Unlocking the Promise

Unlocking the Promise gives us a perfect first step to ask new or difficult questions and set aside our bias to fund the familiar, the known, the predictable and instead to look deeply into existing disparities and hold ourselves accountable for rebalancing our investments to better meet the critical needs in important places: low-income neighborhoods and communities of color across the nation.

– Joanne Walz, Minneapolis Foundation

Fair, opportunity-based grantmaking is not only the “right” thing to do, but also the most promising contribution that funders can make towards creating more sustainable, equitable and livable communities.