Anti-Racism Consortium
About the Anti-Racism Consortium
IHJE received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to lead a process for planning two grant programs, Building a Vision for Anti-Racist Health Policy (VFAR) and Illuminating and Addressing the Healthcare System’s Role in Perpetuating Structural Racism (ISR).
The Institute sought to accomplish the grant objectives by creating the Anti-Racism Consortium – a panel of content experts, community advocates, and organizations. Each consortium member has vast experience in working to develop and advocate for anti-racism health policy, address racism-the root causes of health inequities, and create programs and interventions that address structural racism in the health care system. Each consortium member represents a different geographic region, sector, and expertise area.
The Consortium's Work
Reports
Consortium members worked to produce reports offering insights on the state of philanthropic funding and anti-racist public health initiatives, including the collaboratively produced final report: “Anti-Racism Funding Practices: Transforming Public & Private Philanthropic Funding.”
Podcasts
In these conversations with their community partners, Consortium members take to the Critical Futures podcast to highlight how to deeply work with community — exploring ways to share power and ways to move us all towards liberation.
Grant Resources
In the early stages of their collaboration, the Consortium created resources to guide their work on the grants. This included a glossary of key terms and a collection of frameworks regarding community engagement and anti-racist public health.