Center on Community Philanthropy

Dr. Charlotte Lewellen Williams to Retire in August - Clinton School of Public Service Dr. Charlotte Lewellen Williams, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Center on Community Philanthropy, will retire in August.

Deadline Today at 11:59 PM CST!

The Center on Community Philanthropy at the Clinton School of Public Service wants to remind you that the deadline to apply for the 2025 Community Philanthropy Advancing Equity Award is today at 11:59 PM CST! This award celebrates the National Day of Racial Healing.

We encourage nonprofits, grassroots organizations, for-profits, faith-based groups, and individuals dedicated to promoting equity and inclusion in their communities to submit their applications before the deadline.

This award seeks to encourage those who, through committing time and resources to expand diverse leadership within their communities, recognize the struggles specific to marginalized populations - particularly children and youth.

Please share this information with an organization or individual that you believe should apply.

The Center is seeking applicants who are working to address inequalities in their communities and advance progress towards inclusion. These solutions should encourage the development of a pro-equity culture within their communities, while also making incremental, measurable, and visible progress towards racial equity.

The Advancing Equity Award will range from $5,000 - $15,000

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The Center on Community Philanthropy at the Clinton School of Public Service wants to remind you that the deadline to apply for the 2025 Community Philanthropy Advancing Equity Award is tomorrow, Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST! This award celebrates the National Day of Racial Healing.

We encourage nonprofits, grassroots organizations, for-profits, faith-based groups, and individuals dedicated to promoting equity and inclusion in their communities to submit their applications before the deadline.

This award seeks to encourage those who, through committing time and resources to expand diverse leadership within their communities, recognize the struggles specific to marginalized populations - particularly children and youth.

Please share this information with an organization or individual that you believe should apply.

The Center is seeking applicants who are working to address inequalities in their communities and advance progress towards inclusion. These solutions should encourage the development of a pro-equity culture within their communities, while also making incremental, measurable, and visible progress towards racial equity.

The Advancing Equity Award will range from $5,000 - $15,000

5 Days Left!

Applications are now open for the 2025 Community Philanthropy Advancing Equity Award, celebrating the National Day of Racial Healing.
This award celebrates innovative efforts to promote equity and inclusion in our communities, especially for marginalized populations. We’re looking for nonprofits, grassroots organizations, faith-based groups, and individuals who are committed to fostering diverse leadership and addressing inequalities.
Award Range: $5,000 - $15,000 How to Apply:
Submit a one-page letter of interest that highlights your organization’s history and efforts toward racial equity. Include a plan on how you will utilize the Advancing Equity Award.
Deadline: Tuesday, November 26, 2024, by 11:59 PM CST.
For more details and to submit your application, email [email protected] with the subject line “2025 AEA Application”.
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There is still time to apply!

Applications are now open for the 2025 Community Philanthropy Advancing Equity Award, celebrating the National Day of Racial Healing.

This award celebrates innovative efforts to promote equity and inclusion in our communities, especially for marginalized populations. We’re looking for nonprofits, grassroots organizations, faith-based groups, and individuals who are committed to fostering diverse leadership and addressing inequalities.

Award Range: $5,000 - $15,000 How to Apply:
Submit a one-page letter of interest that highlights your organization’s history and efforts toward racial equity. Include a plan on how you will utilize the Advancing Equity Award.
Deadline: Tuesday, November 26, 2024, by 11:59 PM CST.

For more details and to submit your application, email [email protected] with the subject line “2025 AEA Application”.

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Williams Set to Deliver Opening Keynote at Inaugural Festival of Philanthropy - Clinton School of Public Service Dr. Charlotte Williams, Professor and Director of the Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy, will be delivering the opening keynote at the inaugural Festival of Philanthropy on Thursday, November 7, 2024.

Attention Community Organizations, Nonprofits, and Individuals!

The Center on Community Philanthropy at the Clinton School of Public Service is excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 Advancing Equity Award.

This award celebrates innovative efforts to promote equity and inclusion in our communities, especially for marginalized populations. We’re looking for nonprofits, grassroots organizations, faith-based groups, and individuals who are committed to fostering diverse leadership and addressing inequalities.

Award Range: $5,000 - $15,000

How to Apply:

Submit a one-page letter of interest that highlights your organization’s history and efforts toward racial equity. Include a plan on how you will utilize the Advancing Equity Award.

Deadline: Tuesday, November 26, 2024, by 11:59 PM CST.

