Confluence’s Racial Equity Initiative – New Report Release
Confluence Philanthropy released a new report today that offers a strong call to action to advance racial equity in the investment industry. The report, “It’s About Time: A Call to Advance Racial Equity in the Investment Industry,” is the result of a year-long listening tour and research effort.
The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project
“The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.” Read it at BlackFuturesLab.org.
White Nationalism: Count it, Condemn it, Confront it
From one president to many others, Once again, I write heartbroken, this time over the massacre of 50 Muslim brothers and sisters in Christchurch, New Zealand. We join that nation in mourning their souls and celebrating their lives. I am also angry. The world bore witness to this horrific act of violence, livestreamed on social …
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NCF Welcomes Leticia Peguero, New Vice President of Programs
NEW YORK – The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) is pleased to announce that Leticia Peguero will join the Foundation as Vice President of Programs. Leticia brings more than 20 years of experience leading and managing programs and grantmaking at the intersections of social and racial justice and the arts. In her new role, she joins the …
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Confronting the Prison-Industrial Complex
Philanthropists can help address over-incarceration in America and the serious harm it does to communities by supporting efforts to better understand and confront the network of companies that currently profit from the US prison and detention system—what criminal justice experts call “the prison-industrial complex.” Read more via Arabella Advisors.
Jolt Texas’ We Are Texas Report
“We Are Texas is a study undertaken by Jolt Initiative in partnership with Ethnifacts and US-ness to better understand the values, issues, voting patterns and barriers to civic participation of one of the state’s largest and fastest growing demographic groups—young Latinos. Click here to read the full report.” Visit http://www.joltinitiative.org/research/ for more information.
Vera Institute’s Reimagining Prison Report
“Prison in America causes individual, community, and generational pain and deprivation. Built on a system of racist policies and practices that has disproportionately impacted people of color, mass incarceration has decimated communities and families. But the harsh conditions within prisons neither ensure safety behind the walls nor prevent crime and victimization in the community. In …
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NCF Welcomes Lavastian Glenn, Director, Racial and Economic Justice
NEW YORK – The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) is pleased to announce that Lavastian Glenn will join the Foundation as its Director, Racial and Economic Justice. In her new role, she joins the Foundation’s leadership team working to advance solutions to the two most challenging problems of our time – the climate crisis and growing …
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We Came to Learn: A Call to Action for Police-Free Schools – Advancement Project Report
“Safety does not exist when Black and Brown young people are forced to interact with a system of policing that views them as a threat and not as students. For many Black and Brown youth, the presence of police in their schools disrupts their learning environments. There is a culture clash that exists between law enforcement …
Reform/Transform: A Policing Policy Toolkit
For too long, communities across the country have lived with the reality of harmful policing practices and a punitive legal system that relies heavily on criminalization, rather than on crime prevention, restorative practices, and investment. The criminalization of marginalized communities is a cornerstone of our nation’s justice system—from the systemic divestment of social services from …
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Living in the Shadows: Latina Domestic Workers in the Texas-Mexico Border Region
“In 2016, three community-based organizations that operate in the Texas–Mexico border region collaborated on a participatory research project. A.Y.U.D.A. Inc., Fuerza del Valle Workers’ Center and Comité de Justicia Laboral/Labor Justice Committee trained 36 women from the local communities as surveyors. The surveyors, most of them domestic workers themselves, interviewed 516 housecleaners, nannies and care …
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Action Center on Race & The Economy’s Police Brutality Bonds: How Wall Street Profits from Police Violence Report
Read the Action Center on Race and the Economy report on their groundbreaking research of the link between finance and police violence. Visit https://www.acrecampaigns.org/pbb for more information.
What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
The racial wealth gap is large and shows no signs of closing. Recent data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation shows that black households hold less than seven cents on the dollar compared to white households.
Valerie Wilson on the Economic Inequality Gap for African Americans
Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute discussed EPI’s new report on the economic inequality gap for African Americans, 50 years after the Kerner Commission.