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Elevating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Leading Grantmakers Share Lessons Learned and
Challenges Ahead
April 24, 2018
AGENDA
1. Welcome and Introductions
Kelly James, Novo Foundation
2. Moderator Presentation
Lindsay Hill, Raikes Foundation
3. Presentation by Guest Speakers
Angelique Kedem, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Susan Johnson, Lumina Foundation
4. Discussion and Q&A
5. Next steps
KELLY JAMES, NOVO FOUNDATION
Kelly provides strategy and capacity support to philanthropists, advocates and
state education leaders as the firm’s leading expert in strategic planning. As an
expert in college and career readiness, social and emotional learning, education
advocacy and grantmaking effectiveness, she supports a diverse set of partners
ranging from national and regional foundations to large urban school systems to
a major broadcasting network.
Kelly’s interest in education reform began at an early age. As an undergraduate
at the College of Wooster, Kelly focused on supports for struggling students in
poor and failing schools with an independent study with Cleveland Metropolitan
School District. She continued to explore this passion at University of Chicago
Law School with a thesis on Managing Adequacy: The No Child Left Behind Act
and the Constitutional Right to An Adequate Education.
Kelly’s passion for equal access to education has continued throughout her
career: as a program officer for the Raikes Foundation (developing the strategy
for non-cognitive skills in middle school youth) and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation; as an attorney at Karr Tuttle Campbell; as the founding executive
director of Chicago SCORES; and through a grassroots grantmaking initiative for
the Steans Family Foundation in Chicago.
Grantmakers for Thriving Youth (GTY) is a funders’
forum advancing a comprehensive approach to learning
and development that will enable all young people to
acquire the skills and capacities needed for success in
learning, work, citizenship and life. GTY promotes awareness, facilitates connections,
catalyzes collaborations, and disseminates
knowledge about policies, practices and research
among funders in education, child and youth
development, family well-being, health and other
allied fields.
Identifying
leverage points
across the
ecosystem where
philanthropy can
advance practice,
policy and
research toward
supporting all
youth to thrive.
GTY is building a robust and welcoming community of grantmakers working in coordination across key disciplines to help youth thrive. Our key strategies are:
• Inform and Engage the broader philanthropic community • Connect and Build Capacity among grantmakers investing in thriving youth • Catalyze and Influence grantmaking through priority issue workgroups
Join us at www.thrivingyouth.org!
GTY STEERING COMMITTEE The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Bezos Family Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Einhorn Family Charitable Trust
The Hive at Springpoint
James Walton Fund
John Templeton Foundation
National Public Education Support Fund
NoVo Foundation
Raikes Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Stuart Foundation
Susan Crown Exchange
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
Tauck Family Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
The William And Flora Hewlett Foundation
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
WORKING GROUP
• Created a learning agenda for DEI and SEL that will
support members in building knowledge and
understanding across three domains: our foundations,
our sector and our field.
• Today’s webinar focuses on our sector: Philanthropy
• May GTY meeting will be a deep dive on DEI across
our foundations
• Future activities will address DEI in our field
WEBINAR OBJECTIVE
■ Learn from the DEI journeys of funders including their reflections
and lessons learned, frameworks and tools they found useful,
and actions they took internally at their foundations and with their
grantees to elevate DEI in their work.
LINDSAY HILL, RAIKES FOUNDATION
Lindsay Hill joined the Raikes Foundation as a program officer in
2015. In addition to her national education strategy work, she co-
leads the foundation’s efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion.
Prior to joining the Raikes Foundation, Lindsay spent four years as
the founding executive director of Teach For America –
Washington. She began her career as a fourth-grade teacher in
Brooklyn through Teach For America and later worked as a
program director, supporting new teachers in three of New York
City’s boroughs.
Lindsay has also served as the director of training and support for
the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, and she sits on the board of
directors for the Bureau of Fearless Ideas, a Seattle-based
nonprofit. She holds a joint bachelor’s degree in sociology and
public policy from Pomona College and a master’s degree in
teaching from Pace University.
FROM OPPRESSION TO LIBERATION
Internalized/
Interpersonal
Institutional
Systemic
Paradigm/Narrative
RAIKES FOUNDATION EQUITY JOURNEY
Personal/Internalized
Organization
System
Systematically accesses
perspectives of diverse constituent
groups
Intentional investment
strategies that address individual, institutional and
structural barriers
Grantee commitment to DEI
Grantee capacity building support for
DEI
Evaluation design and tools to support
equity outcomes
Systematic collection and
disaggregation of data
Understands how DEI inequities are
produced and maintained
Participatory program design and
execution
Advances diverse program leadership
Lesson learned: pursuing equity in process and outcomes
ANGELIQUE KEDEM, ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION
Angelique joined the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Race, Ethnic Equity
and Inclusion team as a senior associate in January 2016. This portfolio is responsible for integrating an equity and inclusion focus into
all Casey programs and operations.
Angelique grew up in South Africa and graduated high school in the
year of the country’s first democratic elections. She received her
Master’s degree in Public Administration from the School of
Government at the University of the Western Cape. She has more than
a decade of experience in juvenile justice reform focused on racial,
ethnic and gender disparities, as well as leading the Saint Paul
Promise Neighborhood Initiative as director.
The experience growing up in South Africa’s segregated and unequal
society has deeply influenced her thinking about justice, human rights and equity. She brings to the work a focus on equal partnership
between large public systems and impacted communities of color, and
an emphasis on the critical role of culture in addition to race, in changing outcomes. In February 2010, Angelique was named a
‘Facing Race Ambassador’ by Minnesota’s St. Paul Foundation.
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Our Focus
❖Shared language
❖Structural barriers
❖Targeted strategies
Our Approach to Equity
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Lessons Learned
• Embracing an equity agenda requires both bottom-up and top-down strategies.
• Leadership endorsement is necessary to make equity an institutional priority.
• Tying equity work to the mission will help all individuals shift over time.
• Focusing on the structural and institutional aspects of equity also provides a clear framework for taking efforts to scale.
SUSAN JOHNSON, LUMINA FOUNDATION
Susan D. Johnson is Director of Organizational Development and Philanthropic
Practice where she provides conceptual leadership and strategic direction in
Lumina's efforts to achieve the 60% attainment goal.
Throughout her career in higher education, she has acquired intimate knowledge of
policies and practices affecting student success, student engagement, and
institutional accountability. After joining Lumina in 2008, Susan served as a strategy
officer, director of equity and inclusion, and later as director of impact and research
where she actively sought to engage professionals, scholars, and partners
committed to the promotion of equity and excellence in postsecondary education.
Prior to joining Lumina, Susan held professional positions in student affairs at
Louisiana State University and the University of North Dakota and in institutional
research at Indiana University. Johnson earned her B.S., M.S., and M.Ed. degrees
from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs
at Indiana University.
She is actively involved in the philanthropic and higher education sectors, currently
serving on the boards of Grantmakers for Education (GFE) and Higher Education
Resource Services (HERS), and the executive team of Indiana Blacks in
Philanthropy (IBIP). She is also a co-editor of 'Standing on the Outside Looking In:
Underrepresented Students’ Experiences in Advanced Degree Programs.
GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Questions & Discussion
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