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4/1/2021 0 Comments

JEDIs and the battle against inequity: How AFP has embraced, confronted the challenge

By Nina Gehan
2013 -2017: Starting a conversation about diversity at AFP

The year was 2013. A newly published report, the Race to Equity report, from the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, had just come off the press. The report documented in detail widespread racial disparities in the city of Madison and Dane County and demonstrated through data that African-Americans fared much worse than whites in nearly every category, and across 40 different well-being indicators. The report, coupled with community organizing by the African-American community including Rev. Alex Gee, who penned the op Ed “Justified Anger” in 2013, brought a new focus on equity in the Dane County community.
In the local non-profit sector it seemed like everyone was talking about the report and Rev. Gee’s op ed. Some were “shocked” or “surprised” to learn disparities had only worsened over the years. Others were happy to finally see the reality they knew existed, or that they had been living with, being talked about publicly. People from all backgrounds came together, conversations sprung up, workgroups were formed, demonstrations were organized…

Read more:  AFP Greater Madison | JEDIs and the battle against inequity: How AFP has embraced, confronted the challenge (afpmadison.org)

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    MeaningFULL is a woman and minority owned family business focused on providing hands on services, consulting and coaching in fundraising, development, communications, marketing, and strategic planning to small and medium-sized non-profits. We help our clients build their brand awareness, grow and diversify revenue, and assure organizational development and sustainability with a unique angle that focuses on building equity, growing your own talent, and working towards dismantling structural racism. ​Our approach is meaningful and community centered and works specifically to promote and build diversity, equity and inclusion within the non-profit sector.

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