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Ready for action? Use our brain gifts and leadership worksheet.

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Ready for action? Use our brain gifts and leadership worksheet.

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LLC Brain Gifts and Leadership . Fillable (v.7.2024)-1

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Our intentions for the work moving forward and invitations to stay engaged

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Our intentions for the work moving forward and invitations to stay engaged

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What does Leadership and Race in 2024 require of us? 

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What does Leadership and Race in 2024 require of us? 

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Why does leadership and race require of us in 2024?

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Our Intentions: Why we revisited Leadership & Race?

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Our Intentions: Why we revisited Leadership & Race?

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Huong Nguyen-Yap, Northern California Grantmakers reminds us that leadership is still a loaded word that can uphold traditional and sometimes harmful positional power where access and ability is exclusive. Given this context, leadership can show up as proactively offering grace to ourselves as BIPOC leaders, and offering grace to each other in the work that we’re doing.

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Huong Nguyen-Yap, Northern California Grantmakers reminds us that leadership is still a loaded word that can uphold traditional and sometimes harmful positional power where access and ability is exclusive. Given this context, leadership can show up as proactively offering grace to ourselves as BIPOC leaders, and offering grace to each other in the work that we’re doing.

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“I’ve recently been struggling with how to hold this idea that our organizations are imperfect vehicles for movement goals.”

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“I’ve recently been struggling with how to hold this idea that our organizations are imperfect vehicles for movement goals.”

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“During the pandemic, I found myself coaching many Black, Indigenous and immigrant female leaders stepping into executive roles who felt alone. These experiences sent me back in time reaching for the many afro-indigenous practices I grew up with that offered us care. It also catapulted me to look at the Mayan practices in southern Mexico. This helped me confidently bring the spirit of our indigenous rituals, ceremonies and daily practices into reframing the kind of coaching and culture change leaders and organizations need. While indigenous practices have been lost in every corner of this planet, many tribes, pueblos, comunidades and elders have retained some of them, waiting for this moment in time. Generations who were cast out of their homelands are returning to family systems or countries to remember what was lost, so that we may relocate leadership and reclaim the role of power, joy, play, pleasure and rest as an important gift to be passed down across our collective ancestral tree. This is a key improvement of the practice of leadership because it will offer future generations of leaders and organizations fighting for racial justice an option to be rooted in something more than generational trauma.”

-Ana Polanco

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“...leaders of color are grappling with organizational challenges as staff advocate for more equitable decision-making and pay, including efforts to unionize nonprofits."

-Sayu Bhojwani

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Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Standing in Our Power and Media Sutra, Inc.

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“Oftentimes what I’ve witnessed firsthand is in racial justice movement building, strategic consulting, and resource mobilization is that we put ourselves at risk of being harmed. We burn the candles at both ends, which hinders our overall wellness and limits our long term impact.”

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“Oftentimes what I’ve witnessed firsthand is in racial justice movement building, strategic consulting, and resource mobilization is that we put ourselves at risk of being harmed. We burn the candles at both ends, which hinders our overall wellness and limits our long term impact.”

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 “Being a leader to me, essentially means, supporting the people around me - supporting their vision, their execution, giving the resources they might need, clarity they might need, frameworks they might need, and supporting sense making they might need. A leader provides context and clarity to the environment in which we strive to make an impact.”

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 “Being a leader to me, essentially means, supporting the people around me - supporting their vision, their execution, giving the resources they might need, clarity they might need, frameworks they might need, and supporting sense making they might need. A leader provides context and clarity to the environment in which we strive to make an impact.”

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"And when you asked us how we felt in this new world, I felt a clear decrease in my own anxiety because I felt connected to all my neighbors. I felt connected and loved by them and that I loved them back."

- Brooke Treadwell

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Visioning and Practicing A Path Forward

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Visioning and Practicing A Path Forward

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And there are even more bright spots from deep liberatory leadership being practiced throughout the nation. There are more spaces where leaders are coming together to share their learnings and resources, and identifying ways to collaborate to increase impact going forward. “[BIPOC leaders] have a lot of resources, expertise and wisdom… gathering reminds us of how much there is.”- Monica Dennis

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“Red Sawblade Sun During
Monsoon” by Jesse Littlebird
(www.jesselittlebird.com)

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Visioning and Practicing A Path Forward

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Visioning and Practicing A Path Forward

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We believe it is possible for us to achieve repair and regeneration by surfacing challenges that BIPOC leaders have long experienced, demanding responses, and living into transformation within ourselves. We are also telling our stories, surfacing courageous visions, and even reclaiming play in our work.  Leaders are increasingly willing to name love as a goal, they are centering healing and care, taking part in radical sabbaticals, and bringing in ancestral and indigenous knowledge. In short, we are reconnecting with each other and ourselves with the care that the system has seldom offered us.

