Elevating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Leading Grantmakers Share Lessons Learned and

Challenges Ahead

April 24, 2018

AGENDA

1. Welcome and Introductions

Kelly James, Novo Foundation

2. Moderator Presentation

Lindsay Hill, Raikes Foundation

3. Presentation by Guest Speakers

Angelique Kedem, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Susan Johnson, Lumina Foundation

4. Discussion and Q&A

5. Next steps

KELLY JAMES, NOVO FOUNDATION

Kelly provides strategy and capacity support to philanthropists, advocates and

state education leaders as the firm’s leading expert in strategic planning. As an

expert in college and career readiness, social and emotional learning, education

advocacy and grantmaking effectiveness, she supports a diverse set of partners

ranging from national and regional foundations to large urban school systems to

a major broadcasting network.

Kelly’s interest in education reform began at an early age. As an undergraduate

at the College of Wooster, Kelly focused on supports for struggling students in

poor and failing schools with an independent study with Cleveland Metropolitan

School District. She continued to explore this passion at University of Chicago

Law School with a thesis on Managing Adequacy: The No Child Left Behind Act

and the Constitutional Right to An Adequate Education.

Kelly’s passion for equal access to education has continued throughout her

career: as a program officer for the Raikes Foundation (developing the strategy

for non-cognitive skills in middle school youth) and the Bill & Melinda Gates

Foundation; as an attorney at Karr Tuttle Campbell; as the founding executive

director of Chicago SCORES; and through a grassroots grantmaking initiative for

the Steans Family Foundation in Chicago.

Grantmakers for Thriving Youth (GTY) is a funders’

forum advancing a comprehensive approach to learning

and development that will enable all young people to

acquire the skills and capacities needed for success in

learning, work, citizenship and life. GTY promotes awareness, facilitates connections,

catalyzes collaborations, and disseminates

knowledge about policies, practices and research

among funders in education, child and youth

development, family well-being, health and other

allied fields.

Identifying

leverage points

across the

ecosystem where

philanthropy can

advance practice,

policy and

research toward

supporting all

youth to thrive.

GTY is building a robust and welcoming community of grantmakers working in coordination across key disciplines to help youth thrive. Our key strategies are:

• Inform and Engage the broader philanthropic community • Connect and Build Capacity among grantmakers investing in thriving youth • Catalyze and Influence grantmaking through priority issue workgroups

Join us at www.thrivingyouth.org!

GTY STEERING COMMITTEE The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Bezos Family Foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Einhorn Family Charitable Trust

The Hive at Springpoint

James Walton Fund

John Templeton Foundation

National Public Education Support Fund

NoVo Foundation

Raikes Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Stuart Foundation

Susan Crown Exchange

S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

Tauck Family Foundation

The Wallace Foundation

Walton Family Foundation

The William And Flora Hewlett Foundation

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

WORKING GROUP

• Created a learning agenda for DEI and SEL that will

support members in building knowledge and

understanding across three domains: our foundations,

our sector and our field.

• Today’s webinar focuses on our sector: Philanthropy

• May GTY meeting will be a deep dive on DEI across

our foundations

• Future activities will address DEI in our field

WEBINAR OBJECTIVE

■ Learn from the DEI journeys of funders including their reflections

and lessons learned, frameworks and tools they found useful,

and actions they took internally at their foundations and with their

grantees to elevate DEI in their work.

LINDSAY HILL, RAIKES FOUNDATION

Lindsay Hill joined the Raikes Foundation as a program officer in

2015. In addition to her national education strategy work, she co-

leads the foundation’s efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion.

Prior to joining the Raikes Foundation, Lindsay spent four years as

the founding executive director of Teach For America –

Washington. She began her career as a fourth-grade teacher in

Brooklyn through Teach For America and later worked as a

program director, supporting new teachers in three of New York

City’s boroughs.

Lindsay has also served as the director of training and support for

the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, and she sits on the board of

directors for the Bureau of Fearless Ideas, a Seattle-based

nonprofit. She holds a joint bachelor’s degree in sociology and

public policy from Pomona College and a master’s degree in

teaching from Pace University.

FROM OPPRESSION TO LIBERATION

Internalized/

Interpersonal

Institutional

Systemic

Paradigm/Narrative

RAIKES FOUNDATION EQUITY JOURNEY

Personal/Internalized

Organization

System

Systematically accesses

perspectives of diverse constituent

groups

Intentional investment

strategies that address individual, institutional and

structural barriers

Grantee commitment to DEI

Grantee capacity building support for

DEI

Evaluation design and tools to support

equity outcomes

Systematic collection and

disaggregation of data

Understands how DEI inequities are

produced and maintained

Participatory program design and

execution

Advances diverse program leadership

Lesson learned: pursuing equity in process and outcomes

ANGELIQUE KEDEM, ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION

Angelique joined the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Race, Ethnic Equity

and Inclusion team as a senior associate in January 2016. This portfolio is responsible for integrating an equity and inclusion focus into

all Casey programs and operations.

Angelique grew up in South Africa and graduated high school in the

year of the country’s first democratic elections. She received her

Master’s degree in Public Administration from the School of

Government at the University of the Western Cape. She has more than

a decade of experience in juvenile justice reform focused on racial,

ethnic and gender disparities, as well as leading the Saint Paul

Promise Neighborhood Initiative as director.

The experience growing up in South Africa’s segregated and unequal

society has deeply influenced her thinking about justice, human rights and equity. She brings to the work a focus on equal partnership

between large public systems and impacted communities of color, and

an emphasis on the critical role of culture in addition to race, in changing outcomes. In February 2010, Angelique was named a

‘Facing Race Ambassador’ by Minnesota’s St. Paul Foundation.

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Our Focus

❖Shared language

❖Structural barriers

❖Targeted strategies

Our Approach to Equity

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Lessons Learned

• Embracing an equity agenda requires both bottom-up and top-down strategies.

• Leadership endorsement is necessary to make equity an institutional priority.

• Tying equity work to the mission will help all individuals shift over time.

• Focusing on the structural and institutional aspects of equity also provides a clear framework for taking efforts to scale.

SUSAN JOHNSON, LUMINA FOUNDATION

Susan D. Johnson is Director of Organizational Development and Philanthropic

Practice where she provides conceptual leadership and strategic direction in

Lumina's efforts to achieve the 60% attainment goal.

Throughout her career in higher education, she has acquired intimate knowledge of

policies and practices affecting student success, student engagement, and

institutional accountability. After joining Lumina in 2008, Susan served as a strategy

officer, director of equity and inclusion, and later as director of impact and research

where she actively sought to engage professionals, scholars, and partners

committed to the promotion of equity and excellence in postsecondary education.

Prior to joining Lumina, Susan held professional positions in student affairs at

Louisiana State University and the University of North Dakota and in institutional

research at Indiana University. Johnson earned her B.S., M.S., and M.Ed. degrees

from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs

at Indiana University.

She is actively involved in the philanthropic and higher education sectors, currently

serving on the boards of Grantmakers for Education (GFE) and Higher Education

Resource Services (HERS), and the executive team of Indiana Blacks in

Philanthropy (IBIP). She is also a co-editor of 'Standing on the Outside Looking In:

Underrepresented Students’ Experiences in Advanced Degree Programs.

GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION CASE STUDY

Questions & Discussion

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