Meeting and Discussion Materials

Below you will find a collection of past meeting handouts and other discussion materials (BY TOPIC).

Best Practices in Giving with an Equity Lens

• Handout - High Quality Engagement in Grantmaking (docx)
• Handout - Love With Power (PDF)
• Handout - Shifts That Could Help with Effective Grantmaking (docx)
• Handout - Think Layers, Not Ladders (docx)
• Handout - Towards a Better Place (PDF)
• Meeting Notes (docx)
• Presentation - Grassroots Grantmaking and Building Inclusion & Equity (pptx)

Champions and Championing 

• How to Assess Change Readiness
• Peer to Peer At the Heart of Influencing More Effective Philanthropy
• White People in Philanthropy

Courageous Conversations Compass

• Case Study
• Meeting Notes (docx)

Cradle to Career: Closing the Achievement Gap

• Resource List

Critical Race Theory

• Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism
  
• White Supremacy Culture
  
• Whiteness and White Identity Development
  

Disabilities, People With

• Handout (docx)
• Meeting Notes (docx)

Education and Philanthropy

• All Students Ready for College, Career and Life: Reflections on the Foundation's Education Investments 2000-2008
• All Students Ready for College, Career and Life (Summary)
• At Explore Charter School, a Portrait of Segregated Education
• Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
• Our Achievement-Gap Mania
• Start with the Facts: Strengthening Denver Public Schools' Education Pipeline

Effective Foundation Management

• Barry Schwartz: Our Loss of Wisdom (TED talks)
• Effective Foundation Management: 14 Challenges of Philanthropic Leadership-And How to Outfox Them

Four I's of Oppression

• The Four "I's" of Oppression
  
• The Four "I's" of Oppression Funding Tool Worksheet

Gender Inequality

• Meeting Notes (docx)

Gentrification

• Handout Presentation (pptx)
  
• Meeting Notes (docx)
  

Heroes Among Us: Stories of People Who Have Changed Their Organization

• Bio of Rosemarie Allen (PDF)
• Meeting Notes (PDF)
• Quotes (PDF)

History of Philanthropy

• Democratizing Philanthropy: Challenging Foundations and Social Justice Organizations by Christine Ahn (PDF)
• History of Philanthropy in the United States (PDF)

Intersections of Identity

• Expand the Base A Grantmaker's Guide to Gender Justice and Civic Engagement
• Funding at the Intersection--CIF5
• Intersections of Identity: Navigating the Complexities

Intersection of Race and Wealth/Poverty

• Class Privilege Worksheet (docx)
• Handout: Wealth Gap Graphs and Charts (docx) 
• Meeting Notes (PDF)

Leading Organizational Change

• Handout: Northwest Health Foundation (PDF)
  
• Program Flyer Announcement (PDF)
  

Microaggressions

• Examples of Microagression
• Microaggression Presentation
• Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life

More Effective Philanthropy through Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

• Organizational Assessment and Planning Worksheet (PDF)

Moving Philanthropy Towards Racial Equity

• Five "P's" of Racial Equity Checklist (doc)
• Meeting Notes (PDF)

Refugee Experience

• Meeting Notes (PDF)
  
• Slide Presentation-CO Refugee Services Program (PDF)
• Ten Facts about US Refugee Resettlement (PDF)
• Ways to Volunteer and Get Involved (PDF)
• What Puzzles You about Refugee Resettlement (docx)
  

Social Justice Philanthropy

• The Charitable-Industrial Complex (New York Times)
• Movement Action Plan Summary (MAP)
• Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing the Eight Stages of Successful Social Movement
• Social Justice Presentation (PPT)
• Meeting Notes

Statewide Funding Strategies

• 2013 Statewide Funding: A Compilation of 2011 Foundation Funding in Colorado
• Tenets of Statewide Funding: What Does It Take to be a Bona Fide Statewide Funder

Systems Change through Resident/Community Engagement

• Meeting Notes (docx)
  
• Together Colorado Fact Sheet (PDF)
  

Voices of the Disenfranchised/Challenges Faced by Returning Citizens

• Meeting Notes and Resources (docx)
  
• The Landscape for Returning Citizens Presentation (pptx)
  

White Privilege

• Handout: Not In My School! Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. (PDF)
  

Words Have Meaning and Impact

• Meeting Notes and Resources
• Terminology