Our Social Justice Funder Opportunity Briefs explore complex social justice challenges and investigate specific funding opportunities that address those challenges. We focus on funding areas that are particularly well suited for philanthropy, backed up by research and sustainable practices.
Social Justice Funders Opportunity Briefs
Educational Justice and Sustainability for Rural Schools
This brief discusses the ways in which funders have become newly interested in connecting and investing in rural communities, rural schools, and rural-centered reform. Rural residents must have a central voice in equity-oriented philanthropic efforts. The brief concludes with recommendations for grantmakers concerned with educational equity and well-being in rural communities.
The brief is part of Sillerman’s Civil Rights and Civil Repair project.
Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in Arts and Culture Philanthropy
This brief discusses how grantmakers can redress long-standing inequalities in arts and culture philanthropy by directing more dollars to historically marginalized communities and by adopting strategies that upend traditional funding structures that have excluded artists of color and under-resourced communities.
The brief is part of Sillerman’s Civil Rights and Civil Repair project.
From Beneficiary to Active Agent: How Youth-Led Grantmaking Benefits Young People, Their Communities, and the Philanthropic Sector
This brief focuses on democratic and inclusive youth-led grantmaking in the United States.
The brief is part of Sillerman’s Youth Philanthropy project.
Post-Secondary Education for People in Prison
The first brief in our series is Post-Secondary Education for People in Prison.
This brief is part of Sillerman’s Civil Rights and Civil Repair project.