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Despite countless experiences grantwriting and raising funds for the nonprofits I’ve worked for over the years, I never considered myself a “fundraiser” until recently. Now, I am doing more fundraising work and loving it.

It started out as a personal quandary about how the philanthropic sector delineates and defines “justice” grantmaking, what is “equity” grantmaking, and what is grantmaking that isn’t either of those things. That quest for understanding has grown into a long-term research and framework-development initiative that I am leading. The first product of this research and frame-work development initiative is the report titled “Philanthropy, Social Justice and Shifting Power,” a special report published within the Inside Philanthropy State of American Philanthropy series, for which I have been the Editorial Director for the past several years.