EPIP NCRP Implicit Bias in Grantmaking Slides - Webinar
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The EPIP webinar on March 16, 2016, addressed the issue of implicit bias in grantmaking, particularly against Native Americans, discussing how subconscious associations can influence philanthropic practices and reinforce stereotypes. Presenters highlighted the historical context of foundation giving to Native American organizations, which remains disproportionately low despite significant social needs. Strategies to counter implicit bias include increasing internal diversity, using education and convening to raise awareness, and actively engaging with diverse communities to ensure equitable grantmaking.
![Voices from the Field: Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans in
Philanthropy
Top reasons often cited by Foundations about low rates of
foundation giving to Native Americans or why they don’t increase
grantmaking:
• “The Native American population is too small.”
• “We have made grants to tribes and Native communities previously and they
have not gone well.”
• “There are too many tribes and Native American communities, it is difficult to
know where to start, I don’t know how to reach out to any groups.”
• “It seems like the issues and challenges are so immense and complex that there
is nothing that can be done to solve them and certainly there is not a lot of
impact that my limited portfolio can make.”
• “We do not have a specific Native American grants portfolio…our priorities are
other issues like education, economic development, health...”
• “We are already funding one [or a few] Native American groups.”
• “Due to the instability of Native American political leadership it seems difficult to
support sustained policy or systems change.”
• “Why aren’t the tribes that have casinos funding Native American projects?”
• “We don’t receive proposals from Native American groups.”
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![Voices from the Field…Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans in
Philanthropy
• “American Indians are mostly invisible to philanthropy, and where there
is some semblance of awareness, that there is definitely implicit bias.
Generally Indians are examined in one of two ways, that they are either 1)
relics of the past or 2) the study of them is like a tourist visiting a culture.”-
Michael Roberts (Tlingit), President of First Nations Development Institute
• “The current myth of wealthy Indians not needing help relates directly to
misguided media presenting only information about [Native] Nations that
have done well financially and have casinos. The other myth is that we no
longer exist. And if we do exist, it is easy to ignore our plight. Implicit
bias carries all the stereotypes and subconsciously they influence
one’s actions. I often see/feel that bias even when it is unintended or
sublimely disguised.” -Rick Williams (Oglala Lakota), former President of
the American Indian College Fund
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EPIP NCRP Implicit Bias in Grantmaking Slides - Webinar
- 1. IMPLICIT BIAS IN GRANTMAKING EPIP Webinar March 16, 2016 EPIP Host: Biz Ghormley Presenters: Jeanné Isler, Crystal Echo Hawk, Rachel Godsil
- 2. 2 Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) is a national network of foundation professionals, social entrepreneurs and other change makers who strive for excellence in the practice of philanthropy.
- 3. 3 We provide a platform for our community to: Connect with others Learn & practice leadership skills Inspire emerging ideas in the social sector
- 4. Get in touch! Please reach out with any questions or to learn more about membership! Biz Ghormley biz@epip.org Director of Operations & Member Services
- 5. What’s Next? • Next EPIP Webinar! • Indie Philanthropy: Stories from the field of Reimagined Funding – March 30 at 3pm ET • All Events • epip.org/events • EPIP Annual conference • September 13-15, 2016 in Baltimore, MD • http://www.epip.org/2016_national_conference
- 6. Housekeeping • Use the question box for • Technical difficulties • Comments • Content questions for Q&A • Polls and questions are anonymous • Use #EPIPwebinar to join the conversation on social media • This webinar will be recorded • Complete the post-webinar survey, please!
