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RWJF has a long history of white supremacy culture and consciously/unconsciously use these characteristics as their norms and standards make it difficult, if not impossible, to open the door to other cultural norms and standards. As a result, we really only allow other people and cultures to come in if they adapt or conform to already existing cultural norms.

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too much focus on research/not enough on direct action

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PAAs are still marginalized here. Lack of promotions or even access to info about our work.

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Some programs discriminated against cultural norms in an attempt to address perceived health issues

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Some programs discriminated against cultural norms in an attempt to address perceived health issues

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We use all the right words which we may not fully understand them - we say we want to use "asset-based" framing yet not funding works done by communities who are being active agents of change - because it is either too small and/or not a "fit" in our strategies.

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We use all the right words which we may not fully understand them - we say we want to use "asset-based" framing yet not funding works done by communities who are being active agents of change - because it is either too small and/or not a "fit" in our strategies.

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lacking in both our internal and external policies and practices

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Our strategies are extremely simplistic & linear compared to the real wicked, complex systems we aim to change. Also - sitting with the discomfort & pain of acknowledging that there are things that we cannot change is really important. 

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Our strategies are extremely simplistic & linear compared to the real wicked, complex systems we aim to change. Also - sitting with the discomfort & pain of acknowledging that there are things that we cannot change is really important. 

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Our JJ connection has had negative implications because of our Board composition and where are assets lie. We can't speak truthfully about and fully address the opioid crisis because of this.

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Our JJ connection has had negative implications because of our Board composition and where are assets lie. We can't speak truthfully about and fully address the opioid crisis because of this.

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This isn't the ER, we have the time and resources to do root cause work and gain comfort with in it

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This isn't the ER, we have the time and resources to do root cause work and gain comfort with in it

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A resistance to asking 'why' and a negative relationship with testing, trying, and innovating *(i.e. failing) 

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A resistance to asking 'why' and a negative relationship with testing, trying, and innovating *(i.e. failing) 

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Funding systems that we're unlikely to change even in the long term rather than systems in which we could actually make a tangible and meaningful difference---today, our country's culture of gun violence and it's impact on all but esp children and families is top of mind. 

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Funding systems that we're unlikely to change even in the long term rather than systems in which we could actually make a tangible and meaningful difference---today, our country's culture of gun violence and it's impact on all but esp children and families is top of mind. 

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Failure to properly reflect on our work.

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Failure to properly reflect on our work.

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Can we say that we center racial justice without having a more intentional work on the harm of the criminal legal system (the prison Industrial complex- PIC together with the harm done by the medical industrial complex (MIC)? Also why don't we use these terms- PIC and MIC? 

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Can we say that we center racial justice without having a more intentional work on the harm of the criminal legal system (the prison Industrial complex- PIC together with the harm done by the medical industrial complex (MIC)? Also why don't we use these terms- PIC and MIC? 

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we have used reputational harm, risk and legal limits as a way to constrain our work.

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the Board of Trustees passed a resolution adopting a statement regarding RWJF’s human rights principles for investments

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We invented our grantmaking policies/norms. They shouldn't be this difficult to change.

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Our funding of health inequities in indigenous populations is starkly limited.

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Not getting more involved in the COVID pandemic

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Not getting more involved in the COVID pandemic

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There was a lack in funding diverse groups in the past for an extended period of time.

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We rarely use external participatory processes for organization-wide strategy development

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Being present for social justice issues.

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Being present for social justice issues.

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History of harm and exclusion is still present in the way folks have/ don't have access to even discuss possible funding

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History of harm and exclusion is still present in the way folks have/ don't have access to even discuss possible funding

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unwillingness to let go of legacy work keeps us tethered to problematic and ineffective strategies and programming

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Procurement legacy has been evolving with a focus on advancing equity

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The jargon and lingo.

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We have traditionally avoided major areas such as incarceration, child welfare, gun violence, and climate. Areas that are direct descendants of a structurally racist society.

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We have traditionally avoided major areas such as incarceration, child welfare, gun violence, and climate. Areas that are direct descendants of a structurally racist society.

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we are hesitant on elevating our work in SUDs b/c of J&J's connections.

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Little to no investigation of guilt, blame, power and how these seemingly only cultural things have real impacts in the way we work and in our analysis.

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Little to no investigation of guilt, blame, power and how these seemingly only cultural things have real impacts in the way we work and in our analysis.

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We have moved from a university-based grantee population to include many more first-time community-based organizations

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We have moved from a university-based grantee population to include many more first-time community-based organizations

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We can't fully help the communities we're serving without addressing our own issues inside the Foundation

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We can't fully help the communities we're serving without addressing our own issues inside the Foundation

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Equity has been an evolving journey that has been progressing over the last decade

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our continuing deferral to the hierarchy of the health care system (physicians first).

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our continuing deferral to the hierarchy of the health care system (physicians first).

