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Resources and Funding

This section includes content about work that various philanthropies and organizations that work with them are doing to promote investment and build capacities around racial equity, social justice and inclusion. It also provides resources on ways to fund racial equity and social justice work.

A Community Builders' Toolkit mentions some of "the more common funding sources for local reform projects: community, corporate, and national sponsors (when the efforts are administered by 501(c) (3) organizations); fees as reimbursement for services when groups are delivering services (through contracts with government or other service providers); revenues from products and services, such as training; membership fees; donor contributions and fund raising events."

[FN: A Community Builders' Toolkit, by IDR and Project Change, p. 24.]

Much of the content of this section is about philanthropy; however, philanthropy is only one of several ways that racial equity work gets funded, and there are of course many pro's and con's for seeking and accepting funding from institutions for work aimed at disrupting institutional or structural racism. In addition to information about foundations, including their social change and racial equity work, content for this section includes information on different fundraising strategies (e.g. special events).