Race and Ethnicity

Repa Mekha has more than 30 years of experience in community building and systems change work. Currently, he is the President & CEO of Nexus Community Partners. In this episode, Chanda…

Back in 2019, The Learning Accelerator (TLA) partnered with six other remote organizations based in education to form the Remote DEI Collective (RDC), a community of practice focused on the intersections of…

Tucked next to the 105 Freeway, just east of the Los Angeles International Airport, is the Lennox Community Garden. Once an agricultural hamlet, Lennox is now a densely built neighborhood cornered by…

As program officers at the Ford Foundation who helped commission CEP’s two-part study, Foundations Respond to Crisis, we’re heartened to see that many funders plan to maintain the more flexible practices…

Diverse representative leadership in the United States is taking on deeper meaning in 2022 – especially for the nation’s 22.9 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who call the country home. Anti-Asian…

Severe heat kills more people in the United States than any other hazardous weather-related event. As climate change accelerates, the sweltering heat will become much more extreme, and the associated mortality rate will…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from Pivotal Ventures and McKinsey & Company highlights the previous successes and failures of tech companies attempting to diversify their workforce, and how philanthropy and CSR…

This past spring, we were in Chinatown San Francisco visiting low-income Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth who live in 150 square foot tenements with their families, sharing bathrooms and…

I took a leap of faith when I decided to join the first cohort of Camelback Ventures’ Capital Collaborative program back in 2019. I wasn’t sure what to expect from…

Not so long ago, the word “race” was something that many people shied away from — a four-letter word not to be spoken in polite company. Similarly, “racial equity” and…

In Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Newark, and Oakland, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Equity-First Vaccination Initiative (EVI) supports community-based organizations working to increase vaccine confidence and uptake in communities of color. In this blog post,…

Minority communities disproportionately feel the negative effects of gentrification, a new study finds. Residents of these communities have fewer options of neighborhoods they can move to compared to their white…