Incorporating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Grant-Making Process: A Checklist of Potential Actions

Compiled by Nancy Chan (nancy.chan@arabellaadvisors.com) and Pamela Fischer (pamela.fischer@arabellaadvisors.com)

The checklist has relocated here — please click this link to see the checklist and also download a PDF copy.

http://www.equityinphilanthropy.org/2016/10/04/dei-grantmaking-checklist/

The checklist is intended to provide actionable ideas on how to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in grant-making processes. We gathered these ideas based on Arabella Advisors’ own experiences with grant making, as well as research posted on the D5 Coalition website, feedback from many philanthropists (such as members of EPIP, AAPIP, HIP, and BAPIP), and other resources (including the Bay Area Justice Funders Network’s Choir Book: A Framework for Social Justice Philanthropy and this blog post on funding and inequity).

If you have thoughts on how to improve this checklist, please email nancy.chan@arabellaadvisors.com.

Acknowledgements

We thank our colleagues at Arabella Advisors and representatives of the D5 Coalition, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy (BAPIP), Northern California Grantmakers (NCG), Bay Area Justice Funders Group, and The Whitman Institute, as well as many others, for providing invaluable input on this checklist of recommendations.