Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy Expands Racial Healing Certification Program

The Center on Community Philanthropy at the Clinton School of Public Service has received an additional four years of support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to expand its Racial Healing Certification Program.

With the first designation of its kind, the program’s efforts will continue to focus on building capacity for leaders by providing specialized training, education, and unique experiences that provide skills development and competencies in the very targeted area of racial healing. The additional support will create the opportunity for the program to reach a broader group of individuals and organizations from the following W.K. Kellogg Foundation initiatives: Catalyzing Community Giving; Global Fellows Network; Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation; and the Strong and Effective Sector.

“I am thrilled about the growth of the program and excited about its expansion to community leaders across the region and nation,” said Dr. Charlotte L. Williams, Professor and Director of the Center on Community Philanthropy. “The practice and journey of racial healing is a pathway to how communities can heal and thrive.”

“The work that the Center on Community Philanthropy is doing is truly transformative,” said Dean Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto. “Dr. Charlotte Williams’ leadership together with the support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is crucial for equipping our community leaders with the tools to bring about meaningful change.”

Since its inception in 2006, The Center has been committed to promoting community philanthropy as a social change strategy and a powerful influence toward racial healing and advancing racial equity. The Center’s impressive body of work around racial healing includes peer reviewed research, public education, course content development, and multiple experiences as participants in national racial healing trainings.

About the Center on Community Philanthropy

The Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy was created to focus its teaching, research, and policy-making exclusively on the emerging field of community philanthropy, the idea of giving and sharing time, talent, and treasure from within one’s own community. For further information, visit the Center’s website.

About the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

The Kellogg Foundation is based in Battle Creek, Michigan, and works throughout the United States and internationally, as well as with sovereign tribes. Special attention is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success. WKKF priority places in the U.S. are in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; and internationally, are in Mexico and Haiti. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org.

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