HEFN offers the following resources in support of opportunities to be a funder ally for Black lives and racial justice every day.
Upcoming Webinars
- Monday, June 8, 1-2 p.m. ET / 10-11 a.m. PT: The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) webinar, “New Realities, New Data: Nonprofits in Crisis and What Donors Need to Know” for individual donors, foundation staff and board members, and nonprofit leaders will highlight results from a nationally representative survey of nonprofits on what they need most from their funders and individual donors.
- Monday, June 8, 2-3:30 p.m. ET/ 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. PT: The Funders’ Network for Smart Group and Livable Communities, the Environmental Grantmakers Association and HEFN will co-sponsor the webinar, “Advancing Water Equity in Coronavirus Recovery,” for funders and their grantees.
- Thursday, June 11, 2-3 p.m. ET / 11 a.m.-noon PT: The Council on Foundations and the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) webinar “How Foundations Are Shaping Policy During Covid-19” will feature CEP’s report, “Policy Influence: What Foundations Are Doing and Why” in an interactive discussion about how philanthropy can be involved in policy and legislation.
- Tuesday, June 16, 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT: The BEA Funder Ally Webinar, “Philanthropic-Grassroots Cooperation to Meet the COVID Crisis,” invites funders and philanthropic partners to discuss ways that funders can be strong allies to grassroots organizations who center racial justice in moving toward environmental health and justice. Co-sponsored by the Environmental Grantmakers Association and HEFN.
- Mental Health and Wellness: HEFN co-chair Jalonne L. White-Newsome hosted The Kresge Foundation’s “Mental Health and Wellness: Resilience Begins with Me!” program for May’s Mental Health Awareness Month, sharing, “At this time, the importance of HEALTH–physical, mental, and spiritual—is essential.”
Action and Communications
M4BL Week of Action In Defense of Black Lives, June 1-2, 2020.
Environmental Groups Stand in Solidarity with Movement for Black Lives Demands/Week of Action
Funders for Justice, A national network of funders increasing resources to grassroots organizations addressing the intersection of racial justice, gender justice, community safety, and policing.
Messaging This Moment: Mobilizing Our Base and Persuading the Middle on Policing, Protest and Racial, Messaging Guide (Race-Class Narrative Action and ASO Communications)
Community Conversation – How Foundations and Nonprofits Can Communicate About Racial Injustice, The Communications Network, Responding to Racial Injustice Virtual Roundtable
Working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. Created by Princeton Theological Seminary graduate students to facilitate growth for white people to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work.
Articles
- Hot & Bothered: Why Defunding the Police is Key to Just Transition, with J. Mijin Cha, Dissent Magazine, June 4, 2020.
- Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-Racism, The New York Times, June 2, 2020.
- Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue, Slate, June 2, 2020.
- Responding to protests, green groups reckon with a racist past, Grist, June 2, 2020.
- Rep. Barbara Lee proposes racial healing and truth commission amid pandemic, protests, San Francisco Chronicle. Introduction of legislation by Congresswoman Barbara Lee Deb Haaland establishing a Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Commission to examine the effects of slavery and racism against people of color, on American history, and its impact on laws and policies in effect today. June 1, 2020.
- Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot, Medium, May 28, 2020.
- Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations and Global Environmental Discourse study, PLOS ONE, May 27, 2020.
- America is Burning: White People What is Your Move? HEFN GivingInSight blog post by Vanessa Daniel, Groundswell Fund, originally published Sept. 14, 2017, and tragically still relevant.
HEFN Member Statements in Support of Racial Justice
California Wellness Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Recommended Reading
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Advancing Racial Equity in Philanthropy: A Scan of Philanthropy-Serving Organizations, a United Philanthropy Forum report on regional and national philanthropy-serving organizations’ current work and future needs to advance racial equity in philanthropy.
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Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture, ProInspire report outlining seven levers for institutional action towards a culture of race equity.
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Choir Book: A Framework for Social Justice Philanthropy social justice philanthropic praxis guide created by the Justice Funders.
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Guidestar DEI and Demographic Data, knowledge base of information on nonprofit organization’s staff and leadership race and ethnicity identity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and diversity strategies in Nonprofit Profiles.
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How Racism Makes Us Sick TED Talk by David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University, Harvard University Public Health.
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Power Moves, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy self-assessment toolkit/guide for equity and justice.
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Putting Racism on the Table Video Series, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers videos.
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Racial equity: Not something you do, article by Dr. Yanique Redwood, Consumer Health Foundation.
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Race Forward’s Building Racial Equity series, collection of interactive trainings for those who wish to sharpen their skills and strategies to address structural racism and advance racial equity.
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Starting the Conversation: Using a Gender Lens in Your Grantmaking, funder guide from Philanthropy New York’s Funders for Gender Equity group.
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Tools for Advancing DEI, D5 Coalition website resources from a multi-year project focused on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy.