Workshop

Fort Worth’s Fund to Advance Racial Equity: Perspectives From Two Grantees

Hear from March to the Polls and Community Frontline, two Fort Worth-area nonprofits that have received grants and capacity-building support under the Fund to Advance Racial Equity at the North Texas Community Foundation. Nonprofit leaders will share about their programming, as well as their experience participating in a cohort-based grant program. You’ll learn about strategies…

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Racial Equity and Systems Change: Learning from Collective Impact

What does it take to create systems change that centers racial equity in the process, participation, and outcomes of a coalition? This interactive session will share lessons and practical tools created with and inspired by the work of hundreds of coalitions across the U.S. The session will be grounded in a definition and approach to…

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Leveraging Racial Equity Assessments to Spark Change in Communities of Practice

As the nonprofit sector doubles down on its commitment to advance workplace equity, we must collectively cultivate spaces for peer learning and offer accessible tools to assess diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts across the industry. Join the Building Movement Project (BMP) and ProInspire for an interactive workshop exploring how organizations use expert-tested DEI assessments…

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Continuous Becoming: Artistic Practice and Community Building In Response to Racism, Ableism, and Shame

Black and Disabled   individuals living in the United States consistently contend with institutional and compounding systemic racism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, sexism, and classism. In recent years, these systemic challenges have compelled artists and leaders within Black and Disability communities to rely on art and protest as a way to find meaning and resolve within the…

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I Just Want To Help: Understanding the Problematic Roots of Volunteerism and Moving Forward With Compassion

The desire to help others can be a powerful motivation to volunteer, but when that desire is rooted in pity and paternalism, or a need to save someone seen as less fortunate, it can do more harm than good. Too often, organizations use language based in saviorism to recruit and motivate volunteers, especially volunteers coming…

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Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations: Building a Culture of Repair

The issue of reparations has recently gained considerable momentum. However, many define reparations narrowly — as cash payments, relegated to the public sector, and only benefitting Black people. Liberation Ventures and The Bridgespan Group think differently. Reparations for slavery and its legacy are not just about money or policy; reparations are comprehensive repair and require…

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Better Language: A New Voice for Philanthropy

The past few years have been pivotal for philanthropy. In the midst of simultaneous health, economic, and racial justice crises, foundations and philanthropists have shown how flexible they can be to support the immediate needs of communities across the U.S. Despite this, there is still uncertainty about what philanthropy as a sector even is. The…

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Public Dollars for Public Good

Public investments transcend what philanthropy generates in a lifetime. Our federal government spends trillions of dollars on everything from improving the conditions of roads and subsidizing food for poor families to providing healthcare to the elderly and education for our children. But, over the past 60 years, our government has shifted from investing in the…

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Elevating Diverse Voices Through New Models of Civic Engagement

Points of Light’s Civic Circle® is a framework that helps the social sector advance a cause or social issue based on the idea that a diversified engagement strategy, intentionally expanded beyond volunteering, can create pathways for increased and deeper engagement. For those not yet involved, it provides an onramp where there may be barriers. For…

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Making Demographic Data Work for Nonprofits

There is heightened interest in nonprofit demographic data — to gain visibility into equity in the sector, uplift the work of BIPOC-led organizations, and direct resources to the communities they serve. But duplicate and disparate requests for this information have created a significant burden on the same nonprofits we pledged to support. How, then, can…

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