Equity Resources
Over the past four years, the Maddox Fund has been talking about racial equity, justice and liberation. While we are early in our journey, we are convinced that we can’t walk alone; we need partners so we can learn and change together. This page includes resources that we have found useful and that have guided us as we think critically about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Liberation.
As an organization, we have made a commitment to racial equity. Our learning continues and we invite you to explore these resources and ask that you give us your feedback. If you have other resources, please share them with us so we can learn from one another.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice Resources
- Whiteness at Work
- Is Your Board Ready to Advance Equity? – article by Rick Moyers on National Comittee for Responsive Philanthropy
- 8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits – article by Helen Kim Ho
- Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
- 7 Things You Can Do to Improve the Sad, Pathetic State of Nonprofit Board Diversity – article by Vu Le
- The Social Justice Sector has a Problem with Internalized Racism — Itzbeth Menijvar
White Journey to Anti-Racism
- Whiteness at Work
- Anti-Racism for White People – Social Venture Partners Los Angeles
- Seeing White – 14-part podcast with Scene on Radio, Duke University
- From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Life-long Journey – article by Tema Okun
- Me and My White Supremacy – 28-day workbook by Layla F Saad
- White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture – Heather Laine Talley
- “White Fragility” – article by Robin DiAngelo
- White Fragility – video by Robin DiAngelo
- Being Nice is Not Going To End Racism – video by Robin DiAngelo
- YWCA 21-day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack– article by Peggy McIntosh
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion – video by Peggy McIntosh
- Can we talk about Whitness – podcast from NPR Codeswitch
- On Empathy – video by Brenee Brown
- The Power of Vulnerability – video by Brenee Brown
- Lecture on the History of Racist Ideas in America – video by Ibram X. Kendi
- Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture – guide by Equity in the Center
- A Letter to White Urbanites – Alicia John-Baptiste, SPUR
Implicit Bias
- Harvard Implicit Bias Test
- Allegories of Race and Racism – video by Dr. Camara Jo
- Immaculate Perception – video by Jerry Kang
Internalized Racism
- What is Internalized Racism? – article by Donna K. Bivens
- 18 Years of Wishing I was White: Internalized Racism in the Asian-American Community – article by Jillian Peihua
Interpersonal Racism
- The 1619 Project – The N.Y. Times
- Seeing White – Podcast Series from Scene on Radio
- YWCA 21-Day Racial Justice and Social Equity Challenge
- History Repeating: Affordable Housing, Public Transit, A mayoral Runoff, Racially Separated Schools, Welcome to Nashville in – in 1971 – article by Ansley T. Erickson
- How Structural Racism Works – lecture by Dr. Tricia Rose
- On the History of Racist Ideas in America – lecture by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped from the Beginning – book by Ibram X. Kendi
- Revisionist History – podcast by Malcolm Gladwell
- 20 ways majority-white nonprofits can build authentic partnerships with organizations led by communities of color – article by Vu Le
- The Danger of a Single Story – lecture by Chimamanda Agozi Adichie
- Why LGBT Initialism Keeps Growing – article by Bill Daley
- LGBTQ 101 – video
- LGBTQIA Resource Center Glossary – UC Davis
- The Gender Unicorn – Trans Student Educational Resources
- LGBTQ People of Color Suffer Double Discrimination – Article by Samantha Allen
- A Few Pronoun Best Practices – Safe Zone Project
- Collection of LGBTQIA Ted Talks
- A Queer Vision of Love and Marriage – lecture by Tiq & Kim Katrin Milan
- We Must be in It For the Long Haul:
- Racial Equity in Philanthropy – Bridgespan
- Putting Racism on the Table – Washington Regional Area Grantmakers
- Six Steps Foundations can Take to Advance Racial Equity
- Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: The Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity
- Change Philanthropy Resource Hub
- To Advance Racial Justice, Philanthropists Will Need to Be Courageous – Tinyspark Podcast
- National Center for Responsive Philanthropy
- RespectAbility in Philanthropy
- Diversity and Inclusion in the Foundation Board Room
- Phil Buchanan and Rob Reich: Is Giving by the Wealthy a Good Thing?
- SSIR: Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Foundation Models
- Lumina Foundation’s Equity Imperative
- Bush Foundation: Building An Inclusive Culture
- Collins Family Foundation
- Kellogg Foundation: Business Case for Racial Equity
- NewSchools Venture Fund
- Weingart Foundation: A Full Commitment to Equity
- Ford Foundation
Workbooks and Resources
- Awake, to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
- Power Moves: Your Essential Philanthropy Assessment for Equity and Justice
- Foundation Facilitate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices and the Role of Foundations – Center for Effective Philanthropy
- Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens, Grantcraft – GrantCraft
- Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens, Philanthropic Racial Equity – Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
- RespectAbility: Inclusive Philanthropy – respect Ability
- Re-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process – Jerome Foundation
- Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – D5 Coalition
- State of the Work, Stories from the Movement to Advance DEI – D5 Coalition
- Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
Advocacy & Systems Change
Mission-aligned Investments
- Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations – Mission Investors Exchange
- Impact Investing Handbook: An Implementation Guide for Practitioners – Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
- Aligning Mission with Investments: Why Are You Stuck? – Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Fiduciary Guide to Investing with Diverse Asset Managers and Firms – Diverse Asset Managers Initiative
Case Studies
- Values Proposition: How and Why We Transformed Our Investment Model to Align Our Capital With Our Mission – Nathan Cummins Foundation
- Redesigning the Wallace Global Fund Endowment
- Phillips Foundation Impact Investing
- Bush Foundation Impact Investment Statement
- AJL Foundation
Other Resources
for education
- The Promise – Podcast from Nashville Public Radio
- “How, After 60 Years, Brown v. Board of Education Succeeded – and Didn’t” – article by Valerie Strauss
- Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment – podcast by Malcolm Gladwell
- Social Justice Lesson Plans – Teaching Tolerance
- Brown v. Board at 65: A Promise Unfulfilled – video by House Committee on Education & Labor
- By Design – video from NPEF
Websites to Explore
for youth
- History Repeating: Affordable Housing, Public Transit, A mayoral Runoff, Racially Separated Schools, Welcome to Nashville in 1971 – article by Ansley T. Erickson
- Making the Unequal Metropolis – book by Ansley T. Erickson
Websites to Explore
for natural environment
- Seizing Opportunities to Diversify Conservation – paper by Gould, Phukan, Medoza, Ardoin & Panikaar
- Hunting While Black and Questioning Our Own Cultural Competency with Dr. Carolyn Finney – The Hunting Collective Podcast
- Birding While Black
- Relevancy Roadmap – Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
- Black Faces, White Spaces – video by Carolyn Finney
- Hunting While Black – article by Jonathan Hall
- Diversity in Environmental Organizations – article by Dorceta E. Taylor
- Guns, Genocide, and the Stolen Ground You “Own” – Article by Jonathan Hall
