Resource Library
Funders for Family Leadership brings together some of the most committed and dedicated philanthropists to amplify family leaders and parent organizers. Along the way, some key resources have been identified and shared to support this work.
Our resources are here to inform your partnership and grant making practices with parent leaders. Use the tabs below to navigate to the bank of resources pertaining to your topic of interest. There is a range of different types of materials, including research, frameworks, reflections, and more to aid your organization.
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Philanthropic Practices & Philosophy
Dear Philanthropy: These Are the Fires of Anti-Black Racism
How philanthropists can harness the power of social movements by being nimble, responsive, strategic, and driven by a calling for change like the movements that inspire them.
Say Their Names: Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Dion Johnson
Their names are the history of their neighborhoods. Acting locally starts with these resources for local, impactful change.
Operationalizing Equity
This report looks at the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s decades-long journey to promote race equity and inclusion, and how other funders can embed the values of equity into their programming and operations.
Ignite the Power of Your Philanthropy for Equity and Justice
This framework allows your organization to evaluate how you’re building, sharing, and wielding power for maximum impact on issues and communities you care about.
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lense: A Practical Guide
This guide provides grantmakers with reflections, frameworks and tools built from the direct experience of activists and funders for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting.
Hope is Not a Strategy for Change
This article shares frameworks for thinking about change-making, writing actionable plans to move forward, and capturing the power of your rage.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
This article highlights the ways that racial bias—both personal and institutional, conscious and unconscious—creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process, and how to counter it in your organization.
Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table
This research illustrates the racial disparity in today’s funding environment and outlines how population-level impact cannot happen without funding more leaders of color.
Acting Boldly in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Grassroots Organizations Funded by the Raising Child Care Fund
This article highlights the methods and successes of grassroots child care leadership focused on access, equity, and funding frontline organizers.
Change Philanthropy Resource Hub
This resource bank helps you get started with equity, diversity, and inclusion frameworks for teams of any size and anywhere in the process of untangling systemic racism in their organization.
Equity Practices
Operationalizing Equity
In this report from the Casey Foundation, learn how tying race equity to an organization’s mission can help staff shift their priorities over time.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
This article highlights the ways that racial bias—both personal and institutional, conscious and unconscious—creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process, and how to counter it in your organization.
Advocating and Investing in Equity For Immigrant Families
How investing in immigrant families serves the entire community, where to start, and resources to guide you.
Young Parents Speak Out: Barriers, Bias, and Broken Systems
Learn about the barriers and discrimination young parents face, how they have overcome them, and the hidden labor that bear the burden of institutional blind eyes.
Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table
This research illustrates the racial disparity in today’s funding environment and outlines how population-level impact cannot happen without funding more leaders of color.
Embrace Race Resources
Explore this resource bank to find approachable, thorough, and broad-reaching resources about how to talk about race in your organizations.
Latino Parent Voices: What Our Families Need Now
The nation’s most comprehensive study of COVID-19 impacts on Latino communities, how policy makers should respond, and the real stories behind the real solutions.
Racial Justice
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
This article highlights the ways that racial bias—both personal and institutional, conscious and unconscious—creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process, and how to counter it in your organization.
Embrace Race Resources
Explore this resource bank to find approachable, thorough, and broad-reaching resources about how to talk about race in your organizations.
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practical Guide
This guide provides grantmakers with reflections, frameworks and tools built from the direct experience of activists and funders for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting.
Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table
This research illustrates the racial disparity in today’s funding environment and outlines how population-level impact cannot happen without funding more leaders of color.
Verified Bail Funds
These bail funds are verified and are supporting people on the ground fighting in the movement for Black Lives.
Parent Leadership
Young Parents Speak Out: Barriers, Bias, and Broken Systems
Learn about the barriers and discrimination young parents face, how they have overcome them, and the hidden labor that bear the burden of institutional blind eyes.
United Parent Leaders Action Network – Publications
Growing Together spoke with more than 100 young adult parents, largely young mothers of color, about their parenting joys, what makes it hard to be young parents leading their families, and what they think needs to change.
Stepping Up and Speaking Out: The Evolution of Parent Leadership in Michigan
This resource is about the unspoken ingredients, the learnings from parents, providers and administrators in Michigan, and examples of strategies that support the development of a parent leadership system.
Supporting Father Involvement and Co-parenting Webinar Series
This free webinar series explores how early childhood programs, home visitors, health and mental health providers, and community agencies can increase their effectiveness in supporting father engagement and co-parenting.
Quality Counts California – Family Engagement
Raising the quality of early learning and care, find resources and toolkits here.
Covid-19
UPLAN’s Recommendations for the Federal Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
The United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN) outlines their calls for equity and justice from our national elected officials and policy leaders.
Parent Leadership and Voice in Education during COVID-19
Follow this discussion between parent leaders on the changes, goals, and adaptations to education during COVID-19 (Zoom webinar, 1hr 53min).
ECFC weekly COVID-19 Call for EC Funders: The Pandemic’s Impact on Families
The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative discusses the impact of the pandemic on families as of May 2020 on this video (Zoom webinar via Youtube, 1hr.)
Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development (RAPID) – Early Childhood
These reports from Rapid-EC track an ongoing national survey of households with children ages 0-5, designed to gather essential information on the needs, health promoting behaviors, and well-being of children and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Impact Survey
This survey asked questions of over 400 First 5 families, while data from this survey will guide Contra Costa County priorities for direct service and advocacy, as we look for the best ways to support children and families through this public health pandemic.
Acting Boldly in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Grassroots Organizations Funded by the Raising Child Care Fund
This article highlights the methods and successes of grassroots child care leadership focused on access, equity, and funding frontline organizers.
Family Engagement
Amplifying Family Voice to Advance Equitable Outcomes for Young Children
This report captures findings from a national and Ohio-based environmental scan on family engagement strategies in early childhood systems.
Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement
This report, commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York, highlights the significant role that family engagement plays in the educational system and provides recommendations for building and sustaining effective family-school partnerships.
Cultivating a Community of Champions for Children: Through Transformative Family Engagement
This report captures the insights and highlights of successful approaches from 30 funded projects in 17 states as part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Family Engagement initiative.
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