Weekly Reads—December 2, 2022

Enjoy PEAK’s weekly roundup of timely insights from the grantmaking community and beyond.

“Racial healing will be critical in the short and long-term because we desperately desire to move from awakening to reckoning.” [more]
Marcus Walton, GEO Funders, for Candid

“PSOs Are More Diverse than the Field They Serve. According to the 2022 [United Philanthropy Forum] survey, close to half (47 percent) of permanent PSO staff positions are being held by people of color.” [more]
United Philanthropy Forum

“Truth: The crises that inspired increased payout in 2020 and 2021 have only intensified and still deserve philanthropy’s undivided attention and investment. … Lie: In volatile economic times, trustees/directors have a fiduciary duty to protect the endowment by spending less.” [more]
Dimple Abichandani, National Center for Family Philanthropy Fellow, for Inside Philanthropy

“BIPOC leaders—including BIPOC-led organizations and individuals of color—are at the forefront of every major progressive social movement. In 2020, Black and Indigenous women delivered elections in Georgia and Arizona. Indigenous activists are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Women of color are leading the tech justice movement. The list goes on. To realize their potential, such leaders need, not funder-controlled donations, but wealth that they control. Will donors and philanthropy listen?” [more]
Crystal Echo Hawk, Illuminative, and Favianna Rodriguez, The Center for Cultural Power, for Nonprofit Quarterly