Project Description
The Diversity in Philanthropy Project is a voluntary effort of leading foundation trustees, senior staff and executives committed to increasing field-wide diversity through open dialogue and strategic action.
We believe that diversifying perspectives, talent and experience can help ensure philanthropy’s continued leadership in a rapidly changing society. Therefore, building on philanthropy’s best traditions and aspirations, we’re working together to develop a new, field-wide agenda for diversity.
Launched as a three-year initiative (2007-2009), this project seeks to expand diversity, equity and inclusion in board and staff representation, grant making and contracting.
Our Priorities
Following are the core activities and strategies that we seek to promote:
Voluntary peer-support
Encouraging collaboration between field-wide leaders to realize the benefits of a more diverse sector.
Transparent and actionable data
Partnering with supporting organizations to track and report field-wide diversity performance, and share new research and knowledge.
Tools, best practices and talent
Creating a long-term resource for accessing learning models, best practices and talent banks of diverse board and staff candidates, advisors and contractors.
Our Supporters
The Diversity in Philanthropy Project receives funding and other support from the following grant making institutions and philanthropic leadership networks:
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Association of Black Foundation executives (ABFE)
- C. S. Mott Foundation
- Chicago Community Trust
- Council on Foundations
- Dade Community Foundation
- David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- Donors Forum of Chicago
- Ford Foundation
- Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
- Healthcare Georgia Foundation
- Humboldt Area Foundation
- Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
- Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
- Marguerite Casey Foundation
- Montana Community Foundation
- Native Americans in Philanthropy
- Needmor Fund
- New York Regional Association of Grantmakers
- Philanthropy Northwest
- Prudential Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
- Rosenberg Foundation
- San Francisco Foundation
- The Atlantic Philanthropies
- The California Endowment
- The Foundation Center
- The James Irvine Foundation
- The Russell Family Foundation
- W. K. Kellogg Foundation
- Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
- William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation