This grantmaker wants to break white men’s stranglehold on philanthropic donations
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The Solutions Project is aiming to give 95% of its funding for renewable energy projects to people of color by 2020.
Of the billions of philanthropic dollars that foundations give to nonprofits, virtually all of it–an estimated 95%–goes to organizations run by white people. Up to 80% of those are men. That imbalance is reflected both in grantmaking as a whole and in the realm of funding for climate change, where one organization is now working to change the trends. By 2020, The Solutions Project, an organization known for leading the push for 100% renewable energy, plans to invest 95% of its resources in projects led by people of color. At least 80% will go to organizations led by women.