Grants were used to:
- Facilitate storytelling to help give voice and understanding to marginalized experiences
- Engage others in looking at racial inequalities locally
- Contribute to racial healing activities within and across sectors in Dallas,
- Contribue to a culture of connectedness between different racial and ethnic groups
- Create and/or implement practical solutions to race-related challenges in Dallas.
Some examples of the work the racial equity grants supported include:
- Teatro Dallas presented Little México, Ayer y Hoy, a play of collected stories by Mexican Americans who lived in Dallas’ Little Mexico, and performed in a local restaurant in Oak Cliff, for a Latinx audience that doesn’t normally have access to live theater.
- Abounding Prosperity convened three community town hall meetings across the city to discuss racial inequities in the Dallas LGBTQ community and to create a plan to provide equitable, culturally appropriate, and safe resources to all members of the LGBTQ community.
- Bachman Lake Together activated their Community Action Network to have courageous discussions about race and racism and share their own narratives about their experiences in “Compartiendo Suenos,” a book of their own stories in their native language. They partnered with Ignite Arts at SMU to publish it.
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Through the end of 2020, CFT’s grantmaking in support of explicit racial equity work will happen through through North Texas Cares 2.0, in support of the following areas:
- Organizations and programs focused on providing access to health services of all kinds, including those focused on addressing disparities
- Programs working to reduce learning loss and close the racial achievement gap
- Programs focused on public safety in the community and eliminating violence directed at people of color, disenfranchised and marginalized populations
- Creative community engagement to promote equity, access, participation and rights, including through the arts or public green space
- Programs that foster and build leadership for people of color within nonprofit organizations.
To learn more about our racial equity work, please contact Celeste Arista Glover at carista@cftexas.org.