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While acknowledging structural racism, we were not ahead of the curve, to name and call this out, in the philanthropic community

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Two years for SNAP? Can we not identify and make change sooner? Especially when the way we solicit, select and make grants is harmful?

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Two years for SNAP? Can we not identify and make change sooner? Especially when the way we solicit, select and make grants is harmful?

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Investment side: Ignoring/not challenging banks' ongoing/profitable extraction of wealth from low-income communities through fees/fines/partnerships with payday loaners, etc. 

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Investment side: Ignoring/not challenging banks' ongoing/profitable extraction of wealth from low-income communities through fees/fines/partnerships with payday loaners, etc. 

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Promoting the SDOH and now PDOH in ways that advanced the narrative towards justice and away from blame.

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Promoting the SDOH and now PDOH in ways that advanced the narrative towards justice and away from blame.

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Online resources about life expectances by city and state have been very helpful

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Equity & Culture Department

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The expectations for receiving organization infrastructure for managing grants. We disqualify so many important contributors to the work we value in advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers.

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+1 on the comment about education -- feels critical

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+1 on the comment about education -- feels critical

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How could we really think resourcing intermediaries instead of actual community-based orgs was the right way to go with power building?

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How could we really think resourcing intermediaries instead of actual community-based orgs was the right way to go with power building?

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Because we reject place based grantmaking, we will not connect with community or catalyze change to address structural racism. 

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Because we reject place based grantmaking, we will not connect with community or catalyze change to address structural racism. 

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beginning the conversation and work on truth, reconciliation, and repair

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Stopping short of supporting building political power to move anti-racist policies that move the needle on health equity. 

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Stopping short of supporting building political power to move anti-racist policies that move the needle on health equity. 

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We fund in zero-sum ways that drive competition among organizations that need and want to work together for structural, transformational change - rather than funding in a way that reinforces interdependence and connections.

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measuring and indicators of progress, identifying ones that aren't traditional problematic defaults

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The short duration of grants is racist and harmful to the organizations that need support the most and have the least infrastructure.

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The short duration of grants is racist and harmful to the organizations that need support the most and have the least infrastructure.

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We do not work in some of the most aggreges systems that make ending structural racism unattainable.

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We do not work in some of the most aggreges systems that make ending structural racism unattainable.

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In some epocs of RWJF have held families of color and indigenous people controlled.

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Our work is absurdly trauma agnostic - unfortunately, this is strongly evident in our newer efforts on system-lever conversation. 

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Our work is absurdly trauma agnostic - unfortunately, this is strongly evident in our newer efforts on system-lever conversation. 

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We need to fund smaller organizations. Move away from renewing the same grants. Offer more GOS.

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how long it takes RWJF to make a statement on Roe v Wade and reversal (and other important issues)

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how long it takes RWJF to make a statement on Roe v Wade and reversal (and other important issues)

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Transforming public health data systems initiative

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Transforming public health data systems initiative

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How can we not work on education if we truly care about dismantling structural racism?

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How can we not work on education if we truly care about dismantling structural racism?

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We excluded many areas of disadvantage or other elements of privilege, particularly poverty in white communities. 

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We excluded many areas of disadvantage or other elements of privilege, particularly poverty in white communities. 

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Being a heath and health related philanthropy , what we can do to make the insurance not dictating which medication.

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Being a heath and health related philanthropy , what we can do to make the insurance not dictating which medication.

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MY grants, rarely do we do 1 year grants. And consistent funding over multiple years and multiple grants

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increasing our use of GOS, including MY GOS

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Third space work to lift up an anti-racist paradigm for community development

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Third space work to lift up an anti-racist paradigm for community development

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We often don't do all it takes to make sure new grantees are set up for success with RWJF.

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We often don't do all it takes to make sure new grantees are set up for success with RWJF.

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The use of jargon and academic language makes it difficult to understand what it is that we actually do, how we do it, and what actual impact we're making

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The use of jargon and academic language makes it difficult to understand what it is that we actually do, how we do it, and what actual impact we're making

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past 5 years, we've been trying to be more purposeful in who we use as vendors - instead of going to who we always use - trying to find more diverse vendors. moving in the right direction and have more work to do

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Unwillingness to really speak out on gun violence

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Unwillingness to really speak out on gun violence

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Problematic overreliance on BMI and obesity as a disease narrative which has perpetuated stereotypes against so many--and esp Black women and girls.

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Problematic overreliance on BMI and obesity as a disease narrative which has perpetuated stereotypes against so many--and esp Black women and girls.

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Reproductive justice is a great example of  our avoidance and strategic marginalization of issues (despite their clear connection to our stated mission, vision and values) that have clear roots in racism, patriarchy, colonialism and medical violence and control over BIPOC bodies. It's also an example of how the burden of centering and advancing these issues then fall on the singular will of staff - often staff of color and queer folks - who have to push against institutional barriers to force us to prioritize them.

