Inside Philanthropy Julia Travers | 4/14/20
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Black people and other people of color are disproportionately harmed by COVID-19. We recently covered some early funding responses in support of people who are black, Hispanic, Indigenous, or Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI). The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) and its founder and ED, Lori Villarosa, are well-versed in racially focused funding. We spoke to Villarosa about her organization’s work over the past two decades, their newest guide, and how funders can best respond to the coronavirus.
“This current global crisis really brings into focus how the cumulative impacts of structural racism generate awful racial disparities in who is getting the virus, who is being hospitalized, and, tragically, higher rates of death… Sadly, these [trends] were too predictable for any of us attuned to our communities,” she says. Read More
