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\u201cSome of the changes that we instituted during the pandemic were things that we were actually thinking about before,\u201d said Rashad Cobb, community engagement program officer at the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation. He summarized, \u201cThese weren\u2019t necessarily new ideas that we had never thought (of) before, but maybe the pace at which we would\u2019ve implemented these ideas was sped up by the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think that creativity can equal resilience,\u201d Tom Linfield, vice president for community impact at Madison Community Foundation Development (MCF) said. \u201cI think a lot of the nonprofits stepped out of their comfort zone and succeeded, and that doesn\u2019t always happen. So I think some of them were bold, and creative and that worked for them. And so I hope that will build their capacity moving forward.\u201d MCF Development Director, Angela Davis also said she saw an increase in Black families engaged in the formal, usually-White-dominated philanthropy space \u2013 a trend she\u2019s noticed the past few years but which accelerated in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhilanthropy (in) the Black community has always been there, which we all know. It just may not have been called \u2018philanthropy,\u2019 but it\u2019s always been there. And now it\u2019s becoming more mainstream for Black folks to come together \u2026 to give back,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never worked with so many Black folks before in my career. And that says a lot that they want to give back, particularly with education. That they want to make sure that next generation has the support to get that education.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese things have been gradual, but I think it\u2019s part of the momentum that has been growing over the course of the last decade,\u201d Linfield said. <\/p>\n
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Submitted by Nadia Elokdah on April 4, 2022 \u201cSome of the changes that we instituted during the pandemic were things that we were actually thinking about before,\u201d said Rashad Cobb, community engagement program officer at the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation. He summarized, \u201cThese weren\u2019t necessarily new ideas that we had never thought (of) before, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-for-artists"],"yoast_head":"\n
What We\u2019re Reading: \u201cA Cultural Shift.\u201d Nonprofits See Lasting Changes Coming Out of the Pandemic. - United Arts Agency | UAA<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n