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SystemsChangesTowardsEquityandInclusionintheMidwest:VisionandPracticalGrantmakingSteps
Thursday,May25,2017
KevinRyanProgramDirector
NewYorkFoundation
GraceHouPresident
WoodsFundChicago
NFGBuilding safe, inclusive, and more equitable communities
May 25, 2017
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Overview
• Woods Fund Chicago• Context for the Region• Woods Fund’s Key Strategies• Progress• Practical Grantmaking Lessons
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Woods Fund Chicago funds organizations that draw on the power of communities to fight the brutality of poverty and structural racism.
• Funds: grantmaking organization• Draw: invests/leverages• Power: people• Communities: is at the core• Fight: community organizing/policy change• Brutality: violence, disinvestment, perpetual
underclass• Poverty/structural racism: roots of the problems
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Overarching Context
• Evidence/data to support racially disparate outcomes
• History and intentional private and public discrimination and structural racism
• Historical and current high levels of segregation
• Police/law enforcement/community crisis of trust
• State budget crisis
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Chicago Metropolitan AreaSafety/Violence and Equity
• Chicago’s homicide rate in 2016 at 1996 levels during the crack cocaine epidemic
• African Americans continue to be overrepresented among Chicago’s homicide victims, overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system
• Race is consequential in determining whether a police complaint will be sustained
5Crime Lab analysis of CPD Records
Black White Police Misconduct: 2% of all cases result in disciplinary action
Black• 76% of use of force
incidents• Filed 61% of complaints,
only 25% were sustained
White• 8% of use of force
incidents (16% other)• Filed 21% of complaints,
58% were sustained
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Chicago Metropolitan AreaEconomics and Equity• Over the past 50 years, Chicago has
transitioned from industrial to service economy
• Income and wealth inequality among blacks, Latinx, and whites are worse and worsening as compared to the national average
• Chicagoans of color are geographically removed from the city’s job centers and have fewer transit options
7Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, "A Tale of Three Cities: The State of Racial Justice in
Chicago Report," 2017
Black White Wage GapChicago
1960• Typical white family earns
1.6 times more income than the typical black family
2015• Typical white family earns
2.2 times more income than the typical black family
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Median family income is $36,720 for blacks, $47,308 for Latinx, and $81,702 for whites.
Woods’ Key Strategies
• Responsive grantmaking: community organizing and public policy advocacy
• Targeted grantmaking: bail bond reform, police reform, restorative justice, west-side organizing, workers’ center
• Partnership with philanthropy: CWFA, PSPC, TRHT IIFC
• Formal commitment to racial equity
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Hope and Progress• Community-led police accountability
commission/oversight design: Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability
• Region-wide coalition of workers’ centers that cross race, region, occupation: Raise the Floor
• Funder collaborations on workforce, immigrant rights, violence prevention, and criminal justice reform
• Funder learning together and acting together on issues related to racial equity
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Lessons• Fund community organizing/public policy to
address power and long term systems change
• Responsive and proactive grantmakingstrategy
• Find your unique voice, perspective• Be an authentic partner, feel equal despite
assets, be vulnerable• Learn and act/fund, learn more and act/fund,
repeat – avoid analysis paralysis• Begin the journey
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Thank You
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SusanLloydExecutiveDirector
ZilberFamilyFoundation
Equity and Inclusion in Milwaukee Neighborhood Funders Group
May 25, 2017
Overview
• Race, class, and place
• Community development in Milwaukee
9Moving from silos to collaboration
9Building capacity
9Strengthening partnerships
Race in Milwaukee
Source: University of Virginia, Weldon Cooper Center
Poverty in Milwaukee
• Poverty rate, City of Milwaukee: 29% African-Americans: 39.9% Hispanics: 31.8% Non-Hispanic whites: 14.8%
• Milwaukee County: 21.9% Waukesha County: 5.8% Washington County: 5.1% Ozaukee County: 4.3% Wisconsin: 13.2%
Source: American Community Survey, 2014
Racial disparities
0.00%5.00%
10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%30.00%35.00%40.00%45.00%
Household income >$75K
0.00%5.00%
10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%30.00%35.00%40.00%45.00%
Poverty rate
Race and poverty in place
Place-based work, 2006…
Moving from silos to collaboration
Common knowledge • Brophy Report (2011) • Hibbs inventory (2012) • Market Value Analysis (2012) • Housing Resources resident surveys (2013) Continuous communication • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (2010) • Neighborhoods Matter Symposium (2011) • Community Development Alliance (2012) • Whole Neighborhoods…One Milwaukee Symposium (2013) • CDA Symposium with Rob Sampson (2015) • CDA Symposium with Patrick Sharkey (2016)
Building capacity
Building capacity
NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
CDA
Strengthening partnerships
BREW CITY MATCH TURNING THE CORNER
EdEgnatiosProgramOfficer
W.K.KelloggFoundation
Lessons Learned from 10 Years in Detroit
1. Building capacity for social change in
communities of color is the goal of effective
place-based philanthropy;
2. Not all philanthropic investment is effective;
3. New Rule #1: DO NO HARM
4. New Rule #2: Follow rule #1 religiously
5. When you have seen one neighborhood, you
have seen one neighborhood; but …
Lessons Learned from10 Years in Detroit
6. There is a systemic framework that guides neighborhood capacity-building for social change:
• ** Best approach is from NCDI/Frank OmawaleSatterwhite, Ph.D
7. Simple city/complex city: Each has to have certain functions to work and each presents unique challenges to those seeking to build capacity for social change in communities of color:
• ** Work in Chicago and Milwaukee/WKKF work in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek
8. City-wide capacity-building is the adding, restoration and/or better
alignment of those key functions to assist neighborhoods & communities of
color to thrive.
City-WideCommunity Capacity Building
Government Functions
Business Re-Investment &
Growth as Market
Civic Infrastructure
Data Access & Use
Advocacy & Citizen
Planning
Leadership Development
Cross-sector Collaboration
Culture & Skills
Agenda For Social Change –2020 & Beyond
• Learning Communities• Funder Collaboratives
Partnerships For Systems Change
Community Transformation For
Racial Equity
• Early childhood Education• Employment Equity
• Racial Healing and EquityReplication & Scale
4. Sustainability