Is Philanthropy Redlining Black Communities?

By: Susan Taylor Batten

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There has been much written lately about the capacity of Black-led nonprofits and implications for foundation investment practices.  In Philadelphia, the African American Leadership Forum released a report on African American nonprofits in that city titled “How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations. This report mirrors one shared last year by the Bay Area Black United Fund Black -Led Organziations in The Bay Area: From Crisis to Change on the conditions of Black nonprofits in that region.  And most recently, and visibly, we have read about the practices of a major foundation in Chicago relative to their investments in Black communities.