The Philanthropic Advisory Complex Is Failing Us (2025)
This article discusses philanthropy’s historical reliance on a network of elite philanthropic advisors — large consulting firms, intermediaries, donor advisors and legacy institutions — to shape strategies, allocate resources, guide critical leadership and management decisions, and direct investments in social […]
Countering Attacks on Racial Equity, Racial Equity Tools & Resources
This resource compilation was created to support organizations and individuals who are addressing the pressures to dilute their racial equity work, deal with legal issues, and for nonprofits that have lost funds because of their racial equity work. The resources […]
Early Childhood History, Organizing, Ethos, and Strategy Project (ECHOES)
ECHOES connects early care and education (ECE) today with its history and activism. Discover the origins of inequities for children, families, and educators and why the fight for a more just system continues. Related works include: Black Women’s Clubs: Progressive […]
Tracing the Roots of Systemic Racism in the US Early Childhood System (2021)
This article discusses the historical roots of child care providers – Black women who bore the burden of domestic work, including early childhood, first as forced labor while enslaved and then as an underpaid labor force; as well as the […]
The racist and sexist roots of child care in America explain why the system is in shambles (2021)
Unlike most developed nations, America has never treated care of its youngest children as a public good worthy of significant public investment, especially in relation to K-12 public education. Indeed, the pandemic highlighted the vast gulf in America that separates K-12 […]
Place Matters: Communicating the Relationship Between Place, Racism, and Early Childhood Development (2025)
Place Matters: Communicating the Relationship Between Place, Racism, and Early Childhood Development, offers research-based messaging strategies for talking about the connections between place, racism, and early childhood development and provides a set of recommendations that communicators can use and adapt […]
What Grantees Want Funders to Know (2024)
What Grantees Want Funders to Know is a new case study from the Asset Funders Network highlighting lessons from the Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt (SPRD), a multistate effort launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2017 to help address debt burdens faced by families […]
How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, A Timeline of Policies and Events (1800’s – 2023)
How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, A Timeline of Policies and Events (1800s to 2023), offers a historical view of significant U.S. federal policies and events spanning the early 1800s to today that have influenced present-day health […]
Collective Caregiving: A Frame for Talking About What Kids and Families Need to Thrive (2024)
Care requires everyone, is for everyone. FrameWorks Institute and Leading for Kids published Collective Caregiving: A Frame for Talking About What Kids and Families Need to Thrive, a guide about framing a narrative that will build demand for communities, environments, […]
Philanthropy Self-Assessment for Working with Tribal Communities
This tool developed by Native Americans in Philanthropy was designed to help funders determine where you are in your work with tribal communities, Native organizations, and Indigenous peoples, and to identify areas that can be strengthened as you move towards […]
Investing in Native Communities
Investing in Native Communities, a joint Project of Native Americans in Philanthropy and Candid, provides resources for funders on Narrative Change, Investments in Action, and and other resources including collection of reports, case studies, news stories, and media.
Language and Learning Resource for Non-Indigenous People
Language matters; the words we use carry power. This resource from Native Americans in Philanthropy is a resource for those who wish to expand their understanding of Indigenous communities and how they intersect with the philanthropic sector. This is not […]