As attacks on anti-racist education in schools continue, some advocates argue they’re part of a broader assault on public education. Funders have been stepping up, but the situation is urgent and the sector could do more.
Read MoreDr. Gislaine Ngounou, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s new interim president and CEO, believes philanthropy can do more to promote racial equity. What that might take, she argues, is for the sector to reinvent itself.
Read MoreEven before the pandemic and the protests that followed George Floyd’s death, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation had already pivoted its grantmaking to put issues of race front and center. Now it’s doubling down on this approach.
Read MoreIt’s not easy for foundations to give up their power. But Gislaine Ngounou of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation argues that funders need to unlearn “the internalized superiority from which we operate” to achieve greater impact.
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