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“The deep meaning is not transformation for anything. It is actually transformation for something very specific, so that we can disrupt the settler, colonial, capitalist racist structures, white supremacist structures, structures that are making our world, frankly, dangerous for people like us to live in. So that’s the transformation that we’re talking about, and it means relationship and community and connection.”

- Darlene Nipper

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1st Draft Readers Who Gave Us Guidance Towards Completion

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1st Draft Readers Who Gave Us Guidance Towards Completion

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Beth Kanter

Daniel Lim

Krystal Portalatin-Gauthier

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Michelle Loo

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Image courtesy of Britchida.
“Things We Talk About” by Britchida
(www.https://britchida.com)

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Art in this report is used courtesy of expressed permission and limited licenses from the following brilliant artists:

Aisha Shillingford (https://www.intelligentmischief.com/)

Maria Blanco (https://www.mariablancoart.com/gallery)

Jesse Littlebird (https://jesselittlebird.com/)

Britchida (https://britchida.com/collections/shop-all)

Carla Jay Harris (https://www.carlajayharris.com/)

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Final . Britchida - Things we talk about(1)

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Nikki Dinh

Alexandra Urdaneta

Bella Celnik

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“Being a leader in these times requires vulnerability and a commitment to transforming colonial, racialized structures by being deeply interdependent.”

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“Being a leader in these times requires vulnerability and a commitment to transforming colonial, racialized structures by being deeply interdependent.”

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Mattice Haynes

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“Leadership makes way for collective vision making.”

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“Leadership makes way for collective vision making.”

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Holly Delany Cole

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Image courtesy of Maria Blanco.Borders and Walls #2 by Maria Blanco(www.mariablancoart.com)

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“I’ve watched a lot of Black women lose their jobs in the last few years, in part because they stepped into a gap that was there post-George Floyd during a pandemic that, had it not been filled, would have devastated a lot of communities. But now that we’re past it, folks are like, ‘And you didn’t do enough.’”

- Karla Monterroso

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In researching Leadership and Race, and to memorialize the moment we are in, LLC posed these two questions to four different AI programs: OpenAI ChatGBT, Microsoft Bing CoPilot, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude.ai. First we asked, “What is the definition of leadership?” Next we asked, “What is important to know about leadership and race?”

(See report for full definitions from AI)

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Leadership & Race, A Call to Each Other - Media Kit 

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Leadership & Race, A Call to Each Other - Media Kit 

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Spreading the Word.

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https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-race-a-call-to-each-other/

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Leadership Learning Community - Making Space For Relationship Building

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Leadership & Race: A Call to Each Other, Exploration of the Current Racial Justice Landscape and Recommendations for Action

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34 songs for your heart and soul. Curated by Iman Mills Gordon with contributions from our Advisory Group and Partners in Leadership and Race

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LLC -  Leadership And Race: A Call to Each Other 2024

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LLC -  Leadership And Race: A Call to Each Other 2024

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We created this document to explicitly name the experience of BIPOC leaders working towards racial justice in 2024, to further define what racial justice leadership requires in current conditions, and to provide immediate action steps that social

good stakeholders could prioritize to move us closer to our collective liberation. In partnership with many brilliant and incredible leaders, we are grateful to have found that promising practices and emerging pockets of hope continue to illuminate a hopeful path forward.

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Image courtesy of Britchida.
“Permission to Change” by Britchida
(www.https://britchida.com)

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Leaders need time and space for imagination and innovation

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Leaders need time and space for imagination and innovation

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Final . Britchida - Permission to Change

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Love and practices steeped in care and concern are required to advance racial justice leadership.

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Love and practices steeped in care and concern are required to advance racial justice leadership.

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Image courtesy of Jesse Littlebird.
“Lightning People Dancing in the Canyon” by Jesse Littlebird (www.jesselittlebird.com)

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Racial justice leadership requires leaders to imagine new ways of being, voice demands for strucutural change, and build the collective power needed to dismantle systems of racial injustice and establish liberatory systems.

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“Leadership is being a collaborative visionary. Having an ability to kind of bring different people together and tap into what their strengths and passions are and then you knit that together towards a shared goal.”

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“Leadership is being a collaborative visionary. Having an ability to kind of bring different people together and tap into what their strengths and passions are and then you knit that together towards a shared goal.”

