Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resources

This is a living page of resources that will be updated regularly. We value member input and we encourage you to share any resources that you would recommend to your philanthropy colleagues and we will add them to the list below.

Guides & Tools for Organizations

• POWER MOVES: Your essential philanthropy assessment guide for equity and justice - National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
• AWAKE to WOKE to WORK: Building a Race Equity Culture - Equity in the Center
• Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide - Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
• Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking - GrantCraft by Candid
• Racial Equity Tools - Race Forward
• Research, Data Collection Tools, Communications Tools, & DEI Self-Assessment - D5 Coalition

Trainings

• Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training
• Equity in the Center
• People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB)
• Race Forward
• Racial Equity Institute

Initiatives & Coalitions

• CHANGE Philanthropy
• D5 Coalition
• Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI)
• Trust-Based Philanthropy Project
• Funders for Justice

Organizations with Dedicated Focus on Equity & Justice

• Equity in the Center
• Justice Funders
• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
• Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
• Race Forward

Other Reading and Resources

• Black Foundation Executives Request Action by Philanthropy on Anti-Black Racism - Joint statement with ABFE
• Talking About Race – National Museum of African American History & Culture
• 11 Terms You Should Know Better to Understand Structural Racism – The Aspen Institute
• Racial Equity Resource Guide - W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Equity and Racial Justice Philanthropy Resources - Arabella Advisors
• 64 Black Foundation Leaders Tell Philanthropy to Go Big in Response to Pandemic and Police Killings – The Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Continuum on Becoming An Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization - Crossroads Ministry, Chicago IL
• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture in Organizations - Excerpted from Dismantling Racism, A Workbook for Social Change Groups.
• Race, Equity, and Unavoidable Challenges for Philanthropy – Phil Buchanon, CEP
• How to Build an Antiracist World - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Ted Talk
• Dismantling Racism Might Require Philanthropy to Dismantle Itself – Lisa Pilar Cowan, Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Dear Philanthropy: These Are the Fires of Anti-Black Racism – Wil Cordery, NPQ
• When We Do Nothing in the Face of Racism and Brutality, We Represent Amy Cooper and Derek Chauvin. We Are Complicit. – Zac Block, Public Source
• So You Want to Be a White Ally: Healing From White Supremacy – Caitlin Duffy, Equity in the Center
• Communities Transforming Policing Fund at Borealis
• Racial Healing+Justice Fund - Forward Through Ferguson
• So You’ve Declared That Black Lives Matter. Now What? - The Management Center
• Have Nonprofit and Philanthropy Become the "White Moderate" That Dr. King Warned Us About? Nonprofit AF
• The Color of Wealth McKinsey Quarterly

Identity-based Affinity Groups

• ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities
• Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)
• Community Investment Network (CIN)
• Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP)
• Funders for LGBTQ Issues
• Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP)
• Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP)
• Resource Generation