Topic: Race & Social Justice

Can Data Drive Social Change? Tackling School Segregation with Numbers
In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation.

The Rockefeller Foundation Confronts School Inequality
A college prep program increased admissions rates for at-risk students, but it also raised larger questions about systemic inequality.

Supporting Economic Justice? Ford’s 1968 PRI Experiment
How the largest US foundation began supporting market-based projects in the late 1960s.