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This Public-Private Partnership Is Using Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Racial Justice in Oakland
March 16, 2024 Cities are centers of tremendous wealth, but also deep inequality. As the world rapidly urbanizes, with more than half of the global population now living…
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To Save American Democracy, Donors Should Trade Tax Breaks for Political Wins
By Pamela Shifman and Lateefah Simon President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, breaking windows and clashing with police in protest of the ratification of President-elect…
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How Philanthropy Can Make a Lasting Commitment to Racial Justice
In this period of continued racial reckoning in America, we are reflecting on the days after Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in 2014.…
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Inside Philanthropy Akonadi: Meet a Couple Focused on Racial Justice in the Bay Area
By Ade Adeniji / May 2, 2021 Based in Oakland, California, Akonadi Foundation is on a mission to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate…
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KQED’S FORUM: Could Chauvin Guilty Verdict Spur Police Departments To Reform?
LISTEN HERE TO FORUM ON KQED. Supporters of police reform are expressing relief at the guilty verdicts on all counts in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer…
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Ella Baker Center’s Meet Sisters in the Movement to Realize Racial Justice
Centering Healing and the Leadership of Incarcerated People in the Fight By Ashley Chambers In the past year, communities across the nation have banded together in the fight…
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Why is it so hard for Black-led nonprofits to get funding?
By Justin Phillips SF Chronicle Feb. 20, 2021 The California Black Freedom Fund began this month with a five-year goal of raising $100 million for Black-led nonprofits, which…
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With an Impressive List of Backers, a New Fund Supports Black-Led Groups in California
Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minnesota last May, the U.S. has found itself reckoning with its long history of institutional…
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California Foundations Drop $100 Million in “Black Freedom Fund”
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media February 9, 2021 by CBM Newswire (CBM) – Last week, philanthropic organizations and other funders joined hands to launch the California Black…
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