Race Forward

“The vice president of finance and members of the finance department review the prepared preliminary drafts of the form 990. After their review and approval, a final draft is circulated to the full board of directors, and the executive staff of the organization, before filing.”

“Board members complete conflict of interest policy disclosure statements annually. The president and executive committee of the board track any potential conflicts. When potential conflicts are identified, they are disclosed to the full board of directors and the potentially conflicted director is excused from all related conversations. The executive committee of the board monitors and enforces compliance with the policy and taking such other actions as are necessary for effective oversight.”

“Independent members of the board, without the president's participation, do a compensation review as part of the president's yearly performance evaluation. They examine published data on non-profit salaries to determine comparable compensation levels. The results of the review are then discussed with the president and a final compensation recommendation is approved by the board. Routinely, market data surveys are compiled for all positions of the organization, reviewed by management, and when necessary, salaries are updated.”

“Race forward's form 990 and yearly audited financial statements are available upon request. Requests for all other documents are made on a case-by-case basis.”

“In 2020, we continued to leverage our increased power and capacity from the merger between race forward: the center for racial justice innovation and the center for social inclusion to successfully deliver our programs and projects. Our vision: vision: race forward imagines a just, multiracial, democratic society, free from oppression and exploitation, in which people of color thrive with power and purpose. Mission: race forward catalyzes racial justice movement building. We build strategies in partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Our theory of change details our organizational methodologies. The theory of change calls for race forward to pursue racial equity in four ways: grow power: connect and align networks of people, organizations, and movements to build the collective power (economic, social, political etc.) necessary to counter structural racism and steward transformative solutions for racial justice. Transform culture: harness the power of narrative, arts, and culture to assert the full humanity of communities of color, challenge racist ideologies that fuel structural racism, and envision a more just and equitable future. Transform policy: position communities of color and other historically oppressed communities as leaders and decision-makers in the policy-making process in order to create racially equitable policies at all levels. Transform institutions/sectors: institutions across multiple sectors of society (e.g. Government, philanthropy, non-profit, private, etc.) must operationalize racial equity in their policies, practices, programs, and products. 2020 programmatic achievements race forward's programmatic activities flow through four departments and two cross-organizational initiatives to bring the vision of a racially just world to reality. Narrative, arts, and culture narrative, arts, and culture works strategically in and through journalism, communications, the arts, popular culture, and cultural organizing to build and secure a culture that centers equity and justice for all. It develops and shares tools to build enduring race-explicit narratives that advance racial justice, and develops cutting-edge curriculum in narrative strategy to train hundreds of organizers, artists, and communications experts. Select 2020 highlights: the colorlines team provided groundbreaking covid coverage during the pandemic, reaching its highest readership in 6 years with 2.9m page views and 2.2m readers. The narrative and cultural strategy (ncs) team trained some of the largest and most influential arts organizations on racial and cultural equity planning. In partnership with 5 other organizations, launched the cultural new deal, signed by 2000+ of the nation's leading artists, arts advocates, and culture-bearers. The ncs team launched the $1.8m butterfly lab for immigrant narrative strategy, training and aligning 16 immigration justice leaders to change the narrative around migration and immigration. The momentum podcast concluded its first season with an apple top 50 podcast appearance and nearly 80,000 downloads. Movement capacity building the movement capacity building department builds leadership and capacity within grassroots organizations and others to advance racial equity on a national scale. The most critical components center upon communities of color. Our policy work (particularly but not exclusively related to energy, food, housing, transportation, and infrastructure) recognizes the importance of our issue-based work in supporting grassroots leadership development. Select 2020 highlights: at the onset of the pandemic, pivoted and developed virtual format for the building racial equity training. Supported local organizations leading for energy democracy and racial justice. Introduced the #raceand webinar series to build awareness and analysis of intersectional racial justice issues: institutional and sectoral change institution”

“Professional fees: program service expenses 2,071,058. Management and general expenses 543,660. Fundraising expenses 157,545. Total expenses 2,772,263.”