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Towards a Just East THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION www.ebcf.org TOWARDS A JUST E A ST BAY Early Lessons Learned from EBCF's Change Journey A JUST EAST BAY // TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE REPORT 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS The authors would like to thank several individuals in particular for their input and contributions to “Towards a Just East Bay: Frontline Solutions is a Black-owned national consulting Early Lessons Learned from EBCF’s Change Journey,” without firm that delivers a full range of services in strategic and whom this report would not have been possible. Thank you to the business planning, program design and implementation, many interviewees and reviewers who provided valuable insights: research, evaluation, technical assistance, and community Alexandra Aquino-Fike, Rob Davenport, Clarissa Doutherd, engagement. With 17 full-time staff spanning four cities Amy Fitzgerald, Mark Friedman, Angie Garling, Mike Gast, (Philadelphia, PA, Baltimore, MD, Washington, DC, and Ed Harris, Byron Johnson, Nicole Kyauk, Mario Lugay, Stacey Durham, NC), the Frontline team is comprised of organizers, Manley, Muhammad McCabe, Betsy Merzenich, Bonnie Moss, scholars, strategists, artists, and coaches who are adept at David Pontecorvo, Jessamyn Sabbag, Alexander Saingchin, Jeff utilizing consulting as a tool for social change. Frontline’s Sunshine, Shiree Teng, Dan Tuttle, Constance Walker, as well as capacity is further augmented by a robust team of part- all those who have not been named. To encourage candor, most time subject-matter and technical experts. interviews were conducted on the condition that the respondents would not be quoted by name, and therefore excerpts from the The researchers and writers for this report were: interviews are not footnoted. • Emily Hylton Special thanks also to Favianna Rodriguez, the artist whose • Katrina Gamble beautiful work is featured on the front cover, to Dionne Aiken, who designed this publication, to Rachel Hylton, who edited the • Micah Gilmer content, and to Sachi Yoshii, who led this initiative at EBCF. • Zaid Khatib For more information, contact Sachi at [email protected] or visit www.ebcf.org INTRODUCTION Over the past several years, the East EBCF understands that the value proposition 2 11 Bay Community Foundation (EBCF) has of community foundations is shifting. The been quietly doing something that is truly Introduction Capacity framework of community foundations has remarkable in the community foundation become less necessary for donors, thanks to Building landscape: implementing totally new ways of new technology platforms that allow donors in Under- partnering with donors, social movements, to navigate the technical aspects of giving in and the community at large. EBCF is a matter of a few clicks. Nevertheless, the core Resourced serving as a testing ground for ideas that benefit of the community foundation model Communities may also work in other areas of the country, continues to be a foundation’s experiential, 3 proving that new funding models are both qualitative, and deeply personal knowledge Lobbying & legally and logistically possible. This work has of a specific community. EBCF has begun Advocacy challenged long-held assumptions about to engage donors in a dynamic process of in Support what community foundations may allowably leadership, training, and organizing by inviting of Social do, busting myths that are often used as donors to partner with movements in their Movements 17 excuses to maintain the status quo. As EBCF advocacy work. EBCF realizes the fundamental Institutional removes barriers, the question that remains importance of treating community as an equally- Assets as for more risk-averse community foundations weighted stakeholder. Without the trust and is not whether they are able to create support of community, the foundation would Community transformational change, but whether they not have the capital to serve as a relationship 7 Assets are willing to do so. broker and credible advisor to donors. Perhaps most notably, EBCF has engaged in Change is difficult, and requires risk: Building direct campaign work through lobbying and reputational, relational, financial, and sometimes Donor advocacy, going beyond civic engagement legal. Major organizational shifts inevitably bring and voter registration to hold political Leadership challenges, struggles, and even failures. EBCF positions on issues central to the prosperity of has been quick to own these shortcomings, 19 the East Bay. This new way of working allows knowing that they are part of the process Creating the foundation to more adequately support of creating meaningful change. This report Conditions for movement and community priorities in the highlights several new initiatives that have context of advancing political and legislative Organizational recently been piloted by EBCF while remaining causes. Through the launch of the Accelerating transparent about the lessons that the Transformation and Stabilizing Communities through foundation has learned along the way. Equitable Nonprofit Development: Black-Led Organizations (ASCEND:BLO) program, EBCF -THE FRONTLINE SOLUTIONS has challenged the idea of universal, one-size- TEAM: KATRINA GAMBLE, MICAH fits-all capacity-building strategies. The early GILMER, EMILY HYLTON, AND ZAID success of ASCEND:BLO is a testament to the KHATIB power of targeted solutions in addressing structural inequities. JUST EAST BAY // TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE REPORT 2 When the East Bay Community Foundation public charity to lobby in support of community decided to partner with community-led priorities. EBCF was able to work with a range of organizations working in communities of color partners, including public and private foundations to enact transformational change, it knew that as well as corporations, to raise over $1.2 million in LOBBYING & ADVOCACY explicit lobbying and advocacy activities should 1.5 years to support community-led ballot measures be a significant part of its approach to building on early child care and education. community power. Yet how could it do so with a IN SUPPORT OF SOCIAL The Fund generated resources for movement limited discretionary grantmaking budget and a organizations who could now more holistically relatively small endowment? How can a fundraising engage in ballot measures – primarily those foundation deploy lobbying dollars when much of MOVEMENTS related to early child care and education, but also its revenues come from donor-advised funds as well those related to other community priorities. In as private foundations, both of which are prohibited 2018, for example, the Fund moved resources to from directly supporting lobbying activities? How support passage of the Measure A ballot initiative could the creation of a lobbying vehicle best support in Alameda County. Its passage would have raised the aims of community-led organizations and the $140 million to provide additional resources for “Simply defined, power is the ability to do work. When movements they champion? These are the questions early child care and education for homeless families that EBCF asked in identifying how to best support we’re locked out of city hall, we don’t have much power, and children, increase access to affordable and systems change with low-income communities of quality child care and education to thousands of but when we can negotiate on behalf of our communities color in the vanguard. families on waiting lists, raise the wage for early with a transformational lens and change both the public At the outset, EBCF worked closely with various legal educators, and otherwise improve early care and narrative and concrete policies, that’s what we think of experts, such as those with the Alliance for Justice’s education in Alameda County. This is an incredibly as power,” says Jessamyn Sabbag, Executive Director of Bolder Advocacy program, to understand how to pressing issue, as there are growing racial and create a pooled fund structure that would maximize economic inequities in early education readiness Oakland Rising Action. In other words, the ability to directly flexibility to receive resources from a variety of in Alameda County. While 82 percent of white advocate on behalf of communities and be engaged in sources. EBCF learned that the tax code allows students in Alameda County are kindergarten- private foundations to contribute, provided that ready when entering school, only 36 percent of strategic political campaign decisions is a fundamental the donations are not earmarked for lobbying.1 African American and 29 percent of Latinx students component of building sustainable community power. reach this benchmark, and similar disparities exist EBCF’s first experiment in this arena came in across economic measures. Measure A was an However, those most directly impacted by inequity are October 2017 in the form of the Early Childhood opportunity to use government revenue to address Progress Fund (“the Fund”), a pooled fund vehicle often restricted to performing public education, which, this significant problem. While Measure A came that would provide the space and resources for short of successfully passing by just 1,500 votes, while critically important, is nevertheless only one part of community-led organizations specializing in early the effort built significant organizational capacity care and education to engage in the full breadth the work. Organizations have indicated that limiting their within the community-led groups that engaged of their work. What is particularly special
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