The Eplan Group aims to offer a wide variety of resources. As we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, our consultants have pulled together some suggested reading around emergency funding/grantmaking as well as equity in grantmaking.
The Business Case for Racial Equity: A Strategy for Growth (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
Creating Communities of Opportunity (Center on the Developing Child – Harvard University)
The Grants Management Response to COVID-19 (Peak Grantmaking)
Have nonprofit and philanthropy become the “white moderate” that Dr. King warned us about? (Nonprofit AF)
The New York Times “Wealth Matters” column
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Participatory grantmaking in a pandemic: practical considerations in Design (Candid)
The Eplan Group consultants are all avid readers. We find new worlds, new information, new perspectives, and new possibilities within the books we choose. Here is a small selection of our recent “must reads.” We encourage you to shop local!
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors are Revolutionizing Giving by Sharna Goldseker & Michael Moody
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities by Ryan Gravel
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