“[Research]shows that only about 8-9 percent of grant-making from foundations goes into communities of color…when you take the historical account as to how indigenous communities and how people of color have contributed to building wealth in this country, and the trauma that exists because of how wealth was accumulated, I think that it’s an easy case to make that philanthropic capital should at least be more inclusive of those communities.”
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