{"id":14675,"date":"2022-04-11T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/what-were-reading-how-we-can-advance-support-for-racial-equity-and-racial-justice-funding-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:33:41","slug":"what-were-reading-how-we-can-advance-support-for-racial-equity-and-racial-justice-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/what-were-reading-how-we-can-advance-support-for-racial-equity-and-racial-justice-funding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Reading: How We Can Advance Support for Racial Equity and Racial Justice Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cGrants management professionals are strategically positioned to influence a funder\u2019s racial equity and racial justice funding. But in three decades of working in and with foundations, I have consistently seen a pattern where people serving in these roles are excluded from these conversations as a matter of institutional habit,\u201d explains Lori Villarosa, Founder and Executive Director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Justice.<\/a><\/p>\n Villarosa defines racial equity and racial justice before offering, \u201cthree ways in which grants management professionals can reimagine the core functions of their roles to better support racial justice funding.\u201d These include: identifying the why in data management, easing the burden on grant applicants, and reexamining the concept of risk. <\/p>\n