How California Foundations Are Addressing Issues of Diversity
San Francisco
Monday, August 4, 2008, 1:00-3:00 pm
As the diversity of California's population continues to grow, a new Foundation Center analysis of grantmaking by 50 of the state's largest independent foundations finds that at least 39 percent of California-focused grants benefited populations of color. According to the report, Embracing Diversity: Foundation Giving Benefiting California's Communities of Color, in 2005 alone, these 50 California-based foundations awarded a minimum of 2,700 grants totaling nearly $300 million to support health, education, social services, and other programs that serve ethnically or racially diverse populations. In addition, 10-year trends show that giving benefiting these populations grew nearly twice as fast as overall giving between 1996 and 2005.
Attend this informative briefing led by Larry McGill, senior vice president for research at the Foundation Center and the primary author of the study. "Most of the data previously available has undercounted the level of philanthropic giving that benefits ethnic communities," said McGill. "This report provides a more complete picture about the level of investment made by foundations to help California's diverse populations."
The report, commissioned by a group of regional grantmaker associations (Northern California Grantmakers, Southern California Grantmakers, and San Diego Grantmakers), provides a comprehensive estimate of the extent to which communities of color are being served by foundation giving in California.
Embracing Diversity can be downloaded at no charge from the Gain Knowledge area of the Foundation Center's web site.
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The Foundation Center-San Francisco
312 Sutter Street
2nd Floor Conference Room
San Francisco, CA 94108
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This program is offered free
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