- 7. Speakers Crystal Echo Hawk, Echo Hawk Consulting Jeanné L.J. Isler, NCRP Rachel Godsil, Perception Institute
- 8. Implicit Bias in Grantmaking March 16, 2016 | 4-5 PM EST @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 9. Upcoming NCRP Events • Early April – REPORT: New York Community Trust Philamplify assessment • April 12-14 – WEB SERIES: Fundraising Trifecta: Real Costs, Foundations, & Individual Donors (nonprofit members only) • April 20 – WEBINAR: Faith & Social Justice • May 3 – EVENT: Impact Awards • May TBD – WEBINAR: Putting the Community in Community Foundations @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 10. Engage with us on social media #ImplicitBias @EPIP @NCRP @j_lachapel @RDGperception @CrystalEchoHawk @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 11. Agenda • Introductions • The Science: How It Works • Implicit Bias in Philanthropy • Implicit Bias against Native Americans • Understanding Implicit Bias & Race • Useful Tools • Q&A @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 12. Presenters Crystal Echo Hawk President & CEO Echo Hawk Consulting Rachel Godsil Co-Founder & Director of Research, Perception Institute Jeanné Isler Field Director National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 13. Making Meaning The subconscious makes sense of what we perceive by: 1. Filling in gaps 2. Sorting into categories 3. Creating associations Together, these processes create schemas which become habits. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 15. Definition: Implicit Bias Implicit bias refers to the brain’s automatic, instant association of stereotypes or attitudes toward particular groups, without our conscious awareness. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 16. How Do We Know We Have Bias? Implicit Association Test (IAT) @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 17. Tom Meyer (White) Tom Meyer (Black) ¤ “generally good writer but needs to work on” ¤ “has potential” ¤ “good analytic skills” ¤ 2.9/7 spelling grammar errors were found ¤ 4.1/6 technical writing errors found ¤ “needs lots of work” ¤ “can’t believe he went to NYU” ¤ “average at best” ¤ 5.8/7 spelling grammar errors found ¤ 4.9/6 technical writing errors found The Race Effect (2014 Nextions study) @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 18. Race and Heart Disease Treatment @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 19. Implicit Bias in Behavior: Microaggressions @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 20. Definition: Racial Anxiety Racial anxiety is the brain’s stress response before or during inter-racial interactions. – Experienced by people of color as anxiety that they will be the subject of discrimination and hostile or distant treatment. – Experienced by whites as anxiety that they will be assumed to be racist and will be met with distrust or hostility. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 21. Experiencing Racial Anxiety People experiencing racial anxiety often engage in less eye contact, have shorter interactions, and generally seem awkward à Missteps in communication • Awkward attempts to connect • Control failures à Avoidance à In education, teachers often give students of color less critical feedback (Harber et al., 2010) @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 22. Race Talk Challenges to race communications: • Deficit-focused • Potential behavioral effects of implicit bias, racial anxiety, and stereotype threat. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 23. Role of Disparity Data • To understand need and set policy agendas. • To identify where institutional practices may be infused with bias. • Should not frame communications. • Schemas and narratives are too entrenched for the information to have the effect we intend. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 24. Discussion How does Implicit Bias show up in your foundation? @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 25. Implicit Bias and Our Foundations • Small Organizations • Black-led Organizations • Gender norms @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 27. Implicit Bias: Top Stereotypes About Native Americans Negative Stereotypes 1. All Native Americans are alcoholics. 2. Native Americans are lazy, corrupt and anything that they try to manage or lead is usually a disaster. 3. All tribes have casinos and are getting rich. 4. American Indians receive “free” benefits and privileges from the government. 5. Native Americans overreact to their likenesses being used in school celebrations or as team mascots. 6. Native Americans have too many issues to be helped. “Positive” Stereotypes 1. Native Americans are spiritual and wise. 2. American Indians are animal lovers, tree-huggers, and sun- worshippers. 3. Native Americans are all dancers and storytellers. 