Assessment Diagrams

Beginning an internal conversation about race can be a challenging, though rewarding, undertaking. Many of us recognize that racial disparities continue to affect our country, our grantees and our own institutions. And for people with multiple identities, including LGBTQ people of color, the compounding challenges are enormous. So what concrete steps can foundations take to understand this complex dilemma? And what specific questions should we ask to inform our grantmaking strategies, our internal operations and our grantees? The following diagrams provide a practical, step-by-step approach for handling these conversations—at any point in the grantmaking process.

	Comparing Frameworks on Race Useful for sparking a conversation about race by first examining the dialectic tensions that exist about resolving racial inequities
	The Elements of Structural Racism Theory Useful for understanding how a broad grantmaking strategy or a specific grantee fits within a broader framework of structural racism
	Case Study on Structural Racism & LGBTQ Issues Useful for helping a foundation understand how structural racism plays out among LGBTQ communities

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