http://www.nfg.org/midwest_systems_webinar Sponsored by Woods Fund Chicago, Zilber Family Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, New York Foundation, and Neighborhood Funders Group. Building safe, inclusive, and more equitable communities for low-income and communities of color becomes even more critical as cities and regions continue to develop and expand. In places like Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit, large populations of low-income black communities, immigrant communities, and others continue to be plagued with problems ranging from poor schools, low quality housing, and lack of job opportunities. However, community groups are continuing to work towards solutions that will improve lives in these places. Working with these community groups to navigate the deep history of racially charged polices that have excluded communities, philanthropic institutions and leaders are forging ahead impactful place-based strategies that empower residents, build partnerships, and push towards more equitable change. On May 25, 2017, Neighborhood Funders Group brought together four Midwest philanthropic leaders for a conversation on how they are working to improve neighborhoods and create economic opportunity for communities. The discussion explored topics including: - Strategies and approaches from Midwest funders to improve neighborhoods and create economic opportunities for underserved communities - How funders are addressing intersectional issues like immigration, jobs, poverty, violence, or others that link to equitable development, housing affordability, and community organizing/power-building - How philanthropic leaders are addressing racial justice and structural racism issues with their grantees Speakers: - Grace B. Hou, President, Woods Fund Chicago - Susan Lloyd, Executive Director, Zilber Family Foundation - Ed Egnatios, Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation - Kevin Ryan, Program Director, New York Foundation (moderator)

1. Systems Changes Towards Equity
and Inclusion in the Midwest:
Vision and Practical Grantmaking Steps
Thursday, May 25, 2017

2. Kevin Ryan
Program Director
New York Foundation

3. Grace Hou
President
Woods Fund Chicago

4. NFG
Building safe, inclusive, and more
equitable communities
May 25, 2017
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5. Overview
• Woods Fund Chicago
• Context for the Region
• Woods Fund’s Key Strategies
• Progress
• Practical Grantmaking Lessons
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6. Woods Fund Chicago funds organizations that
draw on the power of communities to fight the
brutality of poverty and structural racism.
• Funds: grantmaking organization
• Draw: invests/leverages
• Power: people
• Communities: is at the core
• Fight: community organizing/policy change
• Brutality: violence, disinvestment, perpetual
underclass
• Poverty/structural racism: roots of the problems
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7. Overarching Context
• Evidence/data to support racially disparate
outcomes
• History and intentional private and public
discrimination and structural racism
• Historical and current high levels of
segregation
• Police/law enforcement/community crisis
of trust
• State budget crisis
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8. Chicago Metropolitan Area
Safety/Violence and Equity
• Chicago’s homicide rate in 2016 at 1996
levels during the crack cocaine epidemic
• African Americans continue to be
overrepresented among Chicago’s homicide
victims, overrepresented at every stage of
the criminal justice system
• Race is consequential in determining whether
a police complaint will be sustained
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Crime Lab analysis ofCPD Records

9. Black White Police Misconduct: 2% of
all cases result in disciplinary action
Black
• 76% of use of force
incidents
• Filed 61% of complaints,
only 25% were sustained
White
• 8% of use of force
incidents (16% other)
• Filed 21% of complaints,
58% were sustained
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10. Chicago Metropolitan Area
Economics and Equity
• Over the past 50 years, Chicago has
transitioned from industrial to service
economy
• Income and wealth inequality among blacks,
Latinx, and whites are worse and worsening
as compared to the national average
• Chicagoans of color are geographically
removed from the city’s job centers and have
fewer transit options
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Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, "A Tale of Three Cities:The State of Racial Justice in
Chicago Report,"2017

11. Black White Wage Gap
Chicago
1960
• Typical white family earns
1.6 times more income
than the typical black
family
2015
• Typical white family earns
2.2 times more income
than the typical black
family
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Median family income is $36,720 for
blacks, $47,308 for Latinx, and $81,702 for
whites.