4. Native Americans are one unified group of people that are share all the same characteristics and beliefs @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 28. Philanthropy and Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans • Despite the fact that Native Americans consistently score the lowest on almost every social indicator in the country, foundation giving focused on Native Americans was 0.3% of total grants awarded in 2009 totaling $68 million. (The Foundation Center and Native Americans in Philanthropy) • According to the Foundation Center, giving to Native Americans increased to $89 million and giving to Indigenous peoples to $90 million in 2012. Moderate gains (0.39-0.8%) but still represents less than 1% of total foundation giving. • None of the top 50 grant recipients for ethnic and racial minorities in 2012 included a Native American-led organization or majority-serving Native American populations • Less than 25 known Native Americans in mid to upper levels of management and executive leadership of foundations and no known board members at top 50 foundations. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 29. Voices from the Field: Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans in Philanthropy Top reasons often cited by Foundations about low rates of foundation giving to Native Americans or why they don’t increase grantmaking: • “The Native American population is too small.” • “We have made grants to tribes and Native communities previously and they have not gone well.” • “There are too many tribes and Native American communities, it is difficult to know where to start, I don’t know how to reach out to any groups.” • “It seems like the issues and challenges are so immense and complex that there is nothing that can be done to solve them and certainly there is not a lot of impact that my limited portfolio can make.” • “We do not have a specific Native American grants portfolio…our priorities are other issues like education, economic development, health...” • “We are already funding one [or a few] Native American groups.” • “Due to the instability of Native American political leadership it seems difficult to support sustained policy or systems change.” • “Why aren’t the tribes that have casinos funding Native American projects?” • “We don’t receive proposals from Native American groups.” @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 30. Voices from the Field…Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans in Philanthropy • “American Indians are mostly invisible to philanthropy, and where there is some semblance of awareness, that there is definitely implicit bias. Generally Indians are examined in one of two ways, that they are either 1) relics of the past or 2) the study of them is like a tourist visiting a culture.”- Michael Roberts (Tlingit), President of First Nations Development Institute • “The current myth of wealthy Indians not needing help relates directly to misguided media presenting only information about [Native] Nations that have done well financially and have casinos. The other myth is that we no longer exist. And if we do exist, it is easy to ignore our plight. Implicit bias carries all the stereotypes and subconsciously they influence one’s actions. I often see/feel that bias even when it is unintended or sublimely disguised.” -Rick Williams (Oglala Lakota), former President of the American Indian College Fund @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 31. Voices from the Field: Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans in Philanthropy MANY, but NOT all Foundations, seem to operate from a deficit position or a place of implicit bias when it comes to funding Native Americans • Some of the “reasons for not giving are real. However, the question that is not asked, is ‘How do you deal with these issues to consistently create successful projects?’ The underlying premise is of course that the “Indians failed” when in reality it is the Foundations that failed to understand and learn different ways to create success.” (Rick Williams) • “If these are real reasons, and that failure to fund Indian Country is a result, then all I ask is that Funders hold all nonprofits to the same standard, and paint grantees of every race or sovereign nation equally. I can say that I have never heard the phrase uttered by a funder to the effect of ‘Yeah, we funded a white nonprofit once that failed to deliver, so we are not going to fund white folks again…” (Michael Roberts) @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 32. Voices from the Field: Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans in Philanthropy “In many areas of this country, Native Americans are quite literally an invisible community and I think in those cases it's likely a symptom of ‘out of sight out of mind.’ Even when a foundation wants to address disparities in communities of color, when you look at data Native Americans are completely left out. Data is so often displayed for Black, White, Latino and sometimes (though not always) Asian; it is incredibly rare you see Native Americans included. So unless you pause to ask, "who's missing?," and make the concerted effort to ensure all people of color are included it can be easy to have an implicit bias against Native Americans.” -Jasmine Hall Ratliff, Program Officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 33. • Examples of foundations “doing it right” and/or are taking positive steps to build positive relationships and to increase investment in Indian Country – the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Walmart Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, Marguerite A. Cargill Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Kalliopeia Foundation, Paul G. Allen Foundation, Otto Bremer Foundation and many others… • Philanthropy is increasingly data-driven, data and the way we look at issues needs to move beyond just the lens of White, African American and Latino. It needs to be inclusive of Native Americans and other populations and groups as well • Racial equity, healthy equity, diversity must truly be inclusive: We must be intentional • Move from a deficit model to an asset-based strategy in Indian Country • Build partnerships with tribes that do philanthropic giving around similar issues and geography. Ex. