Capacity building for communities of color: The paradigm must shift (and why I'm leavin... - 0 views
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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16
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funders do not invest sufficient funds in our organizations to build capacity because we don’t have enough capacity.
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Yet we are constantly asked to do stuff, to sit at various tables, to help with outreach, to rally our community members to attend various summits and support various policies.
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funders provide small grants to nonprofits of color so they can do things like hire a consultant to facilitate a strategic planning retreat, or to send them to workshops on board development, fundraising, personnel policies, or myriad other capacity building topics.
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If we value the voice of our diverse communities, we must build the capacity of organizations led by those communities. But we must do it differently than how we’ve been doing it. We must invest strategically and sufficiently.
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capacity of immigrant/refugee-led nonprofits by providing this critical missing element of staffing.
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The gap in leadership among the immigrant/refugee communities will widen further because kids are not entering the nonprofit field. Most immigrant/refugee kids are pressured by their families to go into jobs with higher pay and prestige