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Subject: Corporations Often Waver on Racial Equity Efforts
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Employees and directors at Raheem Al, a now-defunct anti-police nonprofit, faced a dilemma when they discovered that the founder had apparently misused hundreds of thousands of dollars of the struggling organization’s funds. After they investigated Brandon D. Anderson’s spending on travel, clothes, and chiropractic and veterinary care, the nonprofit’s two independent directors quit and eventually donors pulled their funding. Reporting the situation to law enforcement was a bitter pill for the group, but ultimately, the former staffer who discovered the irregularities reconsidered. Now the case is under investigation by the D.C. attorney general. Anderson declined to answer detailed questions. He sent a written statement saying that some allegations made about him were “rife with untruths,” but declined to specify which. (New York Times)
Background from the Chronicle: Philanthropy’s New Activism in Public Safety
San Francisco’s district attorney is pulling out of a criminal justice reform partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, forgoing a $625,000 grant. MacArthur had prodded the office of D.A. Brooke Jenkins, who has overseen a rise in the city’s jail population since her former boss, Chesa Boudin, was ousted in a recall election. Jenkins’s chief of staff, who, like Jenkins, is a Black woman, accused the foundation of racism and “lecturing” in its dealings with the office. The MacArthur Foundation, which has given $5.2 million to the D.A.’s office since 2018, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. (Mission Local)
Background from the Chronicle: 3 Years After George Floyd, Foundations Say They’ve Changed
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