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We are still aiming for significant "impacts" or things that can be scaled. Not acknowledging that most innovative approaches driven by communities & by people do not happen at scale. So this mismatch of expectations vs. the work on the ground continues to miss the mark on how "real change" could happen. We like big, shiny things to show for our work, and no one likes to say that we funded bunch of work for the sake of healing past trauma & building trust. 

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We are still aiming for significant "impacts" or things that can be scaled. Not acknowledging that most innovative approaches driven by communities & by people do not happen at scale. So this mismatch of expectations vs. the work on the ground continues to miss the mark on how "real change" could happen. We like big, shiny things to show for our work, and no one likes to say that we funded bunch of work for the sake of healing past trauma & building trust. 

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We don't have a good system for measuring our impact.

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We don't have a good system for measuring our impact.

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The system we do have -- programmatic measurements -- but they don't mean much because the goals are very different. Data points don't ladder up to it. $600 million in grants every year, you have a lot to focus on that.

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Have been reinforced in spaces where we have priorized our risk aversion, and resultant need for control, over where we have a role to improve equity.

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Our investments don't represent our values - they're meant to make us more money and not build a better world.

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losing sight of the role that philanthropy can play, which is NOT solely a funder. It's a voice, an ally, an employer, a provocateur, a convenor, a risk taker

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Validating employee's needs when they request special accommodations without criticizing or putting them on trial before helping them. 

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Validating employee's needs when they request special accommodations without criticizing or putting them on trial before helping them. 

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Unwillingness to address the negative aspects of our J&J history and continued ownership of J&J

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Unwillingness to address the negative aspects of our J&J history and continued ownership of J&J

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GROW workgroup that focuses on developing and implementing equitable grantmaking practices and policies.

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Inaction on - abortion, prisons/mass incarceration, gun violence (and how these issues are super tied up in structural racism/white supremacy)

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Perfectionism: We are slow to communicate externally about our strategies because we want to get it perfect/just right. We should be making our current thinking visible even if it's not perfect

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Perfectionism: We are slow to communicate externally about our strategies because we want to get it perfect/just right. We should be making our current thinking visible even if it's not perfect

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our strategic work - being intentional about pulling the focus on SR forward and getting more focused. This allows us to be intentional about who/kinds of organizations we need to work with to catalyze and support change

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Having such limited thinking around the geographical diversity of staff... how we build a national CoH when our offices/perspectives are concentrated only in Princeton/NYC/Washington DC? We are missing so much.

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Having such limited thinking around the geographical diversity of staff... how we build a national CoH when our offices/perspectives are concentrated only in Princeton/NYC/Washington DC? We are missing so much.

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foundation should be advocating for health insurance reform; universal health care

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foundation should be advocating for health insurance reform; universal health care

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Internal anti-racist / racial sensitivity training

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Actually using the words racism and structural racism where we haven't in the past.

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Actually using the words racism and structural racism where we haven't in the past.

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Calling it what it is instead of dancing around the issue has been helpful. I don't know that the comfortable with white supremacy yet, we have a ways to go, but in the past 5 years we've made rapid progress.

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I believe in the early days of AIDS, RWJF didn't do much funding in that area.

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I believe in the early days of AIDS, RWJF didn't do much funding in that area.

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why don't we ask people what they need and gear our grantmaking to them and what they need

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Our work around systems helps to get at the root of some of the issues, however this work takes a very long time to see any movement, and often times the people in the communities that are hurting are not seeing any relief. We should be focusing on systems as well as on-the-ground work. People who are in these communities often times don't see the fruits of this labor.

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Our work around systems helps to get at the root of some of the issues, however this work takes a very long time to see any movement, and often times the people in the communities that are hurting are not seeing any relief. We should be focusing on systems as well as on-the-ground work. People who are in these communities often times don't see the fruits of this labor.

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lack of focus on disabilities both internally and externally

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lack of focus on disabilities both internally and externally

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Intentional resources put toward these types of spaces/trainings/dialogues to shift our practices/processes as well as reckon with our history

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Intentional resources put toward these types of spaces/trainings/dialogues to shift our practices/processes as well as reckon with our history

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Need board members who have lived experience

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we have historically put men in positions of power even though 75% of staff are women

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working on policy is a way or endorsing existing power structures.

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working on policy is a way or endorsing existing power structures.

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We have sometimes been too close with hospitals and looked the other way from some of their practices.

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a lot of funding we don't want to talk about for pieces of work in LGBTQ+ or marginalized communities could be harmful

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a lot of funding we don't want to talk about for pieces of work in LGBTQ+ or marginalized communities could be harmful

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New HR policies that name family in an open way

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New HR policies that name family in an open way

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In the past, community members were not valued as experts within their own communities and the issues impacting them.

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we act like we can do everything and refuse to make hard choices

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Refusal to name and work toward universal healthcare

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Agree that we seem to have played an important role in advancing the importance of health equity. That has also become more of a polarizing concept. Not sure if we contributed to that.

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Agree that we seem to have played an important role in advancing the importance of health equity. That has also become more of a polarizing concept. Not sure if we contributed to that.