Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice Critical Issues Forum, Volume 3 Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) July 27, 2011 Moderator Lori Villarosa, Executive Director and Founder of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE), a multiyear project intended to build the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity-building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers. Lori has worked in philanthropy for nearly 20 years and serves on the boards of several foundations and nonprofits, including the Edward W. Hazen Foundation and the Paul J. Aicher Foundation. Prior to launching PRE in 2003, she was a program officer with the C. S. Mott Foundation, where she developed and managed its portfolio on race relations and institutional racism within the U.S. villarosa.jpg Critical Issues Forum Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice http://www.racialequity.org/criticalissues.html How does one best evaluate work aimed at Structural Racism? Includes Essays by: Quinn Delaney Lori Villarosa Maya Wiley john powell Rinku Sen Soya Jung Sally Leiderman Michelle Fine Maggie Potapchuk Interviews with: Western States Center National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Miami Workers Center Critical Issues Forum Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice http://www.racialequity.org/criticalissues.html Continuing the conversation at conferences, including: - Kirwan Institute’s Transforming Race (March 2010) - Council on Foundation’s Annual Conference (April 2010) - Applied Research Center’s Facing Race (September 2010) - Kellogg Foundation’s America Healing (May 2011) More than 200 registrants for today’s webinar Including more than 60 funders, dozens of practitioners/advocates working at national, state and local levels, various intermediaries, evaluators and other consultants, as well as a few folks working in government agencies/municipalities. Critical Issues Forum Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice AGENDA (90 min) Brief Overview – Lori Villarosa, PRE Getting on the Right Road: Upfront Assessment is Key – Maya Wiley, Center for Social Inclusion Using Transformational Goals to Measure Racial Equity Work – Rinku Sen, Applied Research Center Structural Racism and Critical Participatory Evaluation – Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY Q & A (Please write questions as we go and/or raise hand to be un-muted) Next Steps/Close Presenters Maya Wiley, Executive Director and Founder of the Center for Social Inclusion, a policy and advocacy organization which works to transform structural inequity and exclusion into structural inclusion. A civil rights attorney and policy advocate since 1989, Ms. Wiley has worked for the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Open Society Institute. She has contributed to many publications, including Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity, R. Bullard, ed. The MIT Press (2007). She currently serves on the Tides Network Board and on the Advisory Board of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. She has previously served on the Boards of the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota School of Law, Human Rights Watch and the Council on Foreign Relations. Maya-WileyCropped(fullcolor).jpg Presenters Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and Publisher of ColorLines Magazine is a leading figure in the racial justice movement. Rinku has written extensively about immigration, community organizing and women's lives for a wide variety of publications including The Huffington Post, Jack and Jill Politics, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Forbes.com. Her latest book, The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Berrett-Koehler) won the Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal. Rinku is the Vice Chair of the Schott Foundation for Public Education and an Advisory Board member of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. She is the Chair of the Media Consortium and sits on the boards for Restaurant Opportunities Center-United and Working America. rinkusen-300dpi.jpg Presenters Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY has taught at CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Public Science Project. Michelle's research, expert testimony and participatory evaluation projects address questions of racial (in)justice in education, criminal justice and youth policy working with research collectives of urban youth.  The Public Science Project research projects are designed to produce social policy/amicus briefs and organizing materials and “to be of use” in social movements for educational equity and human rights. Recent books include Charter Schools and the Corporate Make-over of Public Education: What's at Stake? (with Michael Fabricant, Teachers College Press, forthcoming), and Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (with Julio Cammarota, Routledge, 2008). Michelle was also a member of the Bedford Hills Research Team which produced, Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum Security Prison for Women (2001,  http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/changingminds.html) rinkusen-400dpi.jpg Why? How? Who? Metrics, Evidence-Based Practices, Outcomes, Impact http://trasi.foundationcenter.org/ (database over 150) http://www.geofunders.org/publi cations.aspx Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field Accountability in multiple directions: constituents as well as funders need to know Who defines goals, progress, indicators? In contested and hostile environment, success of race-based remedies can be as great a political liability as “failure” Structural racism analysis is in itself a form of evaluation Getting on the Right Road: Up-Front Assessment is Key MAYA WILEY Founder and Executive Director, Center for Social Inclusion Critical Issues Forum, Volume 3 rinkusen-400dpi.jpg What does it Mean to Measure the Transformation of Race? Must be multidimensional, examining complex institutional and social relationships, policies and practices. Nonlinear Upfront Housing Transportation Healthcare Civic Participation Employment Education Environment www.centerforsocialinclusion.org The Three Stages Assessment -Where are we trying to go? -How do we think we’ll get there? Performance measurement -Are we on the right track? Impact analysis -Where are we? C:\Documents and Settings\mwiley\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0D2JSTQB\MP900405652[1].jpg www.centerforsocialinclusion.or g Structural Transformation of Race Indicators of systems change: MCj03194520000[1] Meaningful educational opportunity; The ability to form networks and relationships across race; The ability to live in a community with decent housing, schools, amenities and that are sustainable; Democratic participation. C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Mi crosoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RE3SPHK1\MP90 0438475[1].jpg 0088a C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RE3SPHK1\MC900149508[1].wmf C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\CAGCAT10\j0217698.wmf www.centerforsocialinclusion.org Structural Transformation of Race has several indicators of systems change: “Transforming race means transforming the participatory structures of our society so that people of color are helping to shape what those structures are, enter them and have a say.” Example: New Orleans after Katrina NewOrleans2 www.centerforsocialinclusion.or g Race-Conscious Evaluation Tools Assess trends and forces that influence the problem we are trying to solve – including role of race; Identify the multiple institutions who directly and indirectly influence that change – and the racial status quo we must challenge; Evaluate the relationship between actions or inactions of “the field” and the outcomes we can observe. Landscaping in Biloxi www.centerforsocialinclusion.or g Race-Conscious Evaluation Tools CSI uses a 3-dimensional matrix: Intended impacts & unexpected influencers? Forces and trends? Who and what kind of relationships? This is a layered learning approach. Benchmarking should be iterative. http://www.ustream.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/obama-official-photo.jpeg C:\Documents and Settings\mwiley\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\4DMRG1AB\MC90 0281004[1].wmf C:\Documents and Settings\mwiley\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0D2JSTQB\MC910221007[1].jpg www.centerforsocialinclusion.or g Racialized “Systems thinking” Systems work to maintain their stability Systems work to maintain their racial status quo, often without doing so consciously. This will maintain a racialized status quo of disconnected poor communities of color without making a conscious decision to discriminate. 5-Bank-_America home-for-sale-sign dundas_subway_station_wide_train_01 www.centerforsocialinclusion.or g Impactful Evaluation Did we produce some measurable, group based-equity? Did we create systems that not only help produce, but begin to reproduce (as oppose to undermine) that equity over time? Customized Evaluation takes time and thought: Too often, the evaluation seems to be about a more narrow accountability than longer-term effectiveness and success www.centerforsocialinclusion.org Use Transformational Goals to Measure Racial Equity Work RINKU SEN Executive Director,