Recommendation
Consider finding ways to diversify your network and the organizations you fund, by, for example, intentionally engaging with organizations beyond the types of entities and approaches that you are most familiar and comfortable with, and questioning your frame of reference for what is ‘a fit.’
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Making It Count: The Evolution of the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data Collection
The Center for Effective Philanthropy walks through their organizational learnings around collecting diversity data on gender and race/ethnicity amongst their grantees.
Source: The Center for Effective PhilanthropyFrom Words to Action A Practical Philanthropic Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Recommendations for evaluating a foundation’s history of inequity, helping grantees incorporate DEI practices operationally, collecting diversity data, and introducing new grantees focused on grassroots, intersectional work.
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Source: Barbara Chow, Grantcraft, Foundation CenterOn Trust & Transparency: Full Report
Download the full report.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Interview Guide
The interview guide used for the participant interviews during the Partner Perspectives project.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Survey Guide
The survey guide used for the Partner Perspectives project. This was hosted in LimeSurvey an open-source survey tool that can be self-hosted or hosted via Limesurvey’s website.
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Source: Simply Secure