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Months ago, Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights organization Color Of Change, wrote, “We don’t get racial justice out of a true democracy. We get a true democracy out of racial justice.” The horror of the past week, in which a violent mob brandishing...
The events of January 6 were infuriating. The world doesn’t especially need another organizational statement decrying the violence, condemning the liars and conspiracy theorists, or lamenting the latest vivid display of racist disparities in policing. It’s been said...
When viewing the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) report New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support, several findings from the research stood out to me: Nonprofit leaders report that receiving multiyear general operating...
Foundations and Racial Equity in 2020 The second of three CEP reports on foundations’ response to crisis in 2020, focused on racial equity, reveals a striking truth about our field: we often don’t know what we don’t know. And that prevents us from acting, which,...
A growing group of nonprofit leaders and advocates for more effective philanthropy — joined by a small cadre of grantmakers — have been calling for multiyear general operating support (GOS) to be the norm for funding, rather than the exception. Our research at the...
Today, CEP released the second report in a three-part series about foundations’ responses to the crises of 2020. Foundations Respond to Crisis: Toward Equity? focuses on how foundations have changed their practices to support communities most affected by the pandemic...
Research suggests that U.S. foundations trust Black-led organizations enough to give them money, but not enough to give them control. A recent analysis by Bridgespan and Echoing Green looked at a set of comparable grant-funded organizations and found that the...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Approach The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to building a Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. Achieving this goal requires valuing and...
The murder of George Floyd by a police officer — one in an unbroken string of unjust Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement — has triggered an unprecedented national outpouring of grief, rage, and demands for change throughout the country. The fact that these...
This post first appeared on the Alliance magazine blog. For centuries, philanthropy has aided society during times of crisis. At the United Philanthropy Forum’s 2020 Annual Conference (virtually, this year), the ways philanthropy has mobilized to...