Philanthropy

Race Forward has focused consistently on establishing a racial justice lens in grantmaking, a task for which the foundation world has had too few guideposts and resources. The need for such benchmarks motivated us to create a clear set of definitions, questions and processes to help foundations assess their internal and external systems not only to support organizations led by people of color, but also to drive resources toward those groups that operate with an analysis likely to generate more systemic and racially just solutions.

Energy Democracy: Honoring the Past and Investing in a New Energy Economy

October 20, 2020

Energy Democracy Cover over layout of inner pages.

Energy Democracy is a framework that is grounded in the solutions of BIPOC communities to invest in a regenerative economy that sustains our people and our planet.

Catalytic Change

May 20, 2009

Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment. The Applied Research Center (ARC) and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) developed the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment following ARC’s 2004 publication of Short Changed: Foundation Giving in Communities of Color.

Short Changed

April 15, 2006

Foundation Giving and Communities of Color. By Will Pittz and Rinku Sen.