This guide by Funders for LGBTQ Issues provides a step-by-step framework for structural change grantmaking utilizing historical experience, relationships and needs within diverse communities. It includes a structural analysis worksheet, an impact assessment tool, and sample RFPs.
This 2007 toolkit by the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers is designed to provide community leaders with the tools and outlines they need to start a racial, ethnic or tribal fund. Each topic– Structure, Capital, and Grants – contains key questions, choices, suggestions, lessons learned, and additional resources.
This 2006 publication by Betty Emarita of Effective Communities provides a series of questions to help community foundations become more intentional catalysts for social justice by recognizing specific causes of racial inequalities and how to change them.
This 2000 toolkit by Donors Forum of Chicago, Minnesota Council on Foundations, Northern California Grantmakers, and New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (now Philanthropy New York) provides a framework for grantmaking organizations to address inclusivity in their roles as funders, employers, businesses and community partners. For each role the toolkit gives case examples, questions for […]
This 2005 guide created by the Inclusiveness Project at the Denver Foundation provides an intentional focus on race and ethnicity, but is adaptable to other dimensions of inclusiveness. It includes detailed steps, worksheets and sample documents for making a long-term organizational commitment to inclusiveness.
