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What this moment calls for is action and collaboration. We need to become informed, stay informed, and to make more visible the work that has already been done. We need to support the urgent needs of the black and brown communities we currently serve. We need to make known the atrocity of current events and to stand up in solidarity with black lives.

Donate

• George Floyd Memorial Fund
• Reclaim the Block
• Black Visions Collective
• Philadelphia Community Bail Fund
• Bail funds, petitions, reading lists
• gofundme for Black owned Philadelphia business Smokes N Things (Venmo @quinhaMF with Baldwin Tailoring as the note - fund for Black owned business Baldwin Tailoring)
• the Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Resources and Tools

• Talking About Race from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Black Lives Matter Philly Chapter
• Bail funds, petitions, reading lists
• Black Lives Matter - Instagram and Twitter posts that include #blacklivesmatter (the hashtag was created to both show solidarity and provide related resources)
• a prewritten email with emails of elected officials and the Minneapolis Police Dept already embedded
• “Support black-owned businesses in Philly and buy from these bookstores” - Philly Voice, June 3, 2020
• Anti-Racism Resources for White People [google doc]
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corrine Shatuck
• Fels Social & Racial Justice Resource Guide [google doc]
• “Ally or Accomplice? The Language of Activism” - Teaching Tolerance (June 5, 2017)
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
• Anti-Racism for Kids: An Age-by-Age Guide to Fighting Hate
• Confronting White Supremacy in the Workplace by Caroline Taiwo
• Learn about white supremacy culture in organizations and institutions - from DismantlingRacism.org 
• As Radical, As Mother, As Salad, As Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now? edited by Paper Monument
• “Have Nonprofit and philanthropy become the ‘white moderate’ that Dr. King warned us about?” - NonprofitAF, June 1, 2020
• “How White People Conquered the Non-Profit Industry” - Medium, April 28, 2020
• Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources (For Allies, Orgs, & POC) - Artist Trust
• Five Ways to Be An Ally During COVID-19 - fakequity.com
• Health Issues facing the Black community - Sunshine Behavioral Health

Readings

• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
• Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
• “A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources (book, movie recommendations, and more)” - Medium, June 1, 2020
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Shaping Worlds by adrienne maree brown
• What is Systemic Racism?
• How Redlining Segregated Philadelphia
• Black and Asian American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
• "A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising" beginning August 1619 - The Root, May, 30, 2020
• Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
• “A Sociologist Examines the ‘White Fragility’ That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism” - The New Yorker, July 23, 2018
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, plus resources
• "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" - by Reni Eddo-Lodge in The Guardian, May 2017
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Documentaries, Films, Videos

• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS)
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• 13th (Netflix)
• The Best of Enemies (Xfinity)
• Just Mercy (Apple TV)
• The Banker (Apple TV)
• Mr. and Mrs. Loving (Showtime)
• "I Still Can't Breathe" a message by John Alston, Founding Director of the Chester Children's Chorus, an organization that was inspired by his own transformative experiences as a member of the Newark NJ Boys Chorus.

Review Your Business Practices

• Toolkit: Analyzing Departments on their Racial Equity - Artist Trust
• “Enough Already with the Statements of ‘Solidarity,’ Arts World” - Kaisha S. Johnson, Medium, June 5, 2020
• Racial Equity Tools - Arts & Culture (List of Resources & Curriculum)
• City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture - Racial Equity (List of Resources)
• Until We Are All Free (Arts & Culture Anti-Racism Resources)
• Diversify Vendors: WeBuyBlack, The Black Wallet, Black and Mobile and Official Black Wall Street, Philadelphia Black nonprofit and community leaders
• Creative Minds Out Loud Podcast - Episode 103: Enhancing the Visibility of Professionals of Color (2020)
• Discovery weekly webinars exploring how the arts and artists build informed and engaged communities (Knight Foundation)
• “Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not” - Refinery 29, May 28, 2020
• “Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot” - Shenequa Golding, Medium, May 28, 2020
• “Before you Check in on Your Black Friend, Read This” - Refinery 29, June 2, 2020
• Anti-Racist Organizational Change: Resources & Tools for Nonprofits (PDF) - CommunityWise Resource Center (Canada; 2017)
• “Racial Equity in Arts Funding: Statement of Purpose and Recommendations for Action” - Grantmakers in the Arts, Published March 2015; Revised April 11, 2019
• Resources from our March, 2020 Workforce Training: Creating a Diverse & Inclusive Workplace
• Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems - Solidarity Is & Building Movement Project (2020)
• "Confronting White Supremacy in the Workplace" - Pollen
• "Is Your Organization Anti-Racist?" - Capacity Interactive, July 16, 2019
• "To white organizational leaders, silence is violence: Here’s what you should do now" - Generocity, June 1, 2020
• "As protests and unrest grip the nation, how should Philly nonprofits respond?" - Generocity, June 1, 2020
• The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change - A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities & The Hill-Snowdon Foundation, 2017
• "Racial Equity in Philanthropy, Closing the Funding Gap" - The Bridgespan Group

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