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The Choices We Make As Evaluators: You Gotta Serve Somebody

February 12, 2021 Steve Mayer

As evaluators, we are always making choices. These choices may not always be apparent at the time one makes them.  We may not even have made them consciously.   But in retrospect – and retrospect provides […]

Philanthropy, Justice, and Evaluation
EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY

Pathways to Progress: Focusing Philanthropy on Racial Equity and Social Justice

January 16, 2021 Steve Mayer

This paper is the culmination of five years’ work evaluating Ford Foundation’s portfolio of grants, “Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity in the American South.” It is based on reflective, focused, and appreciative conversations with nearly 100 philanthropic organizations operating in both African American and White American settings. […]

Indicators of freedom
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Indicators of Freedom From The Film, “12 Years a Slave”

November 12, 2020 Steve Mayer

I went to see “12 Years a Slave” the other night, but was a little apprehensive about going, given what I’d heard.  To keep it together I decided to write down all the indicators of […]

Institutionalized racism
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Institutional Racism: It’s Hard To See Racism When You’re White

November 11, 2020 Steve Mayer

“It’s hard to see racism when you’re White,” the billboards erected by Duluth’s [former] Un-Fair Campaign allege.   The billboard conveys the message very directly of institutional racism.  Enraged Whites, according to an article in the […]

Philanthropy, Justice, and Evaluation
EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY

Can Philanthropy Create Greater Racial Equity and Social Justice?

November 10, 2020 Steve Mayer

Can philanthropy create greater racial equity and social justice?  Good question.  And the answer is Yes, we learned in a five-year inquiry with support from the Ford Foundation.  What does philanthropy do to make progress […]

Institutional philanthropy
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

Downsides to Philanthropy: The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong

November 5, 2020 Steve Mayer

There are downsides to philanthropy as well as its well-publicized upsides.  Philanthropy has a Jekyll and Hyde approach to benefiting communities and society: talking big but releasing only a trickle of cash on terrible terms […]

Philanthropy, Justice, and Evaluation
JUST PHILANTHROPY

The Confluence of “Philanthropy, Justice, and Evaluation”

November 4, 2020 Steve Mayer

For years, my blog, “JustPhilanthropy.org” ran with the tagline: “From the confluence of philanthropy, justice, and evaluation.” Where is that place? I imagine like one of those braided Alaska rivers with crisscrossing streams – the […]

SOCIAL JUSTICE

George Soros Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize

November 1, 2020 Steve Mayer

George Soros deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the work of his Open Society Foundations. Here’s a good video on the work of this network, which I had the chance to look at up close […]

Good trouble, necessary trouble
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble

July 20, 2020 Steve Mayer

Rep. John Lewis, who devoted his life to making “good trouble, necessary trouble” in the pursuit of racial justice and equality, died July 17, 2020 at 80. As a student, he, with many others, “was […]

Structural inequities and philanthropy
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Op-Ed: Philanthropy Must Address Structural Inequities

July 10, 2020 Steve Mayer

Op-Ed: Philanthropy Must Address Structural Inequities (pdf) Pathways to Progress: Moving Philanthropy Closer to Social Justice and Racial Equity.  Developed with support from the Ford Foundation. By Steven E. Mayer. Until foundations address the structural inequities […]

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  • The Choices We Make As Evaluators: You Gotta Serve Somebody
    February 12, 2021
  • Wanted: Better Evaluation Practices for a Better Philanthropy
    January 16, 2021
  • Pathways to Progress: Focusing Philanthropy on Racial Equity and Social Justice
    January 16, 2021
  • A “Dignity Gap”
    January 15, 2021
  • How to Assist Disadvantaged Groups
    December 14, 2020
  • Use Advocacy To Promote Social Change
    November 18, 2020
  • Indicators of Freedom From The Film, “12 Years a Slave”
    November 12, 2020
  • Institutional Racism: It’s Hard To See Racism When You’re White
    November 11, 2020
  • Evidence of Success: Follow the Action
    November 11, 2020
  • Can Philanthropy Create Greater Racial Equity and Social Justice?
    November 10, 2020

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