This article, from an interview with Takema Robinson, executive director of the Greater New Orleans Funders Network and CEO of Converge Consulting, brings a core question front and center regarding the uses, effects, and even basic ownership rights of philanthropy in a democratic and racialized context, applying it to disaster philanthropy—a frame that is in much use right now. It appears in the fall 2020 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly.
Takema Robinson says the US is besieged with multiple disasters—not the least of which is the crumbling of our democracy—and philanthropy is behind the curve.
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The modern arts acropolis—like Lincoln Center, for example—may be ill fated over the period to come, but its problems can be traced to the original design.
Baltimore’s City Council voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day, joining an estimated 70 cities that did something similar in the past year.
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