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Black Philanthropy References.
A list of research references for Black Philanthropy.

A Status Report on Career Staff Diversity At The University of California.

The Coalition for New Philanthropy: New York City.
A case study of a coalition of three ethnic funds, a regional association of grantmakers and an academic center coming together to strategically mobilize community resources for communities of color.

Diversity in Foundations: The Number & Their Meaning.
This chapter examines the meaning and impact of diversity – comprising differences of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability status – among foundation professionals.

Ethnic Diversity and Charitable Giving.
This study analyzes how private donations to charitable organizations that help the needy are affected by greater community heterogeneity.

Fairness in Philanthropy: Foundation Giving to Minority-Led Nonprofits.
The purpose of this report is to quantify foundation giving to minority-led nonprofits to assess how equitably foundation dollars and resources are allocated among the sector.

Inside Inclusiveness: Race, Ethnicity and Nonprofit Organizations.
A research report on nonprofit organizations in Metro Denver prepared for The Denver Foundation's Expanding Nonprofit Inclusiveness Initiative

Investing in a Diverse Democracy: Foundation Giving to Minority –Led Nonprofits.
The purpose of this study is to measure the role foundations are playing in empowering minority communities to contribute to the nation’s cutting edge public policy dialogue.

MSOs and the Economy: Survey Results.
This survey report indicates that demand for minority serving organizations services is up and earned income is up despite reductions in grant income for minority serving organizations.

RACE, CULTURE, POWER, AND INCLUSION IN FOUNDATIONS.
The purpose of this study was to learn about practices in philanthropy in order to provide ideas and guidance around these issues.
Race, Wealth and the Commons.
A discussion of the racial wealth divide in the United States.

Racial Justice and Equity: Changes for the American South
This paper outlines and discusses equality and equity issues in the South.

Rural Philanthropy: Building Dialogue from within.
This report explores the both the real and perceived barriers between rural nonprofits and foundations in urban areas, as well as strategies for overcoming those obstacles.

Strategic Diversity to Increase Human Capital in Public and Nonprofit Organizations.
This paper will attempt to formulate a means to combat the future workforce shortage in the public and nonprofit sectors by combining current knowledge of diversity management with human capital development. The goals of both of these areas have been to increase worker commitment, productivity, and

The Meaning and Impact of Board and Staff Diversity in the Philanthropic Field.
A Joint Affinity Groups project. The primary lesson of this research is the importance of keeping board and staff diversity squarely on the philanthropic agenda.

THE PATTERN OF UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE POLICY & FUNDING IN RURAL AMERICA’S LOW WEALTH AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES.
This report focuses on the misalignment of USDA funding patterns with the needs of rural America as well as the fundamental need for USDA’s mission and strategic goals to acknowledge and act on the realities of rural America.

Wealth Building in Communities of Color: Economic Justice as a Civil & Human Right.

Why Diversity is an Opportunity.
A discussion of the importance of diversity and how to understand and value cultural differences.

The Relationship of Board Member Diversity to Organizational Performance
Data from 240 YMCA organizations helped construct a board diversity index indicating that board diversity results into high level of social performance and fundraising results. Other findings include: Gender diversity compared favorably to the organization’s level of social performance, but a negative association for level of funds raised; age diversity was linked to higher levels of donations.

Emerging Ethnic Agencies Building Capacity to Build Community
In this article recommendations are offered for ways in which mainstream organizations can assist in building the capacities of emerging agencies so that they can become full partners in community-building efforts.

Communities In Canada From A Governance Perspective
This study examines how the ethnic communities in Canada go about organizing and governing themselves to achieve their particular goals.

Leadership Diversity: The nonprofit sector has a spotty record on advancement
This article addresses the concerns of the future leadership of the nonprofit sector. Authors site several studies that suggest diversity can strengthen leadership in the sector.

Pathways for Change: Philanthropy Among African American, Asian American, and Latino Donors in the New York Metropolitan Region
A study that examines giving among people of color.

Short Changed: Foundations Giving and Communities of Color
This is a study that argues racism no longer exists; thus, an increase in diversity at foundations does not affect the sector.

Giving: A Shared Inheritance
This study examines the metropolitan city of Atlanta. Its findings are contrasting to the idea that African Americans do not give their time and money to help their communities.

Chicago Philanthropy Demographics
As one of the cities leading the nation in giving and foundation organizations, this study examines policies and practices along with the demographic information on gender and racial backgrounds. The findings are comparable to national studies.

African American Philanthropy
This document highlights the giving trends and traditions of African Americans.

Emerging Philanthropy in Communities of Color: A Report on Current Trends
This brief report examines the current situation minorities have in the philanthropic sector.

Giving Back: An Examination of the Philanthropic Motivations, Orientations and Activities of Large Black-Owned Businesses
This article examines the organizations and/or projects that large black owned businesses give to.

