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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Grantmaking

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Grantmaking

  • Embracing Equity: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your Organization - This 2015 action guide by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is a tool for helping foundations adopt a race equity lens in their grantmaking and operations. The seven steps in this guide provide a clear framework for undertaking this work.

  • Awake to Woke to Work by ProInspire

  • GARE's Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity
  • All GARE Resources
  • Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens - Grantcraft - This guide explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation.
  • Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens - written by the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity Senior Fellow Rinku Sen and Executive Director Lori Villarosa with contributions from Maggie Potapchuk, Lisa McGill, and Makani Themba, provides grantmakers with reflections, frameworks and tools built from the direct experience of activists and funders for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting.
  • The Center for Social Inclusion's Talking about Race Tools
  • Putting Racism on the Table - Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers - This is WRAG's 2016 - 2018 initiative on structural racism, white privilege, and implicit bias. Check out this site to watch the multi-part learning series, access discussion and viewing guides, read perspectives from funders across the region, and more.
  • D5 Tools & Knowledge from the Field – Database of useful tools and insightful perspectives on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy in this clearinghouse of toolkits, data, case studies and other resources created by and for leaders in the field. They also published a DEI Self-Assessment.
  • Racial Equity Tools - This web site designed to support people and groups who are working for inclusion, racial equity and social justice. The site includes ideas, strategies and tips, as well as a clearinghouse of resources and links from many sources.
  • Racial Equity Resource Guide - This resource guide by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has been prepared as a shared tool for building a community of connected, informed and engaged practitioners. It provides practical resources that will assist those community-based organizations engaged in the fields of healing, equity and inclusion, diversity and the elimination of structural racism.
  • Summer Reading List - The Maryland Philanthropy Network’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee, compiled this list of top picks for your summer (or year-round) reading.
  • Baltimore Racial Justice Action’s Resources - With a focus on Baltimore, this website lists books, videos, websites as well as listserves, workshops, conferences, and ideas for action around anti-racism.
  • Race Matters Toolkit – Developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the toolkit is designed to help decision-makers, advocates and elected officials to get better results in their work by dismantling the systems and structures that prevent kids and families of color from reaching their full potential.
  • Advancing the Mission: Tools for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - RESPECT is an internal, multi-cultural affinity group of the Annie E. Casey Foundation whose mission is to strengthen the Foundation’s staff capacity to work effectively in diverse communities, and maximize its contributions to children and families in disinvested neighborhoods. This toolkit describes development experiences and lessons learned over the past 16 years.
  • The Race and Equity in Philanthropy Group (REPG) brings together foundations committed to improving their ability to effectively promote racial equity in their operations and practices. It is an active resource for specific practices in philanthropy covering issues around measurement, results, networks, evaluations, and measurable impact in communities.

  • Baltimore City Public Schools’ Equity Policy

  • Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers’ Racial Equity page

  • National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers’ Toolkit

  • Equitable Evaluation Initiative

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