Caronina Grimble
Caronina Grimble became a Woods Fund Chicago Program Officer in summer, 2013. Prior to joining the Woods Fund staff, she served as Associate Director for Family and Community Services at the Illinois Department of Human Services. She also worked with a small social service agency in Suburban Chicago, serving homeless youth, at-risk youth, and low-income and minority families. She serves as a board member of the Lawndale Christian Health Center (an FQHC in one of the most impoverished communities in Chicago), and as an associate board member for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and has long been an advocate for underserved, low-income, and minority communities.
Presentations from Facing Race 2014
Moving Foundations Toward Racial Justice Grantmaking
Join us to discuss case studies conducted by PRE on California Endowment, Woods Fund of Chicago and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation - each of which has been on a trajectory to move toward greater grantmaking aimed at combatting structural racism to achieve racial justice. The foundations operate at different levels (local, statewide and national) and are at different stages of their evolution. This session will share stories from various vantage points of trustees, staff and grantees - and importantly, will lift up lessons and opportunities where activists were able to engage and influence the institutional change processes to move funding toward racial justice.
Speakers: Lori Villarosa, David L. Neal, Caronina Grimble, Sandra Witt