How Foundations Can Do the Most to Advance the Needs of Minorities

At this time last year, the foundation world was swept up in a healthy and heated debate about diversity following the proposal of a new California law that would have required large private foundations to report race and ethnicity data about all grantees.

The California Endowment joined a coalition of 10 California foundations that opposed this legislation and faced tough questions about that position.

Given the endowments longstanding commitment to diversity, it was