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Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children

This 2014 report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores the intersection of kids, race and opportunity. The report features the new Race for Results index, which compares how children are progressing on key milestones across racial and ethnic groups at the national and state level.


Population-Focused Funds: Positioning for the Future

This 2014 report by the D5 Coalition and the Bridgespan Group identifies multiple pathways toward greater sustainability and impact for population-focused funds. This research report highlights what is possible when population-focused funds find a unique and valued niche within their communities.


D5 Coalition Guiding Principles for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This statement of principles was developed to guide the leadership institutions of the D5 Coalition, setting an aspirational standard of operating practice as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The principles can be used as a guide for foundations and institutions as they engage in their own reflective process.


Taking Account of Race

In this 2008 speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington, Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, spoke about how foundations must take race into account in all of their work.


Race Inequity Frameworks Toolkit

This 2009 toolkit by Funders for LGBTQ Issues provides frameworks and approaches for understanding racial inequities in Policies, Programs and Grantmaking.