
The RSJI Summit is a dynamic half-day event held every year to bring together racial justice change agents across City of Seattle and King County departments. The Summit is an opportunity for City employees working on racial equity to gain skills, strengthen relationships across departments and to hear about overall RSJI work, goals and priorities. This year the topics will include Race and Media, Measuring Racial Disparities, Power and Politics, and Structural Racism. About 300 city and county employees and nonprofit leaders are expected to attend the event.
Keynote by john a. powell, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University (and PRE Advisory Board Member)
Structural Racism: Measuring Racial Equity
This workshop will cover:
Presenters: Lori Villarosa, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity; Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates ; and Scott Winn, RSJI.
Webinar
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
We are pleased to announce the publication of Critical Issues Forum, Vol. 3, Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice, the third volume of a series aiming to deepen the discourse around important progressive racial justice issues within philanthropy. In this journal nine authors tackle the problems and prospects of evaluating racial justice work, raising some of the key issues they feel the field and its funders need to consider and explore further in order to understand the true impact of our work.
PRE embarked on a year-long project to spark discussion that could build on best practices within evaluation and how those should be applied to efforts aimed at reducing structural racism. The effort began with discussion and debate with some key advocates, activists and evaluators working on these issues at national and local levels, and was followed by similar discussions of funders, and then among additional local activists.
This publication shares the views of several of these thought leaders, as they synthesize the ways evaluation can be most effective when measuring the progress being made towards achieving racial justice.
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.
Registration is now open for Kirwan Institute's, Transforming Race 2012: Visions of Change; March 15-17, 2012 in Columbus, OH. The Kirwan Institute, and this conference, are dedicated to the proposition that we can transform the meanings and operations of race through informed dialogue, practices, and policies that create and expand opportunity for all. PRE Advisory Board Member john powell is the outgoing Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute. The conference provides an important learning space for funders and their grantees.
Western States Center, where PRE Advisory Board Member Kalpana Krishnamurthy is the Gender Justice Program and RACE Program Director, has renamed its signature community training event from CSTI (Community Strategic Training Initiative) to AMP (Activists Mobilizing for Power). AMP's work is about getting voices heard, to amplify the stories and challenges that communities face. AMP is a unique three-day training and networking event for community-based leaders, staff, and volunteers of groups organizing for justice in the West that has been going on for over 20 years.
PRE Advisory Board Member, Makani Themba-Nixon 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.
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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.