Information Session
We’re reimagining our Racial Justice Learning and Action Cohort and excited to share more! Join us to learn more about the Cohort curriculum, experience, and application process from Bari Katz and Edgar Villanueva on June 12.
About the Racial Equity Learning & Action Network
The National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) has partnered with Leverage Philanthropic Partners to create a Learning and Action Cohort that will provide an intentional, transformative learning journey and support families in making a deeper commitment to advancing racial justice in a way that is meaningful and grounded in a root cause analysis of injustice pervasive in society today.
This will be a cohort-based experience with an intensive, 2-day in-person session in Puerto Rico on November 29-30. The experience will focus on learning, reflection, skill building and action planning, around the topics described below. The in-person session will be followed by three virtual sessions in January, February, and March 2024 during which participants can bring specific challenges they are facing in their philanthropy for workshopping with peers and Leverage Philanthropic facilitators, Bari Katz and Edgar Villanueva.
This one hour information session will provide full details on the cohort, how it will work, and who is eligible to participate. However please find some overview information below.
Eligibility
- Family philanthropy board member, principal, or senior staff member with decision making authority/influence
- Have engaged in some type of personal or professional racial equity work in the past
- We will accept up to two participants per organization and request that participants bring their learnings back to their organizations.
Participant Goals
- Join a cohort of family foundation trustees and senior leaders on a learning journey to engage in opportunities for personal growth around identity, power and privilege and taking action
- Create a vision for who they and their family want to be in the world and shape a philanthropic practice rooted in that vision
- Leave with a deepened commitment to advance racial justice through philanthropy practice
- Enable participants to apply the lessons from the first part of the cohort to specific practices or approaches within their family philanthropy.
Key Learning Objectives
- Active form of engagement
- Build skills of deep listening, reflection, clear communication, shame resilience
- Relationship and community building among peers
- How to build a strategy around alliances and solidarity with other members of their family and board
- Develop an analysis of how racial equity is critical to responsible grantmaking
Schedule
2023
Tuesday, November 28
- Arrival in Puerto Rico. Group dinner in the evening.
Wednesday, November 29
- Session 1—Full day session
Thursday, November 30
- Session 2—Full day session
Friday, December 1
- Departure
2024
January
- Monthly Virtual Coaching Session
February
- Monthly Virtual Coaching Session
March
- Monthly Virtual Coaching Session
Expectations of Participants
Racial Justice Learning and Action Cohort participants will be expected to participate in a two-day in-person meeting. Participants will need to pay for their own travel and lodging costs.
We ask that you bring your whole selves and prepare for challenging and thoughtful work. Opportunities to learn, reflect, build community, and collaborate will be available in-between the facilitated sessions.