Lisa Ranghelli

Blinded by my class and race privilege, it never occurred to me to probe the organization’s salary structure more closely and provide the support its leaders needed to continue their important work.

A few months ago the McKnight Foundation made a striking announcement: The Minnesota foundation awarded a grant of $23-million to the Family Housing Fund to build 5,000 units of low-cost housing in the Twin Cities over the next four years. The award is the largest grant to a single organization in…