62 research outputs found
Grantmaking With a Racial Justice Lens : A Practical Guide
No full textThe new Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practical Guide, written by PRE Senior Fellow Rinku Sen and Executive Director Lori Villarosa with contributions from Maggie Potapchuk, Lisa McGill, and Makani Themba, provides grantmakers with reflections, frameworks and tools built from the direct experience of activists and funders for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting
Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
No full textMinimum wages are generally thought to be unenforceable in developing rural economies. But there is one solution - a workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 percent at a fiscal cost representing 3-4 percent of GDP when run for the whole year. Confining the scheme to the lean season (three months) would bring the annual poverty rate down to 31 percent at a cost of 1.3 percent of GDP. While the gains from a guaranteed wage rate would be better targeted than a uniform (untargeted) cash transfer, the extra costs of the wage policy imply that it would have less impact on poverty.Environmental Economics&Policies,Safety Nets and Transfers,Rural Poverty Reduction,Services&Transfers to Poor,Health Economics&Finance
The "Colorblind" Attack on Your Health
No full textFew measurements pose a greater threat to the modern right's core supposition of equality than a tally of who lives and dies from preventable and treatable diseases. They have attempted (with some success) to reframe the issue as one of personal, rather than societal responsibility - using a colorblind approach that attempts to shift all responsibilty for both the problems and solution to individuals, and denying any institutional or societal bias or responsibility. This attempt is a direct attack on the continuing advancement of racial health equality.https://www.colorlines.com/articles/colorblind-attack-your-healt
The "Colorblind" Attack on Your Health
No full textFew measurements pose a greater threat to the modern right's core supposition of equality than a tally of who lives and dies from preventable and treatable diseases. They have attempted (with some success) to reframe the issue as one of personal, rather than societal responsibility - using a colorblind approach that attempts to shift all responsibilty for both the problems and solution to individuals, and denying any institutional or societal bias or responsibility. This attempt is a direct attack on the continuing advancement of racial health equality
A Positive Future for Black Boys: Building the Movement
No full textAfter identifying black boys as the population that is the least well served by U.S. public education, the Schott Foundation hosted a conference which determined that public policy, community efforts, and the public would be necessary to reverse this outcome. The report presents findings on how to build a social movement and includes worksheets to serve as a template
Short Changed: Foundation Giving and Communities of Color
No full textThis report discusses ways in which foundations concerned with social justice have supported efforts to effectively address racial inequality and discrimination
Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework
No full textNarrative change has become a popular focus with growing urgency to change public narratives around issues like racial justice, health equity, abortion rights, and rights for trans people. But because this area of work is relatively new for funders, the work is often siloed, leading to a lack of meaningful results. This report's authors propose a framework for funders and practitioners to shift narratives via mass culture, mass media, and mass movements
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens
No full textWhen the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE), in partnership with GrantCraft, released Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens, a few foundations had made racial equity a central focus of their work, but many were still exploring how to incorporate equity into their grantmaking.Our guide helped surface how to advance racial equity in philanthropy, aiming to make it a core practice and goal of grantmakers. Rather than other popular approaches of the time—"colorblindness," universal approaches, diversity—PRE's guide defined a racially equitable world as one where the distribution of resources, opportunities and burdens is not determined or predictable by race. We successfully argued that an explicit racial equity lens ensures that the particular needs and assets of communities are
An Effective Back Propagation Neural Network Architecture for the Development of an Efficient Anomaly Based Intrusion Detection System
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