Articles

We recommend starting here:​

• Study finds strong correlations between segregation and life outcome in the Bay Area – KTVU
• The Curb-Cut Effect – Angela Glover Blackwell

Highly recommended readings and resources:

• Building capacity for DEI: Lessons learned from organizational effectiveness grants – Hewlett Foundation
• The Curb-Cut Effect Commentary – Vu Le
• Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding – SSIR
• What’s the Difference Between Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity? – General Assembly
• Will nonprofits finally move forward on equity in the workplace? – The Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Building Opportunities for Inclusive Leadership – SSIR
• What Does It Look Like to Support Women of Color to Lead? – Nonprofit Quarterly
• If Your Board Looked Like Your Community – Josephine Ramirez
• The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards – SSIR
• 19 Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations Join Together to Advance Access for People with Disabilities – Respectability
• How to Make Holiday Celebrations More Inclusive – SHRM

Additional readings and resources:

• Have nonprofit and philanthropy become the “white moderate” that Dr. King warned us about? – Nonprofit AF
• Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition – Alnoor Ladha and Marin Kirk
• Transformational Capacity Building – April Nishimura, Roshni Sampath, Vu Le, Anbar Mahar Sheikh & Ananda Valenzuela

Publications

Recommended readings:

• Antiracist Book Recommendations – Time
• Killing the Black Body – Dorothy Roberts
• Fatal Invention – Dorothy Roberts
• Racecraft – Barbara and Karen Fields
• Medical Apartheid – Harriet A. Washington
• The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
• Sister Citizen – Melissa Harris-Perry
• The Pushout – Monique W. Morris
• How to be an Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
• Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
• White Fragility – Dr. Robin Diangelo
• So you want to talk about race – Ljeoma Oluo
• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
• We Do This ‘Til We Free Us – Mariame Kaba
• We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest & Possibility – Marc Lamont Hill
• “Who We Be” by Jeff Chang - Jeff Chang
• How to Talk to Your Boss About Race – By Y-Vonne Hutchinson