This 2012 report by the Funders for LGBTQ Issues, stems from a campaign to launch a multi-year initiative to increase grantmaking and strengthen lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and people of color (POC) organizations and communities. This report focuses on the stories of five foundations that have made an intentional commitment to engaging communities […]
This website by Educational Foundation of America outlines its socially responsible investment policy that seeks to link its grantmaking values with its investments to promote greater responsibility of corporations.
This 2009 guide by the Council of Michigan Foundations provides a chronology of the Board’s multiple steps toward growing institutional commitment to diversity and inclusion during 2002-2009.
This 2011 project by the Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) was The California Endowment’s (TCE) first internal organizational assessment of the foundation’s diversity and inclusivity policies and practices. This assessment, which produced the TCE Diversity & Inclusivity Report Card, was a voluntary effort to increase the institutional effectiveness of The Endowment’s grants portfolio and institutional […]
This statement by the Arcus Foundation requires all organizations seeking funding to have in place a board-approved Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy that specifically includes and lists sexual orientation and gender identity, and requires compliance with all other applicable federal and local EEO laws. Organizations with non-compliant EEO policies will not be considered for funding. […]
