Friday, February 23, 2018
Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism
Racial disparities in philanthropic giving are fundamentally about whom we trust to lead us to change, whom we think of as strategic, and how we measure the capacity to do great work. Grant makers must take conscious action to challenge our deepest, and sometimes unconscious, assumptions — assumptions that pose as common sense — if we are ever going to make true progress in significantly shifting funding to transformative work led by people of color.
Shifman, Executive Director of NoVo Foundation, offers three ways white people in philanthropy can begin to respond to racism...