Amara Enyia

Aug 16, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Amara Enyia

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Apr 18, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Alison Stine |Rahel Teka |Amara Enyia |Rebekah Barber

In “an attempt to explore the sorrow and anxiety of living and parenting in a world on fire,” Jared Beloff started writing a book. Amid the raging pandemic in 2020, the writer couldn’t ignore the severe weather events happening around the world in close succession: intense wildfires in California, surging floods in Pakistan and China. “I kept a journal for a while just chronicling these things, to bear witness,” Beloff told NPQ in an interview.

Mar 7, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Yanique Redwood |Temi F. Bennett |Amara Enyia

In August 2023, writer and racial strategist Yanique Redwood released her first book,  White Women Cry and Call Me Angry: A Black Woman’s Memoir on Racism in Philanthropy. The book is about her own experience with racism at work, told through a collection of 18 essays. When Redwood released White Women Cry, she had no idea what the public response would be or if it would resonate with others. Unfortunately, Redwood would soon discover that her experience with racism is not unique.

Feb 22, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Isaiah Thompson |Temi F. Bennett |Amara Enyia |Rahel Teka

“Simply put, Black women are the backbone of modern day philanthropy.” So asserts a new book, Portraits of Us: A Book of Essays Centering Black Women Leading Philanthropy, edited by Toya Nash Randall, former board chair of Black Foundation Executives and “curator and catalyst” of Voice. Vision. Value., the digital platform that published the book in partnership with Blacks in Philanthropy Networks and Regional Associations of Grantmakers.

Feb 8, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Cynthia Gibson |Lisa Cowan |Jocelynne Rainey |Amara Enyia

This article was co-produced and co-published with Proximate. Who gets to make the decisions about where philanthropic dollars go? For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that grantmaking should rely on professional staff to make expert decisions, reflecting philanthropy’s move from a values-based tradition to a more technocratic bent. But even a decade ago, thelimitations of what came to be called “strategic philanthropy” were evident.