Adhering to Our North Stars: Accountability with Dr. LaShay Harvey

As the Foundation has embarked on our new strategic plan over the last two years, many things have changed for us. For the first time in 25 years, the Horizon Foundation changed its vision, mission and values to better represent a bold new direction. We committed to leading with anti-racism as our north star, and to authentically partner with community at every level to deliver trust-centered philanthropy to achieve better health for all. This involved changing our grantmaking practices to invest more in relationship building, offer opportunities for longer-term, unrestricted operating grants and seek to upend longstanding power dynamics between funders and grantees. We have committed to co-creating solutions to big challenges with our community and putting people of color at the center of all of our work.

A critical piece of all of this work holding ourselves accountable – ensuring that we are living up to the values we hold, that we are “walking the walk” and that when we make mistakes, we own up to them. That is why we engaged Dr. LaShay Harvey and her team at Creation Stories Studio to be our learning and accountability partner. Dr. Harvey has spent the last two years with us observing our processes, engaging with staff and grantees and walking with us as we implemented our new strategic plan to assess how our actions have aligned with our new mission and vision. Though this work is ongoing, we recently sat down with Dr. Harvey for her to share some of her big picture takeaways about what the Foundation is doing well and some of the challenges we face.

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Source: Horizon Foundation