Board of Directors Diversity Equity and Inclusion Board Blogs: Updates on WA Women’s Foundation’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Work September 21, 2018 by Aki Shibuya A recent article by Dorian Burton and Brian Barnes published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review begins as follows: “Historical injustices – perpetuated by racial and cultural conflicts and exacerbated by a lack of empathy – are at the heart of America’s growing economic, social, and political inequalities. Nowhere is this gap of authentic empathy […] Read more »
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategic Planning Transforming Together 2020: Details on New Grant Making Criteria September 14, 2018 by Aki Shibuya Our Pooled Fund grant making cycle begins in September of each year, and our Letter of Inquiry process will open September 24. As you know, through our Pooled Fund, our members currently invest in the five areas which we believe are the foundational elements of a thriving community – Arts & Culture, Education, the Environment, […] Read more »
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Letters from the President Letter from the President: A Moment of Opportunity August 9, 2016 by Aki Shibuya “[The summer] brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation.” Esteemed legal advocate Marian Wright Edelman began her recent Child Watch® column, Unfinished Business, with the quote above. Though it is an excerpt from a report by the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders (the “Kerner Commission Report”) […] Read more »
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Educational Programming Getting Close: Reflections, Questions and Resources from “Just Mercy” Book Discussion May 20, 2016 by Aki Shibuya “Criminal justice in America sometimes seems more criminal than just — replete with error, malfeasance, racism and cruel, if not unusual, punishment, coupled with stubborn resistance to reform and a failure to learn from even its most glaring mistakes.” – Bryan Stevenson in Just Mercy. On May 18, I gathered with a group […] Read more »
