Thank you for your interest in the Thrive Not Survive: Young Black Women in Fundraising and Philanthropy panel! Bring Your Own Chair and Domprofit collaborated to bring you a panel focused on young Black women's experiences in the fundraising and philanthropy sectors. As more attention is being paid to DEI, there can be a tendency to focus on the most visible employees at an organization or company. However, the journey to senior leadership has to start somewhere. Informed by the Building Movement Project's Race to Lead series, which seeks to understand why there are still so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector, this panel took a look at how young Black women are experiencing the broader nonprofit sector and what can be done to allow them to thrive, not survive the sector.
We spoke about several resources during the webinar and have listed them below! You will also find the panelists' bios and contact for further connection as they are all interested in continuing this conversation further and supporting other young Black women in the sector and their co-conspirators.
Encouragement:
"A Love Letter to Black Women Who Have Always Labored For Our Democracy"
https://theglowup.theroot.com/a-love-letter-to-black-women-who-have-always-labored-f-1844961865
"How to Keep Women of Color from Leaving the Fundraising Sector"
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/How-to-Keep-Women-of-Color/247544
Books:
Decolonizing Wealth
https://www.decolonizingwealth.com/thebook
The Memo
https://www.mindaharts.com/book/
Drop the Ball
http://tiffanydufu.com/drop-the-ball
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded
Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/43qme5pk9780252043451.html
The Heart of Woman
https://bookshop.org/books/the-heart-of-a-woman-9780375500725/9780812980325
Me and White Supremacy
https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
Hood Feminism
https://bookshop.org/books/hood-feminism-notes-from-the-women-that-a-movement-forgot/9780525560548
When We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Podcasts:
Bring Your Own Chair is a podcast featuring the journeys and stories from young Black women and other women of color. BYOC was created as a space for us to share our expertise and consider the impact our intersecting identities have had on our lives thus far. Make sure to check out the episode with panelist Dominique Calixte!
https://www.khayriyyah.com/byoc-podcast-links
The Impossible Network Podcast Episode w/ Yvonne Moore
https://theimpossiblenetwork.com/podcast/yvonne-moore/
Nonprofit Lowdown by Rhea Wong
Salary Negotiation:
American Association of University Women (AAUW) is a nonprofit organization focused on gender equity organizes free online salary negotiation workshops with resources that help you with career advancement generally as well.
Self-Care:
Ethel's Club is a social and wellness digital platform designed to celebrate and create healing spaces for people of color.
Connection, Community, and Resource Groups:
The Building Movement Project supports and pushes the nonprofit sector to tackle the most significant social issues of our times by developing research, creating tools and training materials, providing guidance, and facilitating networks for social change.
Black Philanthropy Month observed every August, is a global celebration and concerted campaign to elevate African-descent giving. Created by Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland and the Pan-African Women's Philanthropy Network (PAWPNet), BPM launched in 2011 to commemorate the United Nations Year and Decade of People of African Descent.
http://www.blackphilanthropymonth.com/
The Rooted Collaborative is a global community focused on the holistic evolution and advancement of women leaders of color in the social impact sector. Its goal is to help you cultivate your unique personal, professional and wellness goals that will help you design and live a purpose-driven life.
https://therootedcollaborative.com/
Black Philanthropic Network is a group of eleven regional associations of Blacks in philanthropy with a shared focus of supporting philanthropy in Black communities. Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) maintains the network through coordinated activities, sharing data and information, and supporting regular communications and/or convening among the regional groups.
https://www.abfe.org/programs/networking-and-convening/black-philanthropic-network/
Women in Development is a network to empower, connect, and engage women in a community that fosters professional growth and leadership while advancing the development field with a chapter in Boston and New York City.
Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy celebrates, inspires and champions women of color in fundraising, philanthropy and related fields through building community and providing unparalleled personal and professional development resources.
YNPN is an organization that activates emerging leaders and helps them acquire the skills and awareness they need to be effective changemakers.