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has given over $300 million in grants to Native Americans and diverse communities and $500 million in low- interest loans to tribes. • Reach out to Native organizations and intermediary funders like Native Americans in Philanthropy, First Nations Development Institute, Potlatch Fund, Native American Rights Fund to learn, identify projects to support. Strategies to Overcome Implicit Bias Towards Native Americans @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 34. Combatting Bias Use convening and education power to raise awareness Explore your foundation’s organizational bias Consider whether data about disparities could be due to implicit bias Include more diverse stakeholders in decision making @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 35. • First step: explore, identify, acknowledge and act on implicit bias • Seek education, training, engage, be intentional, challenge and overcome bias • Set goals to increase engagement, relationship and partnership building,and grantmaking in diverse communities • Consistently evaluate progress and adjust strategies as needed Tools to Overcome Bias and Engage Differently @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 36. Tools to Overcome Bias and Engage Differently Don’t Re-Invent the Wheel: Reach Out, Engage, & Learn • There are endless national, regional and local experts and organizations representing diverse communities that can serve as trusted “guides” and experts who can assist with introductions, knowledge building, networks and mentoring on how best to engage with diverse communities and issues. Convene, Listen and Engage • Instead of guessing or assuming how best to serve and work in diverse communities, GO TO THE SOURCE. These communities will share their: priorities, needs, challenges, the best ways to meet communities where they are at, to conduct outreach, make investments, build capacity, mitigate risk and achieve success that is right for their community. Through that process you can also find ways to align that work with your foundations values and mission. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 37. Advocate for Increased Internal Diversity • Challenge your institution to increase the diversity of its board, executive leadership, management and staff Set Goals for Meaningful Change for Increased Education, Diversity, Engagement and Grantmaking • Success will be measured by the true change we are seeking. Diversity within and externally through the relationships, increased grantmaking, voices and perspectives that it uplifts and supports that reflect diverse communities and true equity will be the measures. Tools to Overcome Bias and Engage Differently @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 38. The Science of Equality Evidence-Based Solutions: • “De-bias”: efforts to reduce implicit bias (Devine et al., 2012) - Break the prejudice habit • Bias override: break the link between bias and behavior (Kang et al., 2012) - Changing systems and practices @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 39. Awareness Test (NOTE: Click on the video, wait a beat, and then click here if video doesn't load) @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 40. In the work for the long haul • Preventing exhaustion and cynicism. • Developing resilience tools. • The particular challenges if facing our own marginalization @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 41. Questions & Answer Use the “Q&A” ( ) icon in the upper right corner. @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 42. • Groups Working on Implicit Bias: Perception Institute, Project Implicit, Kirwan Institute, Haas Institute, Jerry Kang, Within Our Lifetime Network • Funder Affinity Groups: Native Americans in Philanthropy, Hispanics in Philanthropy, ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Funders for LGBTQ Issues and many, many more… • National Organizations: National Congress of American Indians, National Council of La Raza, NAACP, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and many other examples of diverse communities and issues… • “Implicit Bias and Native Americans: Philanthropy’s Hidden Minority,” Responsive Philanthropy, NCRP, Spring 2015, by Crystal Echo Hawk • “Responsive Philanthropy: Special Issue on Implicit Bias”, NCRP, Spring 2015 • “Chris Rock criticized for not looking beyond black and white in Oscars performance,” LA Times, March 13, 2016,by Meredith Blake • “Fertile Ground: Planting the Seeds of Native American Nutrition and Health Funders Roundtable Final Report,” December 2015, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, American Heart Association and Echo Hawk Consulting Resources @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias
- 43. Social Media Question “How will you take on #ImplicitBias in #philanthropy?” Tweet @EPIP & @NCRP
- 44. Thank you! Make sure to fill out the feedback survey! @EPIP @NCRP #ImplicitBias