Module 4: Equitable Partnerships and Giving

Facilitator: SaraDay Evans, Accelerating Appalachia

This session gives an overview of how to approach partnerships and giving through a J.E.D.I lens. Saraday founded Accelerating Appalachia (ACAP) to combine her years of work in sustainable economies, environmental protection, and social justice into a program to accelerate a regenerative, socially-just economy. For seventeen years, Saraday worked at Kentucky’s Department for Environmental Protection and North Carolina’s Department of Commerce where she built programs to promote healthier people and places. She received U.S. presidential commendations and state and regional awards for this work. When Saraday’s sustainable economy program for high unemployment counties in North Carolina lost its funding, she launched ACAP to continue the important work of restoring the people and places of one of the most biologically diverse, yet poverty-stricken and over-extracted, regions in North America: Appalachia.

• Module Materials

  Video Session Recording

• Related Resources

  11 Trends In Philanthropy For 2021, Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

  Social Movement Investing

  Funders: Here’s a tool to make your grantmaking more equitable

  The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic
  Social Capital Global

• Self Reflection Questions

  What will you take from this session to your team to help your giving program evolve?