African American Philanthropy
African American Philanthropy is a literature review on the history and current state of African American Philanthropy

Bibliography Database on Black Philanthropy Major Publications
This Database highlights major publications that provide information on Black Philanthropy.

Delgado, Louis T. A Demographic Profile of Independently Incorporated Native American Foundations and Selected Funds in the United States
This report offers demographic information on sixty Native American foundations, nonprofit organizations, and tribal funds.

Youth

Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
This monograph, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, documents its findings about executive transition management (EMT), and executive transitions. This document also details the strategic uses of interim executives in transitions.

Your Guide to Youth Board Involvement and the Law.
This offers insight behind the law when youth work on boards

Youth and Philanthropy: Engaging Tomorrow's Donors Today
This article offers suggestions to organizations can attract youth.

Engaging the Next Generation
This report is based on a survey of 4,000 adults, and it gives suggestions about ways to engage youth to be productive in the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy and the Young
This article gives suggestions on how to teach philanthropy to young children.

Women

Women’s Philanthropy in the United States: Trends and Developments
This article looks at the trends and developments of Women’s Philanthropy in the United States.

Giving Together: a National Scan of Giving Circles and Shared Giving
A broad study of the characteristics, benefits, and impact of giving circles across the country.

Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity & Gender Equality
This is an interview with the author, and she depicts why people should read her book.

General Research

Chicago Philanthropy: A Profile of the Grantmaking Profession.
A summary of the findings of a study regarding the grantmaking profession in the Chicago area.

Conservative Philanthropy and Health Policy: Lessons for Reframing the Right.
A study of strategic funding schemes by conservative grantmakers, which have reframed public health care policies in the US.

Fellowships in Philanthropy.
This report presents the findings of Ascent Associates research and interviews with professionals managing, participating in, evaluating, researching, or considering the development of philanthropic fellowship programs.

Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates.
This report is part of the annual Foundations Today Series of reports on foundation growth and trends in foundation giving. It provides a “first look” at 2005 giving and directions for 2006 giving, together with aggregated actual 2004 giving and asset figures for close to 68,000 grantmaking U.S. foundations.

Foundation Strategies for Attracting and Managing Talent.
This report summarizes the strategies foundations employ and the lessons learned based on a study of the human resources practices of 13 large, national, private, professionally staffed U.S. foundations.

More Giving Together
An updated study of the continuing growth and powerful impact of giving circles and shared giving.

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES.
This exploratory analysis examines individual charitable giving and volunteering using primary survey data across a range of demographic and socioeconomic factors to analyze the interaction between giving and volunteering.

Nonprofits Challenged by Recruiting.
This press release reports the findings of the First-Annual Survey by Workfornonprofits.org shows nonprofits challenged by recruiting.

The Glass Ceiling in Different Sectors of the Economy: Differences Between Government, Non-profit and For-profit Organizations.
This paper focuses specifically on patterns of employment for managers, professional and technical workers in three sectors: the government sector, the for-profit sector, the third sector.

The Poor Philanthropist: How and Why the Poor Can Help Each Other.
This monograph documents the results of a qualitative research inquiry into how and why people who are poor help each other.

Today’s Wealth Holder and Tomorrow’s Giving: The New Dynamics of Wealth and Philanthropy.
A discussion of the compelling new questions of the twenty-first century for an increasing segment of our nation’s and the world’s population’s charitable giving.

Venture Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship in Community Redevelopment.
This case study examines how a venture philanthropist and social entrepreneur used two nonprofit foundations, his own resources, and extensive partnerships to enact a strategy of redevelopment of a public housing project and its surrounding neighborhood.

WHY DO PEOPLE GIVE? New Evidence and Strategies for Nonprofit Managers.
This report uses data collected from nonprofit fund-raising executives and survey data on Atlanta residents, in order to estimate the impacts of sociodemographic and economic characteristics on the success of different donor development approaches and subsequently provides a set of management implications that will assist nonprofit managers in crafting development strategies for the organizations they operate.

Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, Preserving the Public Trust: A Study of Exemplary Practices in Grantmaking
The National Network of Grantmakers (NNG) documents policies and procedures that foster greater accountability when funding nonprofit organizations. NNG is an organization of individuals involved in funding social and economic justice.

Death and Dollars: The Role of Gifts and Bequests in America
This volume explores the reasons why people save, how they decide to allocate their wealth once they retire, and how givers select their beneficiaries. This document also examines the estate tax and annuitization of retirement wealth affects the amount and the nature of wealth transfers.

Nonprofit Boards in Australia: a distinctive governance approach
The findings from this report indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic a shareholder approach to nonprofit governance.

Schmavonian Paper on Foundations
This report is a series of papers that explains how the practices of philanthropy can be improved.

Race, Culture, Power & Inclusion in Foundations
The authors of this study examine diversity and equity at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.