Very excited about The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council forming a Learning and Leadership Committee to study issues of equity…

Writing or thinking about some question on equity recently that involved the need to think about history, the “equality/equity” slide above flashed to my mind…

Sunday morning, thinking of a master plan, and perusing the amazing body of work of Alternate ROOTS, the southern based, artist membership organization with a mission to…

Sunday I was trying to think thru something and so went back to this piece I really appreciate,  "Leverage Points: Places To Intervene In A System" by Donella Meadows and it hit me, again, how a lot of us are sleep…

I was in London to see  The Edge Fund two weeks ago for my work as a Program Officer for The Heinz Endowments (I've written about the Edge Fund before) and was taken by the fierce Isis Amlak, the chair of Edge…

So, I am going to be expanding what I write about here at Hillombo. The Hill District has been my home for 20 + years as a place to be a part of a physical Black community and to bring to ground the ideas of Black Studies…

The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) has the best definition of ‘race”. Period. Dot. Came across it again today while doing my homework assignment (See prior post.). See it below…

With the movie Selma out and research I’ve been doing for a few other projects, I’ve had a chance to learn, think and talk about the Civil Rights Movement and the business of philanthropy…

So the last post was on the Edge Fund and what that might look like in the Hill District. This post gives some specifics on the process, dollars awarded and the kinds of programs that received…

Through work this past year with Grantmakers in the Arts on racial equity, I had the opportunity to take a couple of two-day anti-racism workshops with The People's Institute…