The grant-making world’s black leaders were urged to support education and pay special attention to the plight of young men during a lecture and awards ceremony on Sunday for members of the Association of Black Foundation Executives, as reported by Rosetta Thurman on her blog, Perspectives from the Pipeline.

The association, an affinity group of the Council on Foundations, gathered this past weekend in Atlanta as part of the council’s annual conference.

Beverly Tatum, president of the historically black women’s institution, Spelman College, urged grant makers to direct more of their organization’s support to colleges that primarily serve minorities. “Millions of dollars go to heavily endowed organizations – dollars that could do so much at Spelman, Morehouse, Tuskegee,” Ms. Tatum said.

Another speaker — Loren Harris, formerly of the Ford Foundation — pointed out that more black…

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