Race and Ethnicity

It is with immense pride and gratitude that we announce the launch of the Flower Crown Project—a labor of love, justice, and centering Black trans joy from Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund…

In 2025, Borealis Philanthropy’s Spark Justice Fund (SJF) will launch the BlackPrint Fellowship—a bold, unapologetic investment in supporting Black leadership in philanthropy by directly impacted Black leaders. This isn’t your…

Nonprofits often pride themselves on being more socially conscious than for-profit corporations. There is at least one area, however, in which the nonprofit sector is not doing much better than…

According to the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s recent report on grantee experiences with intermediary funders, 33 percent of intermediary grantees report receiving multiyear funding, compared to 58 percent of grantees of…

The authors of a 2018 study estimate that “[p]olice kill more than 300 [B]lack Americans — at least a quarter of them unarmed — each year in the USA.” Another paper estimates…

The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted historically marginalized and minoritized communities, shedding light on the urgent need for collective action towards embedding equity in crisis preparedness and response systems. Designed to…

There are more than 65 million Hispanic and Latino people living in the U.S. – the second-largest racial or ethnic minority population in the country. Yet when it comes to…

The U.S. has made little progress in advancing health care equity over the past two decades, and racial and ethnic inequities remain a fundamental flaw of the nation’s health care…

Diseases affecting the digestive system, including the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and others, are significant causes of death worldwide. Mayo Clinic and North Dakota State University…

It was created with the best intentions: a government policy asking researchers to collect racial data to help address health disparities. But it may have had an unintended opposite effect,…

Prolific health disparities have driven hospices to implement various strategies to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among underserved patient populations. Some providers say the needle has much farther to go…

Earlier this year, when it was clear that the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund would meet its $500 million lending goal, we took a look behind the numbers to determine what…