MLICCI’s own Cassandra Welchlin to take part in an important national briefing this week in New York highlighting findings of the report As the South Grows. The report features insights from more than 100 interviews and focus groups within community leaders and funders working across the region, including MLICCI’s executive director Carol Burnett.
The free July 7, 2017 “funder learning lab” is hosted by the Ford Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation in partnership with Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP).
The event seeks to tackle the issue of disparate funding that fails to adequately support southern-based minority initiatives in the south.
It’s undeniable: many of the most regressive trends now taking shape on the national stage – from threats to women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ communities to rollbacks on climate change, workers’ rights, sexual violence, education, policing, and healthcare – began in the American South. Yet, the South is also the birthplace of the resistance.
Women and girls of color, in particular, have spearheaded the creation of a vast network of change agents who know how to resist creatively and build power in today’s national context.
National philanthropy has not kept up, investing just two cents in places like Selma and the Delta for every dollar spent per capita on New York City. In-region funders stand ready to leverage grassroots energy and expand local support long-term, but they can’t do it alone.
For details, or to register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/as-the-south-grows-roots-of-the-resistance-tickets-35607572207