DEI Resources

Materials from MCF’s Rural Urban Bridging for Impact (RUBI) initiative support growth around bridging rural and urban spaces.

View the results of recent benchmarking surveys of corporate community affairs programs and corporate foundations in Minnesota.

Read reflections, frameworks and tools for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting.

Join a conversation with foundation leaders who are working to advance racial equity in rural communities and small cities in Greater Minnesota.

This video explores what it will take for us to diminish racism and combat white supremacy in our state.

This report asked participants to identify their role within their foundation, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race / ethnicity, and disability status.

The attainment of race equity requires us to examine all four levels on which racism operates (personal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural), recognize our role in enduring inequities, and

A tool for advancing racial equity by focusing on internal organizational work to address white culture.

Learn about the essential community resources that are Minnesota's nonprofits led by or primarily serving BIPOC.

Minnesota is in the top philanthropic states, yet we continue to have some of the largest gaps in health, education, housing and jobs for BIPOC communities.

Whether or not you’re an environmental funder, striving toward equity requires an understanding of environmental racism and environmental justice. 

A model for donor collaboration for systems change that learns from and inspires others and generates learning for the broader philanthropic community.

This report presents a process to design an evaluation framework that prioritizes a community's own values and documents a legacy that perpetuates generations from now.

The resources in Fund the People's Talent Justice Toolkit can be used by nonprofits and funders to increase their investments in talent justice at all stages of the nonprofit career lifecycle.

Evaluation has the ability to contribute to equity and it must embrace definitions of rigor and validity that reflect the complexity of the work in which many are engaged.

Taking time out for self-assessment and learning is an important part of the organizational cycle of planning, action and reflection.

MCF offers this PowerPoint deck as a tool for educating your colleagues, staff, board or community members about the Principles for Philanthropy.