The Economy and Racial Equity: Strategies to Increase Recovery for All

SCG Collaboratives

Presented in Partnership with the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity

Foundations are keenly aware of the economy’s uneven impact on Californians, with effects divided along lines of gender, race and geography.

Gaps in unemployment, income and assets that existed before the crisis persist, and in many cases are being widened with the uneven economic recovery.

While it is important to have universal goals around economic recovery, research increasingly indicates policy responses that are focused on the needs of the hardest-hit communities may achieve better results for the broader community. Known as “targeted universalism,” this policy strategy also makes more efficient use of public investments.

Presented by Southern California Grantmakers and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, this program explores how grantmakers can use targeted universalism to reach communities most impacted by the economic crisis.

Featuring john a. powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, and Paulina Gonzalez, executive director of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, the program addresses:

• How funders can assist in ensuring those most impacted by the crisis receive their share of recovery funding;
  
  
• How the economy has impacted local communities of color and the ground strategies employed to address the economic crisis many are facing; 
  
  
• What targeted universalism means in the push for a full recovery and beyond for historically marginalized communities; and
  
  
• What opportunities and challenges exist for structural reform that can improve outcomes for all.
  

Presenters:

john a. powell
Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University
Professor and Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University and Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, john a. powell is an internationally recognized authority on civil rights, civil liberties and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and law. He served previously as national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, founder and director of the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota, and co-founder of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. He has taught law at Harvard and Columbia University. He is currently Board Chair for the Tides Foundation and serves on the Boards of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity and the Center for Social Inclusion, among others.

Paulina Gonzalez
Executive Director, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
Paulina Gonzalez is executive director of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE), a community-based organization in South Los Angeles, which advocates for public and corporate policy change that provides concrete economic benefits to working-class people. Prior to her work with SAJE, Gonzalez was a founding Board member of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice, where she worked to support housing rights for working-class families in the neighborhoods surrounding USC. Her work in the social justice field has included organizing farm and hotel workers in California, spearheading community support efforts for workers detained in immigration raids and organizing public actions in support of immigration reform with a path to citizenship for the undocumented. 

Lori Villarosa
Executive Director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
Lori Villarosa is the executive director and founder of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE). Villarosa frequently serves as an advisor and speaker on issues related to racial justice, intergroup relations and philanthropy. She has worked with a broad range of grantmaking institutions including national, international, community, corporate, family and progressive membership foundations. Prior to launching PRE in 2003, Villarosa was a program officer with the C. S. Mott Foundation, where she developed and managed the Foundation's U.S. Race Relations grantmaking portfolio, addressing institutional racism and building appreciation of racial and ethnic diversity. She currently sits on the Boards of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the Paul J. Aicher Foundation and the Edward J. Hazen Foundation.


This program is presented in partnership with:

 

The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is a multi-year project intended to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism. Based in Washington, DC, PRE engages in capacity building, education and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers at the local, regional and national levels. PRE is a project of the Tides Center. 

This event is free.

Who May Attend:  Current SCG members and other grantmakers eligible for SCG membership. Click here for eligibility requirements.