For more details and to submit your application, email [email protected] with the subject line “2025 AEA Application”.

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Today, we're shining a spotlight on one of our Racial Healing Faculty Scholars at the Center on Community Philanthropy.

We'd like to highlight Dr. Joel E. Anderson, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He held the position of Chancellor from 2003 - 2016.

As Dean and Provost, Dr. Anderson led the university to become a doctoral-level institution with an increase in research grants and contracts from $5 million to $22 million. His academic leadership helped UALR earn the “research intensive” national Carnegie classification. Often using the line “you have to face it to fix it,” Dr. Anderson has led the university to highlight the need for the community and the state to address issues of race.

Dr. Anderson received a Ph.D in political science from the University of Michigan and completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University.

As a part of the Center’s Scholars in Residence Program Dr. Anderson authored an essay examining the creation of the Institute on Race and Ethnicity, a university initiative to take on and eliminate racial and ethnic prejudice and discrimination.

“To solve an ingrained community problem with deep roots, we must bring the whole community along.”

You can read Dr. Anderson’s essay The Establishment of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Institute on Race and Ethnicity: An Anchor Institution takes on a Big One in the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy compendium, “Pathways to Racial Healing in the American South: A Community Philanthropy Strategy.”

Read more here: https://clintonschool.uasys.edu/news/pathways-to-racial-healing-and-equity-in-the-american-south/

Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy Welcomes Back Rev. Alvin Herring, Distinguished Scholar in Racial Healing Practice - Clinton School of Public Service Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy Welcomes Back Rev. Alvin Herring, Distinguished Scholar in Racial Healing Practice

Today, we're shining a spotlight on one of our Racial Healing Faculty Scholars at the Center on Community Philanthropy.

We'd like to highlight john a. powell. He is the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. powell holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion and is a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University where he also held the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. He has won several awards including the 2021 Housing Hero Award, 2021 John W. Gardner Leadership Award, and the Convergence Bridge-Building Leadership Award for 2022.

As a part of the center’s Scholars in Residence Program, john a. powell authored an essay examining the role community philanthropists can play in deepening our understanding of issues of race and racial bias while moving us towards greater social and personal healing.

“Community philanthropy can support catalytic interventions that have the potential for broad social impact.”

You can read professor john powell’s essay How Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization Can Move Us Toward Social and Personal Healing in “Pathways to Racial Healing in the American South: A Community Philanthropy Strategy.”
Read more here: https://clintonschool.uasys.edu/news/pathways-to-racial-healing-and-equity-in-the-american-south

Today, we're shining a spotlight on one of our Racial Healing Faculty Scholars at the Center on Community Philanthropy.

We'd like to highlight Dr. Manuel Pastor, who is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC.

As a part of the Center’s Scholars in Residence Program, Dr. Pastor authored an essay exploring racial healing, social equity and immigrant integration through the lens of community organizing in the American South.

“Community philanthropy needs to be in the lead on the case that the South offers a new and important intersection between racial healing, social equity, and immigrant integration”

You can read Dr. Pastor’s essay Racial Healing Social Equity, Immigrant Integration in the American South: Lessons from Community Organizing for Community Philanthropy in the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy compendium, “Pathways to Racial Healing in the American South: A Community Philanthropy Strategy.”

Today, we're shining a spotlight on one of our Racial Healing Faculty Scholars at the Center on Community Philanthropy.

We'd like to highlight Minnijean Brown Trickey, a teacher, writer, and motivational speaker. Brown-Trickey is one of the nine African American students who collectively resisted the opposition to the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957—an act of great historical importance that has been featured in numerous documentaries, magazines, television specials and other media.
Since this courageous stance for social justice as a young woman, Brown-Trickey has maintained a lifelong commitment to peacemaking, developing youth leadership, diversity education and training, cross-cultural communication, gender and social justice advocacy.
As a part of the Center’s Scholars in Residence Program, Brown- Trickey authored an essay exploring how the understanding and acknowledgment of our past can create new avenues and opportunities for racial healing.

“If they are us and we are them, the service we render as allies, advocates, activists, and community philanthropists can heal us and ultimately heal the world.”

You can read Minnijean Brown- Trickey’s essay Confronting Racism, Past and Present, to Heal Ourselves and Heal the World in the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy compendium, “Pathways to Racial Healing in the American South: A Community Philanthropy Strategy.”
Read more here: https://clintonschool.uasys.edu/news/pathways-to-racial-healing-and-equity-in-the-american-south/