This 2010 report by Leadership Learning Community offers practical methods and recommendations to help leadership programs prepare participants to bring a more race conscious lens to their work and empower people of color to better lead their communities.
This brochure by Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation provides a statement of how diversification of the Board and staff has enriched the foundation’s focus and strategies.
This 2011/2012 article by Barbara Heisler in Responsive Philanthropy provides case examples of foundations using an activist-advised model of grant making — democratizing philanthropy by handing grantmaking decisions to boards of activists that represent the diversity of the community.
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 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.
