minding the gap: philanthropy’s role in addressing income inequality larger community foundations...
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Minding the Gap: Philanthropy’s Role in Addressing Income Inequality
Larger Community Foundations Annual MeetingAustin, Texas
February 27, 2014
Yanique Redwood, PhD, MPHPresident & CEO
The Consumer Health Foundation
“We always have inequality, and in America we’re not upset about
inequality of outcomes. But we are upset about inequality of
opportunity.”
From Brookings Report
o The majority of Americans believe that redistribution favors racial minorities
o Americans believe that we live in an open and fair society and that if someone is poor it is his or her own fault
Why does a health philanthropy care about income and wealth?
Advocacy for Economic Justice
• Research• Community Education• Public Will Campaigns• Policy Analysis• Community Mobilization• Coalition Building
CWBICommunity Wealth Building Initiative
• Worker-owner cooperative businesses
• Anchor institutions– Hospitals– Universities– Local governments
• Living wages• Ownership and wealth
Narrative and Economic Policy
Image borrowed from www.bmecommunity.org
Summary
• Fund advocacy to reform our current economic system
• Seed efforts to create more just and democratized economic systems
• Lift up a more accurate set of images, narratives, and representations of people of color who are poor