We need to build infrastructures to elevate policy priorities that have the greatest impact on communities of color and women in order to decrease social inequality.

If you cannot fund organizing, then I want you to express your support for organizing and get other people to fund it.

When talking tax policy you must talk about racial equity. Tax policy is a civil rights issue.

It’s important to communicate how equal opportunity and equity can benefit all of us.

In our day to day lives there are a lot of harmful narratives that push against racial equity.

There are many systemic problems within philanthropy, including inflexible or outdated strategies and evaluation requirements. Barriers such as these inhibit building long-term relationships between funders and Black communities.

Philanthropic organizations can do their part to help support minority led organizations by leaning into trust-based philanthropy and providing unrestricted capital so that nonprofits can actually use the funding in the way that best serves their community.

Be more than just grantmakers — be change makers. The relationship between funders and NPOs shouldn’t just be capital based. Nonprofits can also benefit greatly from the knowledge, thought leadership, and networks that philanthropic organizations can offer.

The assumptions, expectations, and norms of white supremacy culture affect us all in everyday interactions.

Racial justice requires economic justice; economic justice requires racial justice, and a catalyst to realizing both is asset-building focused philanthropy.