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The story of Hispanics in Philanthropy’s racial equity journey offers an example of prioritizing deep work within the organization. By strengthening equity internally, HIP seeks to live its values and build an organizational culture and practices that support and reflect its external equity work.

The story of Northern California Grantmakers’ racial equity journey provides a roadmap for setting racial equity as the ‘North Star’ and how to operationalize organization-wide racial equity practices.

PEAK Grantmaking’s racial equity journey is a story of balancing broad efforts to advance equity across philanthropy with an internal equity journey. Interviews with seven insiders (leaders, staff, and board members) at PEAK shed light on how the organization is evolving, grappling with tensions, and seeking to live its values. 

The story of Wisconsin Philanthropy Network’s racial equity journey highlights the importance of creating shared language and understanding to deepen Board and member engagement in advancing racial equity strategies.

This report benchmarks the progress of the Forum’s PSO members on advancing racial equity. In doing so, this report helps shed light on the internal and external racial equity strategies being undertaken across the larger PSO field. We also offer a summary of the successes and challenges PSOs face in designing and implementing racial equity efforts for further reflection and action.

Advancing racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in philanthropy is a key pillar of work and core strategic priority at the Forum. We have released a statement, signed by many of our members, to express this continued commitment.