SCG Collaborative
While many foundations have
promoted the importance of diversity for decades, fewer foundations have
integrated diversity
components in not only their grantmaking, but within their
organizations—such as in governance, programs, human resources, grants
management and outsourcing/vendor contracts.
In 2009 The
California
Endowment released a resource for the field entitled Foundation Diversity: Policies & Practices Toolkit,
a compilation of local and national foundation diversity policies and
practices. Foundations highlighted in the toolkit have made a commitment
to
diversity and inclusiveness with the belief that it greatly enhances organizational
performance.
Southern
California Grantmakers has partnered with Northern
California Grantmakers and San Diego Grantmakers
to host this webinar to introduce the
toolkit to the philanthropic community in California and to share ways
that the
toolkit has been used by some foundations. Presenters will highlight
several areas covered in the report, including diversity audits, data
collection and board and vendor diversity.
The webinar will feature commentary from:
- Yolanda
Alindor, Organizational and Professional Development
Officer, The San Francisco Foundation
- Dianne
Yamashiro–Omi, Program Manager of Equity Diversity,
The California Endowment
- Hanh Cao
Yu, Vice President, Social Policy Research
Associates
Presenters
Yolanda Alindor
Organizational and Professional Development Officer, The San Francisco Foundation
Yolanda Alindor is the organizational and professional development officer at The San Francisco
Foundation, where she leads the Multicultural Fellowship Program and the
Community Leadership Project. The Fellowship Program's purpose is to cultivate
and increase diversity in the next generation of community leaders. The
Community Leadership Project, funded jointly by the Hewlett, Irvine and Packard
Foundations, provides capacity–building resources to organizations working in
low–income communities of color.
Dianne Yamashiro–Omi
Program Manager of Equity Diversity, The California Endowment
Dianne Yamashiro-Omi is the program manager of equity diversity at The California
Endowment and has more than 20 years of experience in philanthropy. She was
previously a senior program officer for the foundation's Culturally Competent
Health Systems and Diversifying the Healthcare Workforce program. In 2008 she
worked with other TCE staff to develop the first California Endowment Diversity
Audit and to create the Foundation Diversity Toolkit: Policies & Practices
for Organizational Effectiveness, a compilation of local and national foundation
diversity policies and practices.
Hanh Cao Yu
Vice President, Social Policy Research Associates
Hanh Cao Yu is vice president and member of the corporate
senior management team at Social Policy
Research Associates, where she oversees much of the company's research and
evaluation work in philanthropy. Yu has over 20 years experience in leading
qualitative and quantitative research in the areas of effective philanthropy,
youth leadership development, youth organizing, organizational effectiveness,
policy evaluation, community organizing, women's philanthropy and vulnerable
populations. She has experience working with foundations to
assess funding priorities, institutional change, program performance and
effective outcome measures.
Location:
This event is a webinar.
Fees:Free
Who May Attend:
Current SCG, NCG and SDG members
Register online with Northern California Grantmakers.
Please RSVP no later than Wednesday, June 9, 2010.