Race and Ethnicity

#AskHer: Addressing Disparities in Black Women’s Mental Health ft. Dr.Tyffani Dent…

The results of the recent CEP survey regarding foundation reactions to the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (which consolidated a similar case against University of North Carolina) decision reflect the broad…

Black people have often been at the forefront of movements for social change across the United States, both past and present, from protesting racial segregation to organizing against police brutality.…

1982 protests in The Warren, NC are considered one of the earliest examples of the environmental justice movement. A manufacturer of electrical transformers dumped tons of cancer-causing PCB waste along…

When we talk about the term “food justice,” I think there are lots of ways that people exclusively associate it with poverty and humans that have been forced to live in…

Some Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander families face unique barriers to accessing charitable food programs.

Latine business owners show significant growth. But year over year, investment numbers lag behind the trend. Organizations are setting out to close the gap.

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction seems…

Candid Blog | Learn about the challenges Black women and gender-expansive nonprofit leaders face, including a lack of trust–and the sector-wide implications of these disconcerting dynamics.

Reflecting on my first year as the inaugural Executive Director of the Phoenix Foundation, a Black-led non-profit organization dedicated to serving our Chicago community, I’m deeply entrenched in the complex dynamics…

To better understand how foundations broadly were responding to the Court’s rulings, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) conducted a survey of 280 foundation leaders in September through November 2023.…

Organizations like ACTS — which center the needs of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in their work — are making big strides on climate action. These efforts range…