REPG continues to move forward with its focus on power-sharing. An Op-Ed reflecting on the importance of advancing a commitment to power-sharing was drafted and signed by a few core members of REPG. The Op-Ed will be circulated for publication in several philanthropic media outlets in the next few weeks. Additionally, REPG will begin developing its draft Power-Sharing Framework into a publication highlighting foundation examples of power-sharing in practice to be released in late Fall. The publication will be preceded by a webinar to showcase examples of how REPG members are approaching various aspects of power-sharing. | |
REPG and Community Foundations | |
REPG's power-sharing work led to the creation of a Task Force model in our core group of members, which we realized can be applied to other issues. In learning exchanges, it is very apparent that foundations, which engage and depend upon donors share unique circumstances when considering how to advance racial equity policies and practices.
Therefore, REPG is exploring the creation of a Community Foundations Task Force to discuss the topic of working with donors and addressing issues of donor intent as it relates to having a core commitment to racial equity. The purpose of the Task Force is to provide a supportive learning space as well as produce ideas and tools on engaging donors that could be useful to the broader philanthropic field. We will share more as this work evolves.
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REPG-United Philanthropy Forum Partnership | |
REPG recently concluded a second cohort of its learning exchange series with members of Workforce Matters. The cohort was unique in its composition and consisted of foundations, a funder collaborative, and a workforce development organization. The topic for the final session was reflecting a commitment to racial equity in organizational culture and featured REPG member Valerie Goode from the San Francisco Foundation (SFF) who shared concrete examples of how SFF has approached their internal culture. At the end of the session participants highlighted the value of being with others who are experiencing similar issues, such as how to move forward a racial equity agenda from the middle or from a grantmaking focus to the entire organization. They also greatly appreciated the pre-reads, and resources and tools that were shared by participants throughout the series.
A new learning exchange series has begun with a cohort of members from Philanthropy Northwest. The first session was held on January 25 on the topic of organizational culture. The session featured REPG member Shantell Hill, from Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, who provided valuable lessons for the group particularly around the topic of Board engagement and composition. The session also revealed the unique challenges of rural philanthropy and navigating racial equity conversations in highly polarized and conservative environments.
A new learning exchange series will begin with a cohort of members from Philanthropy California in the Spring. We are also beginning a conversation with a new PSO, Funders for LGBTQ Issues to work with a cohort of their members in Spring or early Fall.
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REPG Core Member Spotlight | |
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In 2010, the California Endowment launched the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative to advance health equity and improve health outcomes of low-income people of color in 14 communities. The Endowment decided to share what the community and partners have taught the foundation over a decade. In the Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Philanthropic Investment in People Power, the foundation emphasized that "power and people can make a positive healthy change if you invest in it."
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The San Francisco Foundation - ReWork the Bay | |
ReWork the Bay is a project of the San Francisco Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, that envisions an equitable Bay Area where everyone has access to quality, empowered jobs that allow them to benefit from and shape the region’s growing economy. The initiative’s mission is to advance collective solutions that increase the number of people in the Bay Area who have quality, empowered employment that offers both “pay and say” when determining equitable conditions.
ReWork the Bay and partners, such as the National Equity Atlas and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, helped create the State of Bay Area Workers, an interactive data tool that enables users to disaggregate the data for each Bay Area county, and shows trends in the data over time.
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REPG Affiliates are Foundations that have previously participated in a series of peer-learning exchanges through a REPG partnership with a PSO. | |
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors |
Shifting Power to Shift Systems: Insights & Tools for Funders publication is part of the Shifting Systems Initiative launched in 2016 by a number of philanthropic organizations and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, supported by a Steering Group that over time has included the Skoll Foundation, Ford Foundation, Porticus, Chandler Foundation, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Jasmine Social Investments. The initiative’s aim is to encourage funders to place longer-term, more adaptive resources with their grantee partners to scale their solutions and impact, and enable sustained, positive systems change by shifting the conditions that hold problems in place. Its mission has remained consistent over its lifetime: to examine when, how, and why certain solutions achieve system-level shifts, and to share the lessons and recommendations from those successes.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy | |
A Family Fund’s Response to the Racial Reckoning: Give All Its Assets to One Black-Focused Nonprofit describes how a Baltimore foundation gave nearly all of its $1 million in assets to resuscitate a nonprofit newspaper. Its goal: to put the money in the hands of a Black-led charity and counter the idea it’s enough just to give to racial-equity organizations.
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Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. | |
ABFE's Director of Programs, T.J. Breeden moderated a spirited panel at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. on September 28th, 2022. The Prosperity Gap: Socio-Economic Disparity, Poverty, and Philanthropy's Role in Shaping Pathways to Greater Social Equity in Black Communities panel centered the ways that philanthropy and Black communities can work together to mitigate the health inequities that disproportionately impact Black communities and discussed the nuances of sustaining Black civic engagement.
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Native Americans in Philanthropy | |
Native Americans in Philanthropy's Member Education Sessions: Moving Philanthropy Beyond Land Acknowledgements panel discusses the importance of land acknowledgements and highlights how these acknowledgements can be paired with meaningful action to move philanthropy into a more equitable and effective relationship with Indigenous communities.
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Community-Driven Philanthropy: Giving Away Assets, Not Grants calls on philanthopy to rellocate assets, which would cede money and agency to BIPOC communities and may foster a system that is responsive to and respectful of those communities’ needs. This article introduces a new NPQ series titled Community-Driven Philanthropy. In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one which supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities.
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The California Wellness Foundation | |
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East Bay Community Foundation | |
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