SystemsChangesTowardsEquityandInclusionintheMidwest:VisionandPracticalGrantmakingSteps

Thursday,May25,2017

KevinRyanProgramDirector

NewYorkFoundation

GraceHouPresident

WoodsFundChicago

NFGBuilding safe, inclusive, and more equitable communities

May 25, 2017

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Overview

• Woods Fund Chicago• Context for the Region• Woods Fund’s Key Strategies• Progress• Practical Grantmaking Lessons

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Woods Fund Chicago funds organizations that draw on the power of communities to fight the brutality of poverty and structural racism.

• Funds: grantmaking organization• Draw: invests/leverages• Power: people• Communities: is at the core• Fight: community organizing/policy change• Brutality: violence, disinvestment, perpetual

underclass• Poverty/structural racism: roots of the problems

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Overarching Context

• Evidence/data to support racially disparate outcomes

• History and intentional private and public discrimination and structural racism

• Historical and current high levels of segregation

• Police/law enforcement/community crisis of trust

• State budget crisis

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Chicago Metropolitan AreaSafety/Violence and Equity

• Chicago’s homicide rate in 2016 at 1996 levels during the crack cocaine epidemic

• African Americans continue to be overrepresented among Chicago’s homicide victims, overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system

• Race is consequential in determining whether a police complaint will be sustained

5Crime Lab analysis of CPD Records

Black White Police Misconduct: 2% of all cases result in disciplinary action

Black• 76% of use of force

incidents• Filed 61% of complaints,

only 25% were sustained

White• 8% of use of force

incidents (16% other)• Filed 21% of complaints,

58% were sustained

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Chicago Metropolitan AreaEconomics and Equity• Over the past 50 years, Chicago has

transitioned from industrial to service economy

• Income and wealth inequality among blacks, Latinx, and whites are worse and worsening as compared to the national average

• Chicagoans of color are geographically removed from the city’s job centers and have fewer transit options

7Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, "A Tale of Three Cities: The State of Racial Justice in

Chicago Report," 2017

Black White Wage GapChicago

1960• Typical white family earns

1.6 times more income than the typical black family

2015• Typical white family earns

2.2 times more income than the typical black family

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Median family income is $36,720 for blacks, $47,308 for Latinx, and $81,702 for whites.

Woods’ Key Strategies

• Responsive grantmaking: community organizing and public policy advocacy

• Targeted grantmaking: bail bond reform, police reform, restorative justice, west-side organizing, workers’ center

• Partnership with philanthropy: CWFA, PSPC, TRHT IIFC

• Formal commitment to racial equity

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Hope and Progress• Community-led police accountability

commission/oversight design: Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability

• Region-wide coalition of workers’ centers that cross race, region, occupation: Raise the Floor

• Funder collaborations on workforce, immigrant rights, violence prevention, and criminal justice reform

• Funder learning together and acting together on issues related to racial equity

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Lessons• Fund community organizing/public policy to

address power and long term systems change

• Responsive and proactive grantmakingstrategy

• Find your unique voice, perspective• Be an authentic partner, feel equal despite

assets, be vulnerable• Learn and act/fund, learn more and act/fund,

repeat – avoid analysis paralysis• Begin the journey

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Thank You

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SusanLloydExecutiveDirector

ZilberFamilyFoundation

Equity and Inclusion in Milwaukee Neighborhood Funders Group

May 25, 2017

Overview

• Race, class, and place

• Community development in Milwaukee

9Moving from silos to collaboration

9Building capacity

9Strengthening partnerships

Race in Milwaukee

Source: University of Virginia, Weldon Cooper Center

Poverty in Milwaukee

• Poverty rate, City of Milwaukee: 29% African-Americans: 39.9% Hispanics: 31.8% Non-Hispanic whites: 14.8%

• Milwaukee County: 21.9% Waukesha County: 5.8% Washington County: 5.1% Ozaukee County: 4.3% Wisconsin: 13.2%

Source: American Community Survey, 2014

Racial disparities

0.00%5.00%

10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%30.00%35.00%40.00%45.00%

Household income >$75K

0.00%5.00%

10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%30.00%35.00%40.00%45.00%

Poverty rate

Race and poverty in place

Place-based work, 2006…

Moving from silos to collaboration

Common knowledge • Brophy Report (2011) • Hibbs inventory (2012) • Market Value Analysis (2012) • Housing Resources resident surveys (2013) Continuous communication • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (2010) • Neighborhoods Matter Symposium (2011) • Community Development Alliance (2012) • Whole Neighborhoods…One Milwaukee Symposium (2013) • CDA Symposium with Rob Sampson (2015) • CDA Symposium with Patrick Sharkey (2016)

Building capacity

Building capacity

NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

CDA

Strengthening partnerships

BREW CITY MATCH TURNING THE CORNER

EdEgnatiosProgramOfficer

W.K.KelloggFoundation

Lessons Learned from 10 Years in Detroit

1. Building capacity for social change in

communities of color is the goal of effective

place-based philanthropy;

2. Not all philanthropic investment is effective;

3. New Rule #1: DO NO HARM

4. New Rule #2: Follow rule #1 religiously

5. When you have seen one neighborhood, you

have seen one neighborhood; but …

Lessons Learned from10 Years in Detroit

6. There is a systemic framework that guides neighborhood capacity-building for social change:

• ** Best approach is from NCDI/Frank OmawaleSatterwhite, Ph.D

7. Simple city/complex city: Each has to have certain functions to work and each presents unique challenges to those seeking to build capacity for social change in communities of color:

• ** Work in Chicago and Milwaukee/WKKF work in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek

8. City-wide capacity-building is the adding, restoration and/or better

alignment of those key functions to assist neighborhoods & communities of

color to thrive.

City-WideCommunity Capacity Building

Government Functions

Business Re-Investment &

Growth as Market

Civic Infrastructure

Data Access & Use

Advocacy & Citizen

Planning

Leadership Development

Cross-sector Collaboration

Culture & Skills

Agenda For Social Change –2020 & Beyond

• Learning Communities• Funder Collaboratives

Partnerships For Systems Change

Community Transformation For

Racial Equity

• Early childhood Education• Employment Equity

• Racial Healing and EquityReplication & Scale

4. Sustainability