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“Until I was able to adopt a different set of ideas, I was going nowhere intellectually.” - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on his own antiracist journey and challenging us not just to *confront* our own ingrained ideas but to *replace* them. #EquitySummit2024

About last night… Thank you for a beautiful, joy-filled celebration, @policylink ! #EquitySummit2024

“We do not have the luxury of being surprised anymore.” - @Isabelwilkerson So much mutual love & admiration on the stage as MRBF Board Prez/PolicyLink Prez Ashleigh Gardere interviews preeminent authors Nikole Hannah-Jones & Isabel Wilkerson. #EquitySummit2024 @nhannahjones

MRBF Chief Strategy Officer Elena Conley-Jones explains what it means to be a “funder-ally,” and how we went deep on building power and advancing racial equity because of what we heard from communities across the South. #EquitySummit2024

Whew! What a candid conversation about legacy and mental health and rest and power…and insistence on love as strategy. Oh, and a Kendrick Lamar quote for good measure. What an incredible panel to begin the day at #equitysummit2024 💪❤️

“To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it. It is learning how to use it.” The great writeer James Baldwin would have turned 100 tomorrow. What do you suppose would he make of the world today? #JamesBaldwin newyorker.com/magazine/1962/…

Do you LOVE the South and share our vision for a more abundant, equitable future? Join our team! We are extending the application deadline for our associate network officer position to August 30.

Come work with us! We're hiring an associate network officer to help us advance our mission across the beautiful, abundant American South. mrbf.org/were-hiring-an…

"Perhaps the best way to consider #Juneteenth is not as the moment Black people attained freedom but as a moment in the long-running struggle to realize freedom," writes @CharlesMBlow nytimes.com/2024/06/18/opi…

Many thanks to the @KateBReynolds for the early #Juneteenth Jubilee for the Winston-Salem-based foundations today! And thank you @CrossnoreComm for hosting us last-minute. Beautiful campus, fun games, excellent food, good people, music and dancing!

Seventy years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, we still have a long way to go to achieve equity in our schools.

Woohoo! Great news for Louisiana voters!

We can't wait to hear @FlozellDaniels interview! Thank you for this opportunity!

Thanks @MissionInvest for having CEO @FlozellDaniels on yesterday's panel with Nicole Taylor (Silicon Valley Community Fdn), Sam Gill (Doris Duke Fdn) & moderator Bruce McNamer (Builders Initiative). All urged funders to put their balance sheets in the work to protect democracy!

Our grantee partner Dreama Caldwell, of @DownHome_NC, recently shared her powerful story with our board and staff. A group of creatives turned it into a song! Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=PsOQOB… Happy #WomensHistoryMonth !

"Janine’s goal was to disrupt the usual 'southernly nice' conversations about giving in the South & encourage philanthropy to focus on persistent inequities, esp. racial inequities, & grant makers’ role in addressing them," writes Susan Taylor Batten about our friend Janine Lee.

"The trick of the enemy is to suggest you can do something alone." MRBF CEO @FlozellDaniels tells @Chandasbaker about many of the Black women who made a way for him - in philanthropy and beyond. Thanks for having Flozell on "Conversations with Chanda!" soundcloud.com/conversations-…

Today is All Women's #EqualPayDay. In most Southern states, the wage gap is worse than the national average. And for women of color, it's worse yet. Equal Pay Day falls later for women who are: AAPI: April 3 Black: July 9 Moms: August 7 Latina: October 3 Indigenous: November 21

MRBF board and staff spent a powerful day in Durham learning from some of our brilliant North Carolina grantee partners! We are so grateful for their time and wisdom. And thanks for hosting us @MDCinc !

We are thrilled to introduce our new People and Culture Officer, Ashelee Barber. This is a brand-new position for the Foundation. Click to learn more about Ashelee and her role. Welcome, Ashelee! mrbf.org/introducing-ou…