12. Woods’ Key Strategies
• Responsive grantmaking: community
organizing and public policy advocacy
• Targeted grantmaking: bail bond reform,
police reform, restorative justice, west-side
organizing, workers’ center
• Partnership with philanthropy: CWFA, PSPC,
TRHT IIFC
• Formal commitment to racial equity
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13. Hope and Progress
• Community-led police accountability
commission/oversight design: Grassroots
Alliance for Police Accountability
• Region-wide coalition of workers’ centers that
cross race, region, occupation: Raise the
Floor
• Funder collaborations on workforce,
immigrant rights, violence prevention, and
criminal justice reform
• Funder learning together and acting together
on issues related to racial equity
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14. Lessons
• Fund community organizing/public policy to
address power and long term systems
change
• Responsive and proactive grantmaking
strategy
• Find your unique voice, perspective
• Be an authentic partner, feel equal despite
assets, be vulnerable
• Learn and act/fund, learn more and act/fund,
repeat – avoid analysis paralysis
• Begin the journey
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15. Thank You
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16. Susan Lloyd
Executive Director
Zilber Family Foundation

17. Equity and Inclusion in Milwaukee
Neighborhood Funders Group
May 25, 2017

18. Overview
• Race, class, and place
• Community development in Milwaukee
Moving from silos to collaboration
Building capacity
Strengthening partnerships

19. Race in Milwaukee
Source: University of Virginia, Weldon Cooper Center

20. Poverty in Milwaukee
• Poverty rate, City of Milwaukee: 29%
African-Americans: 39.9%
Hispanics: 31.8%
Non-Hispanic whites: 14.8%
• Milwaukee County: 21.9%
Waukesha County: 5.8%
Washington County: 5.1%
Ozaukee County: 4.3%
Wisconsin: 13.2%
Source: American Community Survey, 2014

21. Racial disparities
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45.00%
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22. Race and poverty in place

23. Place-based work, 2006…

24. Moving from silos to collaboration
Common knowledge
• Brophy Report (2011)
• Hibbs inventory (2012)
• Market Value Analysis (2012)
• Housing Resources resident surveys (2013)
Continuous communication
• Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (2010)
• Neighborhoods Matter Symposium (2011)
• Community Development Alliance (2012)
• Whole Neighborhoods…One Milwaukee Symposium (2013)
• CDA Symposium with Rob Sampson (2015)
• CDA Symposium with Patrick Sharkey (2016)

25. Building capacity

26. Building capacity
NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
CDA

27. Strengthening partnerships
BREW CITY MATCH
TURNING THE CORNER

29. Ed Egnatios
Program Officer
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

30. Lessons Learned from
10 Years in Detroit
1. Building capacity for
social change in
communities of color is
the goal of effective
place-based philanthropy;
2. Not all philanthropic
investment is effective;
3. New Rule #1: DO NO
HARM
4. New Rule #2: Follow
rule #1 religiously
5.When youhave seen
one neighborhood, you
have seen one
neighborhood; but …

31. Lessons Learned from
10 Years in Detroit
6. There is a systemic framework that
guides neighborhood capacity-building
for social change:
• ** Best approach is from NCDI/Frank Omawale
Satterwhite, Ph.D
7. Simple city/complex city: Each has
to have certain functions to work and
each presents unique challenges to
thoseseeking to build capacityfor
socialchange in communities of color:
• ** Work inChicago and Milwaukee/WKKF work in
Detroit, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek
8. City-wide capacity-building is the
adding, restoration and/or better
alignment ofthose keyfunctions to
assist neighborhoods&communities of
colorto thrive.

32. City-Wide
Community Capacity Building
Government
Functions
Business Re-
Investment &
Growth as
Market
Civic
Infrastructure
DataAccess &
Use

33. Advocacy &
Citizen
Planning
Leadership
Development
Cross-sector
Collaboration
Culture & Skills

34. Agenda For Social Change –
2020 & Beyond
• Learning Communities
• Funder Collaboratives
Partnerships For
Systems Change
Community
Transformation For
Racial Equity
• Early childhood Education
• Employment Equity
• Racial Healing and Equity
Replication & Scale
4. Sustainability