Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

On the Frontlines: Nonprofits Led by People of Color Confront COVID-19 and Structural Racism

Release Date:

10/02/2020

The Building Movement Project’s report, On the Frontlines: Nonprofits Led by People of Color Confront COVID-19 and Structural Racism, shines a spotlight on how 2020’s social upheavals are affecting people of color-led (POC) nonprofit organizations and their communities, programs, leadership, and financial sustainability. The report also provides recommendations to strengthen these nonprofits, leaders of color, and their communities well beyond the crisis response and recovery period and for decades to come.

United Way Digital Divide Program Provides Tablets To Students In Need Ahead Of Virtual Start To School Year

Release Date:

08/21/2020

Technology is now an essential part of learning for many children across Maryland who are about to begin school virtually. But not every family can afford the computers and tablets that are needed to keep students in class.

Philanthropy Won’t Make Headway on Racial Justice Without Tackling Housing Justice

Release Date:

08/17/2020

In the past five months that have seemed like an eternity, philanthropy has faced a reckoning on the deep racial inequities that plague society and our institutions at all levels.

Left Behind: Data shows Black-owned businesses in Baltimore were largely shut out of PPP funding

Release Date:

07/31/2020

Fewer than a third of Paycheck Protection Program loans of at least $150,000 in Baltimore went to areas of the city where minorities make up the majority of the population — and most of those loans didn't go to Black-owned businesses, a Baltimore

An Open Letter from BIPOC Leaders in Food & Agriculture to Food Systems Funders

Release Date:

07/10/2020

We write to you as Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) leaders in food and agriculture who work with hundreds of grassroots communities across the country who have been at and on the frontlin

Communications Strategies Have Shifted During Pandemic but Often Don’t Address Racial Equity

Release Date:

07/06/2020

As we contend with two seismically important events — the Covid -19 pandemic and the uprisings over police brutality and systemic racism — foundations and nonprofits need to work harder than ever to build trust in their programs and policies.

T. Rowe Price commits $2 million to fighting racial injustice

Release Date:

06/19/2020

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. is donating $2 million to organizations fighting racial injustice.

How to reconstruct an equitable future for the D.C. region

Release Date:

06/19/2020

We are in a trifecta of crises that threatens our nation’s public health, economic security and democracy. Though this pandemic is new, racism and economic injustice are not. The pandemic has served to further reveal preexisting inequities in housing, education, health care, food security, policing and criminal justice, income and employment.

The Race Gap: Opportunities to Lead Nonprofits Are Still Unequal

Release Date:

06/18/2020

The nation is once again at a critical point in the centuries-long struggle to live up to its founding ideals.

Dear Business Community: What has changed since Freddie Gray?

Release Date:

06/15/2020

What will the business community do this time?

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