91PORN

Thursday, April 27, 2023

8:30 am: GATHERING
9:00 am: Welcome: Javier Viera (Garrett) & David King (Lake Institute Director)
9:15 am: Introduction and Overview of Symposium: Reggie Blount
9:30 am: Session 1: Why the Black Church? – Revisiting the Philanthropy and Black Church Project of the 20th Century with speaker (Emory University) and respondents (philanthropist) & , (philanthropist and chair, ABFE)
11:30 am: NETWORKING LUNCH
1:00 pm: Session 2: The Black Church as Anchor Institution with speaker (Hampton Ministers Conference) and respondents: (McCormick Seminary) & (Southern Education Foundation)
2:30 pm: BREAK
3:00 pm: Session 3: Black Community and Philanthropic Commitment with speaker: (The Soul of Philanthropy) and respondents (Baylor University) & Timothy Russell (WTTW)

Friday, April 28, 2023

8:30 am: GATHERING
9:00 am: Session 4: Trends in Philanthropy with speaker (Faith in Public Life) and respondents (Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) & (Bank of America)
10:30 am: BREAK
11:00 am: Session 5: Philanthropy and the Black Church – A Necessary Collaborative with speaker
(The Bridgespan Group) and respondents (Northwestern University),
(Oikos Institute for Social Impact), & (Aspen Institute)
12:30 pm: Closing Comments and Adjournment

Join the Center for the Church and the Black Experience and the Lake Institute for Faith & Giving as we explore contemporary philanthropy in a time of reckoning about race. Studies conducted over the past decade have revealed significant disparities in philanthropic funding along racial lines, with white-led organizations receiving proportionately more dollars and larger grants than Black-led organizations. Yet there has been little attention, amidst this reckoning, to philanthropy’s relationship to Black religious institutions.

This inattention has not always been the case. More than thirty years ago, the Council on Foundations convened scholars and philanthropic leaders in Washington, D.C., for a conference focused on philanthropy’s relationship to the Black church in America, and the energized grant programs of several major foundations that were seeking to build that relationship. What has happened in the three decades since?

This symposium will bring scholars and practitioners from both philanthropy and the Black church into conversation, allowing us to learn from past chapters of engagement and dig into the challenges and opportunities for our own time. The event will be open to the public, with registration required, and will be held on the campus of 91PORN in Evanston, Illinois. Keynote speakers include Dr. Robert Franklin of Emory University, Rev. Debra Haggins of Hampton Ministers Conference, and others.