What funders get right – and wrong – about diversity. PEAK2021 is 3 weeks away. VOTE! Trending on CONNECT. Weekly Reads.

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** What Funders Get Right – and Wrong – About Diversity
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PEAK2021 Online keynote Pamela Newkirk talks about the inequities she sees in the philanthropic sector and what leaders must do to align the values they articulate on paper with their real-world practices.
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** Just Three Weeks Away!
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** Weekly Reads
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"Art – including stories, visuals and performances – can help build empathy, challenge deeply held beliefs, drive change and promote healing. Art can lower defense mechanisms and help people engage meaningfully in difficult work. And art can create space to co-create new visions for the community – such as alternatives to traditional policing." [more] ([link removed])
Carla Taylor, Community Wealth Partners, and Michelle D. Johnson, The Kresge Foundation, in Next City

"[M]any of the through-lines we’ve been tracking in philanthropy for five years have new meaning and urgency as 2021 begins – but they’ve been there all along. [And there are questions we] must now address more forcefully, including: the sprawling impacts of wealth inequality; significant declines in public trust in institutions and in each other; the bright and dark sides of technological proliferation; and the systemic racism permeating so many aspects of our society and democracy." [more] ([link removed])
11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2021, Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

“This new AAPIP report finds that foundation funding designated for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities only accounts for 0.20 percent of all U.S. grantmaking. This mirrors findings from AAPIP’s 1992 report – from three decades ago. [...] As AAPI communities seek to soar and reach new heights, they continue to be hamstrung by an alarmingly low level of philanthropic investment.” [more] ([link removed])
Seeking to Soar: Foundation Funding for Asian American & Pacific Islander Communities, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

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