Topic: Race
In Brief: The South African Institute of Race Relations
How did a US foundation manage to work under apartheid?
Who Belongs in the Boy Scouts? Philanthropy’s Support for Black Scouting
How a new foundation helped one of America’s oldest youth organizations become more racially inclusive.
In Brief: James Baldwin’s Creative Writer’s Fellowship
How a foundation provided the final ingredient to an era-defining novel.
Ted Watkins and the Rockefeller Foundation: An Unlikely Partnership
How a charismatic community activist from Watts challenged a foundation’s civil rights strategy.
Photo Essay: Supporting Minority Enterprise in the late 1960s
In 1968, the Ford Foundation began to make social investments using a new tool borrowed from the for-profit world, the Program-Related Investment.
The Origins of the Rockefeller Foundation Equal Opportunity Program
How a simple grant request seeded the launch of a full program addressing inequality.
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.