This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the U.S., millions of people lack reliable and affordable water, transportation, energy, and broadband access. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought these underlying infrastructure failures into sharp relief; for Americans who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sharon Austin, University of Florida On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States, entrepreneurship represents more than just owning a business and pursuing the proverbial American Dream. Instead, the ability for Black people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I invite donors to act as boldly as the Black and brown women whose bodies are the front lines of change. In Georgia, long before the 2020 elections were part of the national news…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What is wealth? Wealth is more than money and financial assets. Critical to the accumulation and sustainability of wealth is power and agency; a sense of control over one’s life…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The deep wounds of systemic racism have plagued communities across this country for generations, and in 2020, the largest response in this nation’s history made it explicitly clear that we…
As COVID has accelerated the movement to “remote everything,” the digital exclusion of historically marginalized groups is facing crisis proportions. In response, the National Urban League, working with other civil…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a report on foundations’ equity efforts related to the 2020 crises released in December by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), the organization I lead, we found that of 218 foundations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part one of a four-part series. Read Parts Two, Three, and Four. What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part Two in a four-part series about the Georgia Systemic Change Alliance. Read Parts One, Three, and Four. By August, city and community leaders in Savannah, Ga. are expected to have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the 1930s, as laws were passed to exclude Black people from generating wealth through homeownership, racist investor regulations were created for the same purpose, with the Securities and Exchange…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A report by the Forward Promise National Program Office describes how implicit and explicit biases against boys and young men of color held by members of…