{"id":13562,"date":"2022-03-01T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/racial-equity-coding-project\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:42:20","slug":"racial-equity-coding-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/racial-equity-coding-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Equity Coding Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
GIA is sharing this blog post to as in introduction to the collaborative Racial Equity Coding Project being led by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) with Callahan Consulting for the Arts (CCA) and a cross section of grantmakers nation-wide.<\/p>\n
We believe that what we count counts. GIA is participating in the Racial Equity Coding Project, the culmination of research led by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) with Callahan Consulting for the Arts (CCA), for just this reason.<\/p>\n
This pandemic and the ongoing murders of Black people by the state has made eminently visible a crisis as old as the nation itself \u2013 structural racism. Our national grantmaking field has used this historic moment to increase support to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities<\/a>, as we should. With that said however, the national grantmaking field is already expressing some ambivalence<\/a> about maintaining these changes going forward.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This ambivalence is evidenced through the challenges the larger funding field has faced in confirming the awarding of racial equity funds<\/a>. GIA and DDCF are anxious that these challenges are, in part, exacerbated by the difficulty of collecting information on changes in equitable grantmaking over time<\/a>. This difficulty was illustrated by findings in a joint report released in 2021 by PolicyLink and Bridgespan Group, what does racial equity funding really mean if there is no sector-wide consensus about what grantmaking efforts fit into the category<\/em>? Michael McAfee, president and CEO of PolicyLink, says a consensus is needed to distinguish \u201cbetween really good acts of charity\u201d and \u201cthe liberatory work that is necessary to create\u201d a just and fair society.<\/p>\n