Dorothy A. Johnson Center Title: Black Women Face Multiple Forms of Racism in Philanthropy Link: Click Here
Northern California Grantmakers Title: Making The Leap: How Four Philanthropy-Serving Organizations Elevated Their Work and Shaped Their Regions — and the Support that Helped Make it Happen Link: Click Here Big Picture: This report serves as a collection of case studies demonstrating how a trust-based funder-grantee partnership enabled four philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs) to leap from aspiration to sustained leadership and action. To tackle injustices in their regions and witness significant advances for their communities today and for many years to come. Key Takeaways: The four themes that enabled PSO’s to take the leap from aspiration to sustained leadership were the following: 1. Advancing Equity 2. Shaping Public Policy 3. Partnering with Government 4. Mobilizing support for communities
Big Picture: This blog post explores various types of racism a Black woman who leads a race and gender-centered donor-advised fund experienced in her journey. Key Takeaways: To combat racist, anti-Black policies, and practices in philanthropy, philanthropy must focus on diversity or representation or even racial equity. Philanthropy must intentionally dismantle white supremacy and the ways it accommodates whiteness. Philanthropy still over focuses on the problematic consequences of racism, not its contribution to it. Nonprofit AF Title: The Mycelium Model for capacity builders, professional associations, funders, and other support organizations Link: Click Here Big Picture: This blog shares the importance of nonprofit support organizations - Tax-exempt organizations that provide various services that help strengthen the nonprofit sector. Key Takeaways: Nonprofit support organizations help with the following: 1. Bringing resources to nonprofits. 2. Remove barriers so that nonprofits can do their work. 3. Bring leaders together, creating spaces that are conducive to honest discussions, feedback, and collaboration. 4. Help organizations cooperate through connecting but also through the intentional setting up of symbiotic relationships. 5. Fight off damaging beliefs and policies, such as the destructive focus on “overhead.” 6. Help nonprofits that are no longer effective or that were formed for a specific time-bound purpose to dissolve.
Stanford Social Innovation Review Title: (Re)thinking Funder Networks and Collaboratives Link: Click Here
Big Picture: This blog shares that although many grantmakers questioned the value of supporting PSOs and funder collaboratives, they simultaneously embraced collective impact and other strategies to encourage learning and collaboration among their grantees. Key Takeaway: The author defends the importance of PSO’s on three key themes: 1. Accelerating action 2. Aligning support 3. Enabling collective voice
7. Bringing resources to nonprofits led by and serving people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ folks, older adults, people in rural communities, etc.
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