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Learn why funding the leadership of disabled Indigenous people is vital for advancing justice for Indigenous communities, people with disabilities, and everyone who exists at the intersection.
Justice Shorter and Aurora Levins Morales discuss how philanthropy can cherish, uplift, and fund the wisdom of disabled elders.
Nikki Brown-Booker, Yolanda Vargas, and host Justice Shorter explore what it means to work while disabled and cultivate inclusive and equitable workplaces.
Ryan Easterly shares how disability justice has influenced his journey as a Black disabled leader in philanthropy.
Learn why the HIV/AIDS movement requires both LGBTQIA+ rights and disability justice lenses.
With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Access Living is working to identify and dismantle root causes of overincarceration of disabled people.
Author Sarah Katz addresses concrete steps that philanthropy can take to improve access to reproductive healthcare for women and birthing people.
Learn about the systemic barriers facing disabled workers and why disabled leadership is necessary for labor movements.
Develop an action plan for deepening practices of disability justice in your grantmaking.
Learn how over-policing can lead to violence against disabled communities - and what funders can do about it.
A conversation about funding direct action and organizing with Julie Farrar, a longtime disabled organizer and activist, along with Jen Matheson, who leads the Advancing Disability Justice program at Northwest Health Foundation.
Learn why the leadership of disabled workers is crucial for labor rights organizing.
Two lessons learned by a philanthropic intermediary funding social justice and liberation work.
Three essential reminders for funding the work of disabled people of color.
A conversation on disability pride with Ryan Easterly, Executive Director of WITH Foundation, and Justice Shorter, a Disability Justice advocate and international advisor for disability inclusive humanitarian and disaster assistance.
A conversation with Sandy Ho and Dr. Richard Besser on why it's essential that philanthropy applies a disability lens across all of their operations and grantmaking.
We must dismantle the systemic racism and ableism that criminalizes disabled people.
A dialogue about the economic disparities that disabled people encounter when trying to find a place to call home.
Applying disability-explicit and race-explicit lenses to philanthropic work is critical to achieving equity and justice.
A reflection on economic inequities that disabled people disproportionately experience.
A spotlight on what actions can mitigate the poverty that disabled people experience.
A reflection on opportunities philanthropy has to direct funding toward systemic issues impacting the disability community.
Learn more about key statistics that highlight some of the many economic inequities disabled people experience.
Learn more about the disability community, frameworks to understand disability, and key disability terminology.
Sandy Ho reflects on the ADA as a first step for disability rights and looks ahead to the future.
A deeply honest spotlight on the multitude of ways ableism continues to show up across the philanthropic sector.
A call to use the mechanisms of philanthropy to address inequities, first by acknowledging its roots in ableism.
A conversation about philanthropy's role in dismantling ableism.
Emily Ladau and Sandy Ho share perspectives on disability rights and justice frameworks as ways for philanthropy to move equality and equity forward.
A call for funders to reconsider existing grantmaking practices that perpetuate oppression.
Insights on what funders must be aware of to truly advance justice through their grantmaking work.
Why it's vital for grantmakers to center people with lived experience in their grantmaking work.
Learn from disability advocates serving on participatory grantmaking committees.
Dr. Yolanda Muñoz discusses why it's imperative to include the disability community in grantmaking work that addresses climate change.
Valerie Novack highlights the cause and effect connections between environmental racism and disability.
Insights on incorporating a mental health focus within both internal operations and grantmaking practices.
Click here for a transcript of this webinar. In the United States, full and equal participation in society is a...
Dr. Subini Annamma urges philanthropy to stop centering whiteness and shift toward centering BIPOC disabled people. Click here for a...
Lydia X. Z. Brown calls on philanthropy to center multi-marginalized disabled people within their work and equitably redistribute resources. Click...
In this excerpt from the Disability & Philanthropy Forum's webinar on gender, sexuality, and disability, Robin Wilson-Beattie addresses how ableism...
Click here for a transcript of this webinar. Disability cuts across all identities, but the impacts of systemic disability discrimination...
One in five women ages 18 and older are disabled. The United Nations, through their work toward full gender equality,...
This guide for funders, created by Open Society Foundations (OSF), a member of the Presidents' Council on Disability Inclusion in...
In this excerpt from the Disability & Philanthropy Forum's webinar on racial equity and disability, Taryn Williams discusses the critical...
In this excerpt from the Disability & Philanthropy Forum's webinar on racial equity and disability, Conchita Hernández Legorreta speaks to...
In this excerpt from the Disability & Philanthropy Forum's webinar on racial equity and disability, D’Arcee Neal speaks to the...
This interview is a Q&A with Nora Phillips, Legal Director, Al Otro Lado. As the alarming impact of COVID-19 on...
The National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers (NNCG) working paper is a starting place of learning for the Disability Inclusion...
The Disability Inclusion Fund, housed at Borealis Philanthropy, hired Sandy Ho, a Research Associate at The Lurie Institute for Disability...
by Nikki Brown-Booker, August 2020 I am a Filipino/Black woman with a disability who works in philanthropy. When I enter...
In this resource, you'll learn about the origin and definition of disability justice as a movement and framework. Disability Justice...
This interview with Ryan Easterly, Executive Director of the WITH Foundation, is part of a series about disability-inclusive grantmaking. The...
This interview with Northwest Health Foundation's Jen Matheson, Director of Programs, and Laura Nash, Communications Consultant, is part of a...
Written works on disability have shaped the Disability Rights Movement. These selections are helpful and insightful starting points.
