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Effective and Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities: Building a Framework and Agenda for Change

This document outlines ABFE’s framework for effective philanthropy in black communities, including the role that philanthropy should take in constituency engagement, policy change, system reform, program delivery, leadership development, and data collection and research.


Evaluation Tools for Racial Equity

This website by the Center for Assessment and Policy Development and MP Associates provides a series of resources for conducting evaluations that take into account issues of racism, power, privilege, and oppression.  It serves to further community efforts to achieve racial equity and justice through evaluation.


Racial Justice & Inclusion: A Primer For LGBT Movement Funders

This 2007 publication by Movement Advancement Project provides information to LGBT movement funders to work explicitly on issues of racial justice and inclusion within and around the LGBT movement.  It makes the case for why funders for LGBT equality should work explicitly on racial matters, recommends philanthropic approaches to racial justice and inclusion, and identifies […]


Reframing Community Endowment as a Tool for Community Leadership: How social investing could change how community foundations think about their financial assets

This 2007 report by Monitor Institute is part of a series, Future Matters, that describes emerging issues and trends in which community foundations can apply their endowed capital to the pursuit of their overall mission to enhance community philanthropy.  


Mission Investors Exchange

This website provides an extensive library of reports, guides, articles, research, case studies, stories from the field, investment policy templates, and conference and webinar archives. It is designed for foundations interested in mission investing, both program-related and mission-related.