In the early 1900s in a series of letters back and forth, U.S. educator/activist Nannie Helen Burroughs and social worker Jane Edna Hunter stood in awe of the obstacles they had overcome to fund, either with their own money or the philanthropy of others, schools and training programs for Black girls. Burroughs wrote to Hunter, “be it ever so difficult…we specialize in the wholly impossible.”
This statement from Burroughs has become a rallying cry for Black women who stand in the vanguard for social justice in the world and inside the field of philanthropy.
This webinar will explore the power of Black women’s leadership in philanthropy, what institutional philanthropy can learn from Black women and why we need Black women’s leadership in philanthropy more now than ever before.