Robert K. Ross, MD, President and CEO of The California Endowment (TCE) and D5 Co-Chair, describes how data collection enables his foundation to live its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, in a recent GlassPockets blog post. TCE’s Diversity Audits stand as a model to the field for tracking progress on a range of DEI indicators.
This 2011 project by the Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) was The California Endowment’s (TCE) first internal organizational assessment of the foundation’s diversity and inclusivity policies and practices. This assessment, which produced the TCE Diversity & Inclusivity Report Card, was a voluntary effort to increase the institutional effectiveness of The Endowment’s grants portfolio and institutional […]
This 2009 toolkit was created by The California Endowment following the foundation’s internal assessment of its diversity policies and practices. Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) conducted a national scan that included interviews with foundation leaders and reviews of foundations’ online materials. The results were so innovative and profound that the Endowment believed other funders might […]
