🧵 In the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 murder, @IrvineFdn, like many funders, committed to embedding #racialequity in our programs, operations, and investments.
philanthropy.com/article/how-to…
philanthropy.com/article/how-to…
In addition to making $20 million in new grants to confront anti-Black racism and advance racial equity, we did a lot of internal work — knowing that biases in our internal operations directly impact our ability to advance racial justice in our external grantmaking.
I’m grateful to Irvine’s staff & board members who engaged fully in this process of tough examination, learning, conversation, & action.
The @Philanthropy piece linked above features reflections from several staff & board members – what worked well and what we could do better.
The @Philanthropy piece linked above features reflections from several staff & board members – what worked well and what we could do better.
As our VP of Program Implementation, Charles Fields, put it: “Our growth continues, including exploring how we can transfer more power to better advance equity… With humility, we add lessons to this collective learning and movement toward more equitable philanthropy.”
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