Webinar: The Facts about Black & Brown Communities and Why Current Funding Models Cannot End Systemic Racism by NMCRC

The Facts about Black & Brown Communities and Why Current Funding Models Cannot End Systemic Racism

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Presented by: The Woodstock Institute

"You’ll always get what you’ve always gotten if you only do what you’ve always done.” Decades of well-intentioned programs, policies and investments have not moved the needle on the struggles of Black and Brown communities. The time for creative destruction has come, but what to do, where to focus, and how to fund it? That’s where research is critical. But the intersection of research, policy change and advocacy poses a challenge to the existing funding infrastructure. Short-term, service delivery-focused grants and investments, while important, work against identifying and addressing the root causes that require those services in the first place, creating an expensive and unproductive cycle that has limited measurable and sustainable progress. This session is a call to action for financial institutions, foundations and research institutes to build a new model that informs systems and policy change, embraces trial and error, and eliminates artificial time constraints on solving society’s greatest challenge- racial equity.

Moderators:

Mr. Scott Syphax – Syphax Strategic Solutions, Executive Producer and Host of PBS’s “Studio Sacramento,” former President & CEO of Nehemiah Corporation of America

Presenters:

Horacio “Fred” Mendez – President & CEO, Woodstock Institute
Michelle Morales – President of Woods Fund Chicago
Mambu Sherman – Global Philanthropy, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Lenny Mendonca – Former Economic Advisor to CA Gov. Newsom, McKinsey / McKinsey Global Institute, Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Public Policy Institute of CA.

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Presenters

Horacio Mendez

President & CEO, Woodstock Institute

Change-agent leadership experience at the executive, policy, regulatory, research, advocacy, strategy and transactional levels of finance, risk and economic development across multiple industries from banking to technology to agriculture.

Mambu Sherman

Global Philanthropy, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Lenny Mendonca

Former Economic Advisor to CA Gov. Newsom, McKinsey / McKinsey Global Institute, Bay Area

Lenny was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom and Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz). He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor's Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.

Scott Syphax

Syphax Strategic Solutions, Executive Producer and Host of PBS’s “Studio Sacramento”

Michelle Morales

President of the Woods Fund Chicago

Michelle is the President of the Woods Fund Chicago, a foundation that is explicitly committed to centering racial equity and honoring the art of organizing and advocacy. Prior to Woods Fund, she led the Chicago chapter of the Mikva Challenge, an organization that leads the civic field in training teachers and developing youth councils for civic institutions. Michelle’s background has been in the field of alternative education & positive youth development, as a teacher at an alternative high school in Chicago’s Humboldt Park community, and then as Associate Director at the Alternative Schools Network. From 1997-2012, Michelle participated in intensive community organizing in the Humboldt Park area. Michelle is a fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago and participated in the inaugural cohort of Cultivate.