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Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Efforts: Key Learning and Insights from Communities and Partners — 2023

September 1, 2023

Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation ™ (TRHT) is a comprehensive, multi-year national and community-based process to bring about transformational and sustainable change. Through TRHT, the Foundation (WKKF) partners with and supports local efforts to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism in communities and institutions. They work to replace the deeply held belief system that fuels racism with one that sees the inherent value of all people. TRHT communities engage in narrative change, racial healing and relationship building as part of an approach that undergirds efforts to transform society through the dismantling of institutional racism by specifically addressing separation, law, and the economy. WKKF engaged over 170 national partners in 2015 and 2016 and, with them, developed and piloted the TRHT framework and process. The following year WKKF provided grants to plan and implement TRHT to fourteen communities across the country. Each community determined its priorities and course of action in implementing the TRHT framework. This resource shares key insights and learnings from the experiences and ongoing work of those communities.

Grantmakers for Education New Mexico Study Tour: Building the Future for Students in College and Career

August 14, 2023

This past spring, a group of education grantmakers met in New Mexico to tour the the postsecondary pathways programs in the rural Four Corners area. The study tour was arranged by EdFunders' Postsecondary Access and Attainment Impact Group. This report provides information on college and career pathways and highlights the experiences and learnings from the study tour.

Documento de estado del arte sobre metodologías, estrategias o instrumentos de medición de los aspectos en los que se enfocan los proyectos educativos apoyados por la WKKF

August 7, 2023

Este entregable incluye la investigación y el análisis de metodologías, estrategias e instrumentos de evaluación en tres dominios: resultados de aprendizaje, desarrollo socioemocional y pensamiento crítico de niños y adolescentes. Fue diseñado para ser consultado en una plataforma digital interactiva que permite realizar consultas por tipo de herramienta, dominio y/o país, así como por texto o palabra clave, permite la incorporación, edición y eliminación de nuevos archivos, para que pueda actualizarse continuamente.

Documento de estado del arte sobre metodologías, estrategias o instrumentos de medición de los aspectos en los que se enfocan los proyectos educativos apoyados por la WKKF Anexos

August 7, 2023

Este entregable incluye la investigación y el análisis de metodologías, estrategias e instrumentos de evaluación en tres dominios: resultados de aprendizaje, desarrollo socioemocional y pensamiento crítico de niños y adolescentes. Fue diseñado para ser consultado en una plataforma digital interactiva que permite realizar consultas por tipo de herramienta, dominio y/o país, así como por texto o palabra clave, permite la incorporación, edición y eliminación de nuevos archivos, para que pueda actualizarse continuamente.

Genealogy Research at MDAH

July 18, 2023

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History encourages both Mississippi residents and those who live outside of the state to utilize our resources when researching family history. MDAH provides access to death records, marriage records, census records, county records, court cases and records, Dawes Rolls, Enumeration of Educable Children lists, contracts from the Freedman's Bureau, and military records.MDAH wants to assist those looking to trace their family genealogy. With only minimal information, you can discover roots long buried by time, separation, and migration.

Strategic Communication Planning Hub

July 13, 2023

The Strategic Communication Planning Hub by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a free online resource that provides valuable tools and insights for strategic communication planning. It includes guidance on content writing, digital strategies and tactics, message development, communication strategies for change and more. It also features an interactive tool where you can build your own communication plan.

Fellowships Alumni Network Study: The Role of Networks in Creating Social Impact

June 29, 2023

The Fellowship Alumni Network Study is a collaborative research initiative that brought over 20 partner organizations together to understand how fellowship programs can support their alumni to drive positive social change. Facilitated by IREX and supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the consortium co-designed survey, interview, and focus group templates are designed to facilitate data collection around the following research questions:To what extent do alumni who are part of a fellowship network contribute to changes at different levels of society (e.g., individual, institutions, community, and systems)?How do networks support alumni to contribute to changes at different levels of society?

