Potpourri
This GTRCF Fund primarily provides support for organizations led by community members of color, including Black and Indigenous people, as well as LGBTQ+, immigrant, neurodiverse, veteran, and/or disability community members became endowed this year.
(We are looking for the specific Endowment Name)
What is the Endowment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Chasten Buttigieg writes in his memoir about growing up in this Northern Michigan town.
What is Traverse City?
This documentary encompasses a nearly two-decade-long Shinnecock battle for preservation — one that not only questions of land ownership and grave desecration, but also the morality behind the environmental crisis and income inequality in one of America’s wealthiest zip codes.
Conscience Point
This term is the process of finding a peaceful solution to a disagreement between two or more parties.
What is Conflict Resolution?
In 2012, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors reported that “each year…Black donors give away this percent more of their incomes than white donors.”
(Based on January's mini-learning session)
What is 25 percent?
This term includes all the ways in which people differ, and it encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another.
What is Diversity?
Chasten spent time as an exchange student in this country where he felt safe enough to come out to one of his friends and had his first kiss with a guy.
Where is Germany?
This film explores the journeys of two fierce advocates and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why their movement is vitally important.
What is Mama Bears?
This categorization helps process unconsciously to keep up with the amount of information the brain receives every second, including processing danger quickly.
What is Implicit/Unconscious Bias?
This study is derived from scientific research and focuses mainly on learning more about the donor - on who they are as a person and how we (as fundraisers, development directors, an organization at large) can help shape who they are through their giving.
What is Philanthropic Psychology?
(thanks Merc for the lesson!)
Non-profits can apply to our DEI Fund two ways: a written application and this other way.
What is a video application?
In the Sum of US, Heather McGhee goes on a journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into this paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.
What is the zero-sum paradigm?
This village, known for the luxury property bought and sold at a premium, was featured in the documentary Conscience Point. Members of the Shinnecock Nation tell a different story about the meaning and value of this beautiful peninsula and long to preserve what remains of their cultural heritage.
What is Southampton?
There are Five Conflict-Handling Modes: competing, collaborating, compromising, accommodating, and this one.
What is avoiding?
In May, we learned from this Suttons Bay native, who led the Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabe History Project.
Who is Emily Modrall?
This is process of authentically bringing traditionally excluded individuals and/or groups into processes, activities, and decision/policy making in a way that shares power.
What is Inclusion?
Heather McGhee coined this phrase to describe Americans reaching across racial lines to work together for the common good—and securing better lives for us all.
What is "The Solidarity Dividend"?
This golf club is routinely ranked as one of the greatest golf courses in the world. However, in the Conscience Point documentary, we learn that the land was likely seized illegally and actually sits on an Indian ancestral burial site.
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
This conflict handling mode is both assertive and cooperative. When doing this, an individual attempts to work with the other person to find a solution that fully satisfies the concerns of both.
What is collaborating?
During our October mini-learning session, we learned about ways to bridge the political divide, depolarize yourself and talk to those you disagree with. Name one.
- Notice stereotypes in your own thinking
- ‘Edit the story’
- Limit consumption of polarizing news
- Curate your social media feed and watch for misinformation
- Get engaged in community groups
- Talk through difference (listen, acknowledge, pivot, perspective)
- Cultivate empathy and compassion
This nonprofit is Northern Michigan's premier 2SLGBTQIA+ organization, dedicated to promoting equality and inclusion through community events and advocacy.
What is Up North Pride?
Chasten left his classroom in this Indiana town, to travel cross-country in support of his husband, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, and his groundbreaking presidential campaign.
What is South Bend?
There are many ways that Mama Bears supports LGBTQ+ youth. Name one that the documentary highlighted.
- Facebook Group
- Sticky Notes (take what you need)
- Free Mom Hugs
- Dinners
- Attending Pride Festivals
- Advocating at State Legislatures
- Church Groups
This was a concept developed by Edward Hall in 1976 where items above the water are cultural aspects that can be observed. Items below the water are cultural aspects others would only know if they were close to the person.
What is a Cultural Iceberg?
This Organization launched an Anti-Racism Transformation Team (ARTT) in 2017, taking clear structural action to being truly community-centered. This purpose of ARTT is to “dismantle racist practices, policies and procedures” in support of the organization’s long-term transformation.
Who is the Kalamazoo Community Foundation