The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is pleased to announce that Meshie Knight has been named U.S. Racial Justice Director. In this role, Knight will lead the U.S. Racial Justice Initiative’s strategy development and grantmaking, including the allocation of the remaining resources in the $100 million fund the Foundation established in 2020 to address anti-Black racism in … Continued
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As the David and Lucile Packard Foundation deepens its commitment to justice and equity in the United States, we are taking a hard look at how our Foundation can use mission investments – loans and equity investments – to advance racial equity by making capital available to communities of color who have long been denied it. I … Continued
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Last summer, following the groundswell of protests against racism and after important conversations among staff and the Board of Trustees about the urgency to act, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation committed to examining how we could contribute our resources and energy toward justice and equity for Black people and people of color. I joined the Foundation in … Continued
Part 2: A conversation with Solidaire Network’s Rajasvini Bhansali about how philanthropy can show up in service to building movements for justice and equity. This blog post is a continuation of the conversation between the Packard Foundation’s Carlin Johnson Politzer and Solidaire Network’s Rajasvini Bhansali about the work of Solidaire Network and what Bhansali and her team have gathered about the … Continued
Part 1: A conversation with Solidaire Network’s Rajasvini Bhansali about how philanthropy can show up in service to building movements for justice and equity The events of 2020 were deeply challenging, by many accounts — a time when trauma impacted so many of us, our families, our health, our communities, and our planet. Within the … Continued
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The Packard Foundation has faced critical moments over the past several decades. We faced a change in leadership when my grandfather, David Packard, passed away and left the majority of his estate to the Foundation in 1996, allowing the Foundation to greatly expand the breadth and depth of its grantmaking. We worked to better support … Continued
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The brutal and senseless murder of George Floyd by a police officer enraged and horrified me – yet it was also all too familiar for a country who mourns the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, and so many other Black Americans killed by police. I know that, for … Continued