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W.K. Kellogg Foundation

William + Flora Hewlett Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Field Leaders Who Contributed Their Wisdom

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Field Leaders Who Contributed Their Wisdom

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Aida Cuadrado Bozzo, Community Change

Amanda Lanceplaine, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Brooke Treadwell, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Carolyn Wang Kong, Asian Pacific Fund

Darlene Nipper, Rockwood Leadership Institute

Dax-Devlon Ross, Dax-Dev, Inc

Holly Delany Cole, LeadersTrust

Huong Nguyen-Yap, Northern California Grantmakers

Karla Monterroso, Brava Leaders

LaShawn Routé Chatmon, National Equity Project

Michelle Molitor, Equity Lab

Morning Star Gali, Indigenous Justice

Sayu Bhojwani, Speaker, Writer, TED Speaker

Karla Monterroso, Brava Leaders

Mattice Haynes, Embodied Leadership Coach

Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Standing in Our Power and Media Sutra, Inc.

Thato Ramaobi, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Ericka Stallings

Iman Mills Gordon

Leadership Learning Community

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Elissa Sloan Perry (Change Elemental), Frances Kunreuther (Building Movement Project),Monica Dennis (Co-lab Collective),  Sean Thomas-Breitfeld (Building Movement Project),  Trish Adobea Tchume (Robert Sterling Clark Foundation);

Shiree Teng + Venus Mejia

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Image courtesy of Aisha Shillingford, Artistic Director of Intelligent Mischief.
“Untitled” by Aisha Shillingford (www.www.intelligentmischief.com)

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Actors working in funding spaces must see themselves as racial justice and liberatory leaders.

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Encourage Generative Conflict: Leadership models that suppress dissenting voices are often seen as ripe for conflict. Models that invite in diverse voices aren’t immune to conflict, but they do have the opportunity to practice generative conflict, where conflict becomes an opportunity for learning, growth, and reconnection., Leaders need chances to learn how differing voices can still be harmonious.

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Image courtesy of Aisha Shillingford, Artistic Director of Intelligent Mischief.
“Untitled” by Aisha Shillingford (www.www.intelligentmischief.com)

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Create space to claim our power and build relationships in multiple ways: Racial justice leadership requires us to lean into interdependence, to turn to rather than against each other by building deep and authentic relationships. The change we seek “requires deeper collaboration, trust, relationships and community.”

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Image courtesy of Aisha Shillingford, Artistic Director of Intelligent Mischief.
“Untitled” by Aisha Shillingford (www.www.intelligentmischief.com)

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Lineage work: We envision racial justice work as part of a liberatory lineage. Lineage work asks us to pay closer attention - to hold onto efforts of the past, advance incremental gains, and also plan for an even more liberated future. We honor lineage by holding a shared direction and celebrating the incremental wins on the way to the monumental wins.

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Space for Stakeholder Meeting Wisdom and Quotes 

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Space for Stakeholder Meeting Wisdom and Quotes 

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Wisdom and Quotes  from Stakeholder Meeting

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Wisdom and Quotes  from Stakeholder Meeting

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“The beauty can sometimes be obscured. And so we wanted to show that, yes, we recognize the struggle of leadership and race, but also the beauty of who we are and the amazingness of what we have together.” - Ericka Stallings

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“The beauty can sometimes be obscured. And so we wanted to show that, yes, we recognize the struggle of leadership and race, but also the beauty of who we are and the amazingness of what we have together.” - Ericka Stallings

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grandmothers, sisters, ba ngoai, mother, Lola Belle Parker, Bertha, cecilia moy yep, june jordan, bisabuela, Black feminist ancestors including Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara and so many others, June Jordan, Sister Ann Renee, Uncle Sonny, Miss Corrien, Willie Henderson, Abuelas and Abuelos my maternal lineage, Lloyd and Eleanor

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“I’ve also been thinking more about how love, at the core, is an antidote to so much of what we see in our current systems.” 

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“I’ve also been thinking more about how love, at the core, is an antidote to so much of what we see in our current systems.” 

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"Leadership is not just one person; it requires collective responsibility."

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"Leadership is not just one person; it requires collective responsibility."

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“Being a leader is being courageous. It's putting yourself out there and it's trying your hardest. If you have an idea, be courageous enough to say it and stand by it.”

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“Being a leader is being courageous. It's putting yourself out there and it's trying your hardest. If you have an idea, be courageous enough to say it and stand by it.”

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This information explores leadership and race beyond structural racism and offers guidance to leaders, intermediaries, and those in philanthropy seeking progress towards racial justice. We hope that this work honors and offers an authentic illustration of the story of BIPOC leaders who are currently leading toward justice in these times, and invites us all to hold space for deepened connection and relationships.

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Image courtesy of Carla Jay Harris.
“Flight” by Carla Jay Harris (www.carlajayharris.com)

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We are experiencing much of what we will discuss in this report - they are not just words on a page. Though there are moments of celebration and hope here, much of the content is weighty, and you may experience that weight in your body and spirit. While most of us have acclimated to existence in these muddied waters, we want to acknowledge that much of what you will read here may feel like scratching at a deep wound. Rumi stated, “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Transforming wound to Light requires care, intention, spaciousness, and love.