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Native American Funding
Inside Philanthropy Sites Six Funders (including 2 Minnesota Funders) As Stand Outs in Native American Funding
Inside Philanthropy reports Native Americans represent 2.9% of the U.S. population and receive just 0.4% of philanthropic support. But, according to the Funding Map at Investing in Native Communities, that’s improving.
The map is a data visualization application developed by Candid in partnership with Native Americans in Philanthropy. It launched three years ago and averages 5K visits per week.
According to the Funding Map, six foundations stand out:
- Ford Foundation provides funding for a wide range of organizations that support Native Americans, including specific support to Indigenous land protection
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation has made grants to several Native-focused orgs, including Native Women Lead, which works to improve pay equity for Native women
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a range of Native American causes that tackle issues like food and housing insecurity, unemployment, and poor healthcare, and- in one case- to restore Lakota language and traditions
- Northwest Area Foundation directs 40% of its annual grant dollars to supporting Native-led organizations, with funding focused on efforts that produce good jobs, thriving businesses, and restructured systems to strengthen Native communities
- NoVo Foundation has provided $110 million to 362 organizations since 2016 (the most current data is from 2019). The Foundation has been thinking about/planning new funding priorities, though
- Bush Foundation started issuing Native Nations Investment Reports in 2017 that review its investments in the 23 Native nations in MN, ND, and SD. Among its support: improving the juvenile justice system in Ramsey Co.; working to restore the buffalo population on an SD reservation; and addressing the racial wealth gap across the region. Also a funder for the Funding Map.
7 Mistakes New Philanthropic Foundations Make
Kris Putnam-Walkerly writes in her “Confident Giving” Newsletter: “Drawing from my conversations with thousands of foundation leaders, spanning 23 years, here are seven prevalent missteps. By paying attention to these mistakes, you can avoid them and ensure your foundation’s success.”
- Being stuck in overwhelm
- Restricting your potential through a mindset of scarcity
- Letting it go to your head
- Assuming you have all the answers
- Operating without a strategy
- Failing to hold yourself accountable
- Not seeking help.
Workshop: Introduce Your Organization to Funders
May 14, 2024 1:30-2:30 PM LIVE VIRTUAL
Cost: $45 | Register Below
For more information, contact Mary Anne ([email protected])
Many foundations, especially family foundations, do not have a formal application process and can seem out of reach. Join us to learn how to introduce your organization to new funders in a way that captures their attention.
Topics
- Is the funder a fit for your organization?
- When should you send an Letter of Introduction (LOI), vs. a full application, call, or some other outreach method.
- How to draft an LOI, best practices, helpful tips, things to avoid, tools to help with the writing.
- Next steps…you’ve submitted your LOI, so now what? Immediate and longer-term next steps to connect with program officers and decision-makers.
- Q&A
For: New fundraisers and those looking to freshen their LOIs.
Presenters:
Kirsten Gulbro
Access Philanthropy Senior Grant Writer.
Kirsten has 20 years of fundraising experience, raising more than $100 million for Minnesota’s nonprofit community. Her expertise includes grant writing, corporate sponsorships, major gifts, special events, nonprofit communications, and prospect research.
Ann Madsen
Access Philanthropy Senior Grant Writer
Ann has worked in both international and domestic contexts and has experience developing proposals in humanitarian aid, international development, health, and human services.
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Edgar Villanueva, CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital had a problem with the request for pluralism, published in an op-ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy in April. The authors* asked for readers to stop expecting foundations and philanthropists to pledge allegiance to narrow sets of prescribed views.
Villanueva’s letter to the editor, titled “Debunking the Myth of Philanthropic Pluralism” (April 26, 2023), begins by saying “the idea that philanthropy’s biggest challenge is divisiveness reflects a level of fragility that impedes social-justice work.” He has plenty more to say about that. Link to the letter.
*Op-ed authors:
- Kathleen Enright, Council on Foundation President
- Sam Singh Gill, Doris Duke Foundation President
- Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President
- Brian Hooks, Stand Together Chairman
- Elise Westhoff, Philanthropy Roundtable President.
Diversity in Philanthropy: Are We Making Any Progress? 2022 DAPP Insights
By Laura Wilson
This spring, CHANGE Philanthropy released the 2022 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) report, the third iteration of a wide-reaching survey originating in 2018. The DAPP report provides a much-needed snapshot into the diversity of grantmaking organizations in the United States. In February, I attended a webinar to get the author’s perspectives on the findings. Read the full report here.
An overview of the survey results is included beneath the graphic. My takeaways? The philanthropy sector has made some positive strides in diversity over the past four years to be certain. Women are slowly inching their way to men-dominated supervisory and board roles. Disability and Indigenous representation are also on the rise.
However, there are still holes, primarily centering around a workplace’s perceived safety to marginalized communities (specifically those with disabilities, uncertain immigration status, and LGBTQ+ identifiers). If the coordinators of this survey are able to reach more foundations that fill out the statistical weaknesses, this report will become even more valuable as a diversity snapshot tool.
Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Survey Results |
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77 Foundations (38% decrease from 2020 Survey) |
2,199 Individuals (8% decrease from 2020 Survey) |
43% Response Rate (9% decrease from 2020 Survey) |
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LGBTQ |
Disclosure of Disabilities |
People of Color |
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Only half of LGBTQ people working in philanthropy are out at their workplace |
More than 9 in 10 of people with a disability in philanthropy are not out about their disability to all or most of their co-workers |
43.2% people of color
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This year’s survey reached 77 organizations (with 48 returning from the previous 2020 DAPP) with a 43% response rate—a decrease from the 2020 survey which reached 124 organizations with a 54% response rate. Nevertheless, this year’s DAPP reveals important information on the state of diverse philanthropy, particularly concerning people with disabilities and non-heterosexual sexual orientations.
The first major shift noted by the report’s authors was a significant increase in people identifying with a disability. Those responses “nearly doubled over 2020 findings, from 12.6% (n=302) in 2020 to 34.2% (n=509) in 2022” with the majority of that increase attributable to an increase in mental health disabilities.
However, with that increase, disclosure of disabilities in the workplace still remained quite low: more than two thirds. All other identities surveyed saw some manner of increase in disclosure over the cumulative six years of the DAPP survey.
The authors noted a rise in the use of “decline to state” and “multiple” identities” in both the disabilities section as well as the sexual orientation section indicating increasing complexity and cross-sections among identities.
Other shifts include a drastic increase in the percentage of Indigenous individuals serving as board members (1.3% in 2020 to 6.6% in 2022). There was also an increase in women in supervisory staff roles—a 10% increase from 2020.
Notable categories that remained steady include the number of LGBTQ+ identifying people who remained “in the closet” at work and the selection of “decline to state” category when referring to immigration status (remaining near 12%).
In terms of type of foundations, across most sectors, public funders lead the way with the most diversity in all roles with the best POC, genderqueer, and disabled representation. Corporate funders reach the top with the best representation of people born outside the US. Left behind in second and third are community and private organizations.
During the webinar, the authors acknowledged there are clear data weaknesses when it comes to organizations in the south and corporate organizations (out of 77 total foundations, five were based in the south and three were corporate) that may skew the gains or losses of both categories. In their survey distribution for the 2024 DAPP, they hope to reach more organizations that fit these descriptors to get a more accurate picture of geographic and organization type trends.
Graphics from the report
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