Communities of Color Content Topic Results

Studies show the percentage of people of color in the executive director/CEO role has remained under 20% for the last 15 years even as the country becomes more diverse. This publication from the Building Movement Project examines key findings on widespread systemic barriers to leadership positions for people of color in the nonprofit sector and offers strategies to address these barriers.

For Latin@ survivors of domestic violence, faith can be particularly critical as both a resource and a barrier to safety. The purpose of this resource is to share some of what Casa de Esperanza has learned over the years about working with and within the Latin@ community.

This toolkit from Equal Justice USA outlines the information that nonprofits need to understand VOCA funding, eligibility, and whether their organization is ready to apply for and sustain a VOCA grant. The toolkit will be useful for any organization seeking its first VOCA grant, but it is specifically geared toward organizations serving communities of color and other underserved communities.

This Special Collection developed by the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center provides information and resources on teen dating violence within Native communities.

In this webinar, presenters shared their radical and visionary approaches to promoting racial and gender justice and the critical importance it has to addressing and preventing domestic and sexual violence.

This fact sheet offers information about immigrant eligibility to access emergency shelter and transitional housing. 

In this TED Talk, Kimberlé Crenshaw defines intersectionality and describes how race and gender-based violence impacts the lives of black women. She emphasizes importance of doing social justice work through an intersectional lens and uplifting the narratives of black women.

This fact sheet identifies the barriers refugee survivors of domestic and sexual violence face and approaches that can mitigate their impact.

The study covers homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and uses data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Supplementary Homicide Report.

This piece from the Center for American Progress discusses the history of the intersection between race and policing in the United States and offers policy recommendations to improve the relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, this film offers an examination of the U.S. prison system, looking at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in the United States. 

This resource is a collection of materials developed by and for communities most affected by the expansion of the prison industrial complex and confronting reproductive oppression within the confines of the walls of these institutions.