Trust-Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year, peer-to-peer funder initiative to address the inherent power imbalances between foundations and nonprofits.
https://trustbasedphilanthropy.org/
Community Centric Fundraising is a fundraising model that is grounded in equity and social justice.
https://communitycentricfundraising.org/
Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
Fellowships:
Challenge Detroit cultivates diverse, innovative, community-minded leaders from the city and across the country, fostering their talents to support local initiatives that move Detroit forward.
https://www.challengedetroit.org/
Institute for Nonprofit Practice’s mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and sustainable. They have a number of fellowships geared toward professionals of color in the broader nonprofit sector.
http://www.nonprofitpractice.org/
The urban consulate lists over a dozen fellowships on the page below. http://www.urbanconsulate.com/fellowships
● Ford Foundation / Art of Change Fellows
● Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Fellows
● Detroit Revitalization Fellows
● Urban Innovation Fellowship / Drexel University
● Tumml
● Citizen University / Civic Seminary
Panelist Bios:
Cyronica Simone: Cyronica is a Nonprofit professional, relationship builder with a passion for connecting others to causes they are passionate about. She lives in Texas with her husband and blended family of four boys. Cyronica is a Sooner, alumni of the University of Oklahoma with an aim to help other nonprofit fundraisers achieve their goals. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals serving on the local IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) Committee. She is currently working towards two certifications: A Master’s Certificate in Nonprofit Management and the CFRE credential to be completed next year. You can find Cyronica on Instagram @Sponsor.chic and Twitter @Chicsponsor.
Dominique Calixte: Dominique is a fundraising professional, and has worked in the nonprofit fundraising space for six years. In her career, she has supported nonprofits in building revenue streams, implementing systems, and inclusive fundraising practices. She also focuses on activating millennials as change-makers through philanthropy, donor engagement strategies, and effective DEI practices in the fundraising space. Dominique currently serves as the Associate Director of Annual Giving and Special Events at the YW Boston. Outside of her work commitments, she runs a nonprofit Instagram blog called Domprofit- be sure to follow!
Ebony Jones: Ebony brings 5 years of regional experience from Michigan’s philanthropic sector. She currently works as the Executive assistant to the CEO of Focus Hope and serves on the board of YNPN Detroit. She’s passionate and involved in the non-profit sector in Metro-Detroit grassroots initiatives through volunteer experiences with Michigan Urban Farming League, Detroit Phoenix Center and Eastside Community Network. She has an Associate Degree from Henry Ford College in Business. She’s currently pursuing her undergrad degree at CMU in Integrated Leadership Studies. She’s a mother of 2, following her passions to be a children’s author. Ebony hopes to be a part of the positive lasting memories of childhood through her literature for boys and girls across the world. Connect with Ebony further through LinkedIn!
Khayriyyah MuhammadSmith: Khayriyyah is a passionate philanthropic professional focused on gender equity and the empowerment of Black and Brown girls and women across the globe. She believes change happens when funders work to create empowering and inclusive partnerships with grassroots and innovative organizations. Khayriyyah has worked in the philanthropy and nonprofit sectors for the past 12 years (starting as a youth grantmaker in a participatory grantmaking program), with public foundations, family foundations, and funder collaboratives across the US and in the UK. Most of her work there has a thematic focus on education at both the domestic and international levels, youth empowerment, and next-gen initiatives utilizing an intersectional gender lens. She is also the host of podcast Bring Your Own Chair which features the journeys of young millennial women of color and creates space for them to tell their stories and share their expertise. You can connect with Khayriyyah on Twitter @riyyriyy_ and LinkedIn.
Moderator:
Adetola Olatunji: Adetola is an Associate Partner at New Profit, a national venture philanthropy fund headquartered in Boston. A systems-oriented thinker and strategist with almost a decade of professional experience in the social sector, Adetola’s expertise and focus areas include centering a racial equity and systems change lens in investing, fundraising, and collaborations between nonprofits and funders. She currently leads ongoing strategy development, management and fundraising for New Profit’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Capacity Building initiative, a collective action effort with a cross-sector group of dynamic leaders in the College Access & Success field. Deeply involved with New Profit’s strategic and equity-focused internal work, Adetola is a member of New Profit’s Strategic Leadership Council, Inclusive Impact Integration Steering Committee, and Equity Advisory Council. Adetola often discusses her work and passions on Twitter: @AdetolaTweets.