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Future Matters – Equity Advancing Equity: How Community Philanthropy Can Build Racial and Social Equity Through Mission Investing

This 2009 report is part of a series of Future Matters reports and toolkit by Blueprint Research & Design and GPS Capital Partners LLC. This paper brings together two ostensibly disparate definitions of equity—one that relates to the distribution of resources across economic and racial groups and another that looks at capital market concepts and […]


Moving Diversity Up the Agenda: Lessons and Next Steps from the DPP

This 2010 report by J. Bearman et al in the Journal of Philanthropy discusses the Diversity in Philanthropy Project (DPP), a three-year voluntary effort of foundation trustees, staff, and philanthropy support organization executives committed to increasing diversity and inclusive practice across philanthropy’s leadership, grantmaking, and investing. DPP yielded lessons applied to the development of a […]


Growing Opportunities: Will Funding Follow the Rise in Foundation Assets and Growth of AAPI Populations?

This 2007 report by the Asian Americans/ Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy provides data and analysis on funding in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in the United States. The report includes the amount of funding to community issues, who gives and receives the funding, the giving patterns that emerge, and how well AAPI […]


Better Together: Research Findings on the Relationship between Racial Justice Organizations and LGBT Communities

This 2010 report by the Applied Research Center, in partnership with the Arcus Foundation, is a result of surveys and interviews with more than 80 organizations and 30 key leaders. It is based on the premise that significant numbers of LGBT people are of color and it focuses on current engagement efforts, perceived barriers, potential […]


Advancing the Mission Toolkit: Tools for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

This 2009 toolkit by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is a collection of tools based on the creation of an internal affinity group named RESPECT. Originally created as an informal place for staff concerned with racial equity to exchange ideas it has evolved to become an integral part of the Foundation’s work in underserved communities. […]