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How are Racial Equality and Healthcare Interrelated?

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• Shawn Dove and Dr. Phyllis Hubbard discuss the systemic racial discrimination that people of color face in the healthcare system and how philanthropy is working to combat this problem. 

• How can philanthropy work to address systemic racism? How is philanthropy reinforcing racist systems? 

• Learn about a health funder prioritizing women of color. 


The learnings that came out of that retreat nearly a decade ago have been given new life with the release of a report by National Public Radio, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Titled Discrimination in America: Experiences and Views of African Americans, the report addresses the various types of individual and systemic discrimination that black Americans experience in a variety of arenas, including employment, buying a home, interactions with law enforcement, civic engagement, and access to health care.

African Americans reported frequent and consistent encounters with race-based discrimination — a finding that spans gender, education, political affiliation, geography, and socioeconomic status.

Among its most noteworthy discoveries, the report revealed that roughly a third of black Americans have felt they were discriminated against when seeking medical care from a doctor or health clinic. Equally disturbing is the finding that 22 percent of black respondents admitted to not seeking out medical care due to their past experiences with medical professionals.

This is one of the several urgent reasons why the Campaign for Black Male Achievement created CBMA Health and Healing Strategies — an innovative and timely effort to empower Black Male Achievement leaders with the information, tools, and resources needed to monitor and maintain their personal health, healing, and wellness. Launched in 2016, the initiative aims to combat the racial health gap by promoting healthy behaviors and strengthening the wellness of leaders and caregivers, so that they, in turn, can create healthier environments for the young people of color they serve.

Read the full article on racial equality and healthcare by Shawn Dove and Dr. Phyllis Hubbard at Philanthropy News Digest.

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Learning and benchmarking are key steps towards becoming an impact giver. If you are interested in giving with impact on Race and Ethnicity take a look at these selections from Giving Compass.

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    How Philanthropic Families Can Take Part in Inclusive Investing

    Entrepreneurs build businesses, but they also help build communities—by creating jobs, delivering needed services, paying taxes, and more. Providing equitable access to the capital such entrepreneurs need to build their businesses is essential to creating a just society and to realizing our full economic potential as a nation. Unfortunately, a growing body of research shows that deeply embedded, systematic biases currently restrict access to capital for businesses led by women and people of color. Philanthropic families can play a crucial role in helping to correct this market failure—and in building an economy that works for all through what the Arabella Advisors team, in a recent report, describes as “inclusive investing.” There are several strategies that philanthropists and social impact investors can implement to increase access to investment capital for women and people of color and to advance systemic changes to the structural barriers and biases they face in the capital markets. To get started today, consider taking these four simple steps: Talk to your wealth advisors and insist that part of your portfolio is invested with women and people of color portfolio managers, building toward a desired long-term goal (e.g. 30% of your portfolio managed by women by 2024) Work with your wealth manager to ensure some of your investments are directed to companies or funds like Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) working in communities you care about.  Join a learning circle of other donors and investors who are trying to close equity and opportunity gaps. Use philanthropic capital – money already committed to a donor-advised fund or foundation – to take risks, offer concessionary, catalytic capital, and explore innovative solutions in high impact-sectors to permit future scaling of problem-solving businesses. Read the full article about inclusive investing by Kate McAdams and Cyrus Kharas at the National Center for Family Philanthropy. 


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