Embracing the pilot mindset: A guide to use pilots to improve DEI initiative success

June 28, 2023

Many diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives require a careful orchestration of long-term strategy planning, leadership and employee buy-in, and behavioral and mindset shifts. Thinkabout a time you had to stop or modify an initiative midway because it was not working. What went wrong? What could you have done to prevent it? DEI initiatives that use a pilot approach are two-to-three times more likely to succeed than those that try to implement all at once without testing and learning. An initiative pilot helps you test out an idea to gain the necessary feedback and buy-in from your organization before implementation. This guide, created through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Expanding Equity program, will take you through the process of developing pilots for initiatives. It include examples and advice from companies that used a piloting mindset when planning, implementing and assessing initiatives.

Diversifying Suppliers, Vendors and Business Partners as Part of DEI Strategy: Beacon Capital Partners Case Study

June 28, 2023

This case study is part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Expanding Equity program, which helps workplaces become more racially equitable places of opportunity. The program supports and inspires companies to take action using four pillars: Attract, Belong, Promote and Influence. Each pillar offers unique opportunities for advancing racial equity, diversity and inclusion in companies. This case study lifts up actions from the Influence pillar, which focuses on advancing racial equity through a company's products, services or relationships externally.At Beacon Capital Partners, having a workplace that prioritizes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) means being intentional with choosing external business partners who share those same values. The firm recognized that United States' real estate industry as a whole is an overwhelmingly White, male-dominated business. They initially looked at its recruitment practices to expand their DEI efforts. In doing so, they learned that creating a space of inclusion and belonging went beyond recruiting practices and should also include all the firm's functional engagements. The firm works with numerous vendors and suppliers in its work and saw an opportunity to expand business partner diversity by working with firms holding Minority Women Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (MWDBE) certification and increasing its total spend on diverse vendors and suppliers at its properties. This led Beacon Capital to pilot its business partner diversity initiative, which lead to an increase in their total property spend on diverse vendors and suppliers from about 4% of controllable operating expense spending with diverse business partners in the pilot properties in 2017 to around 27% of controllable operating expense spending in 2022.

The Illusion of Parent Choice: Lessons Learned from BPC’s Parent Survey Series

May 10, 2023

In October 2019, BPC conducted its first national survey of parents in hopes of learning, "Do parents prefer child care closer to home or work?" We wanted to know how finding child care (the supply) impacts parents and their choices. Our first survey revealed parents prefer child care closer to home, but our survey raised more questions. Why do parents choose certain child care arrangements? What factors are most important to parents?As BPC set to investigate in early 2020, the pandemic shifted our focus to COVID-19's impact on child care, including closures, increased safety measures, and how remote work impacted the need for child care.

Racial Healing Affinity Groups: Embodied Transformation in the Workplace

April 30, 2023

The Racial Healing Affinity Group Knowledge Product details the three essential components that allowed for the initiative to thrive: Convening a Wisdom Council, Creating a Multi-Racial Facilitator Council, and Developing Sustainable Affinity Groups. Under each of these sections you'll see a summary of the role each part played in creating the RHAG model. Below that will be a list of recommended logistics and structure, success and insights, and pitfalls and sensitive areas to support any organization or group in creating similar racial healing spaces. In addition to these text resources, you will also receive an interactive video and curated list of affinity group resources.

Industry Actions for Racial Equity –Investment Management

April 25, 2023

This workplace transformation guide considers the state of racial equity, diversity and inclusion (REDI) for the investment management industry and shares insights, actions, common pitfalls and examples from leading organizations that are part of the Expanding Equity (EE) program network. The guide recommends actions companies can take, organized by the four pillars – or areas of opportunity – of the EE program, where the investment management industry can advance REDI, including a mini-case study from a peer company:Attract – Attracting and hiring professionals of color into the company to increase representation at all levels of the organizationCase study from Värde Partners on creating entry-level pathwaysBelong – Ensuring that all professionals, regardless of racial/ethnic group identity, feel respected and can be successfulCase study from KKR on launching an inclusion network and expanding an Inclusion & Diversity CouncilPromote - Ensuring that professionals of color feel supported and have the same advancement opportunities as White professionalsCase study from BlackRock on implementing a sponsorship program for Black and Latinx managing directors and directorsInfluence – Advancing racial equity through an organization's products, services or relationships in the industries and communities in which it operatesCase study from Vista Equity Partners on launching an external board program to source diverse board candidates for its portfolio companies