A Philanthropic Convenant with Black America

Editors
Rodney M. Jackson, President and CEO, The National Center for Black Philanthropy, Inc; and Allan R. Clyde, Communications Consultant and former Director of Periodicals, Council on Foundations

Authors

Forward  
Tavis Smiley

Chapter 2
Philanthropy and Religion
Harold Dean Trulear, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Theology, Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC; Fellow, Center for Public Justice, Annapolis, MD; President, G.L.O.B.E. Ministries, Philadelphia, PA

Chapter 3
Personal Giving
Erica Hunt, Executive Director, Twenty-First Century Foundation, New York, NY

Chapter 4
Fundraising to Stengthen Black Communities
Birgit Smith Burton, Senior Director of Foundation Relations, Georgia Institue of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Chapter 5
Youth in Philanthropy
Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb, Founder and CEO, Rising Oak Foundation, Vashon Island, WA

Chapter 6
Civic Engagement in the African American Community
Stephanie Robinson, Esq., Founding President and CEO, The Jamestown Project, New Haven, CT, and former Chief Counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy; Charisse Carney-Nunes, Esq., writer, attorney and policy analyst and Senior Vice President of Knowledge Development and Media Relations, Jamestown Project

Chapter 7
African American Response to Natural Disasters
Sherece Y. West, Ph.D., President and CEO, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Founding CEO, Louisana Disaster Recovery Foundation; Kermit "K.C." Burton, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD and Interim CEO, Louisana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA

Chapter 8
Mobilizing Our Time and Talent through Volunteering
Rodney M. Jackson, Founder, President and CEO, The National Center for Black Philanthropy, Inc.

Chapter 9
A Convenant Fund for Black America
Rodney M. Jackson, Founder, President and CEO, The National Center for Black Philanthropy, Inc.

Afterword
Emmet D. Carson, Ph.D., President and CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Have you made your "Convenant Commitment?"

"A Philanthropic Covenant with Black America" was written in part with a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.