Jennifer and Peter Buffett and their NoVo Foundation, founded in 2006, have announced they have finished their study meant to help them understand how to spend $90 million in grants to local and regional groups taking on “the deep systemic, societal and institutional challenges” faced by girls and young women of color. NPQ’s Shafaq Hasan wrote about the start of this study period.
To figure out what their priorities and approach should be, the foundation took the all-too-rare approach of talking to those meant to benefit. Foundation staffers spoke with more than 300 girls in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, New Mexico, Alabama, and Georgia, “regions in the country that have remained largely isolated from philanthropic attention and from the chance to engage in national conversations on gender and racial justice.”
[For more of this story, written by Ruth McCambridge, go to https://nonprofitquarterly.org...g-women-girls-color/]
Comments (0)