Representatives from major center-left charities hosted a panel on Tuesday to coach nonprofit leaders on how to continue giving preferential treatment to some groups while effectively avoiding racial discrimination lawsuits, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The panel, hosted by grants management platform Fluxx and featuring speakers from center-left philanthropies Hello Alice and the Kresge Foundation, told leaders that with “small tweaks to the language” on their websites and marketing materials, they can continue to make race-based decisions “unobtrusively,” the Free Beacon reported. ReportedLaToya Ratliff, director of grants at Hello Alice, changed the description of the grants the organization offers from “only for Black entrepreneurs” to “priority given to Black entrepreneurs.”
“Those little tweaks in language helped,” Ratlieff said, according to the Free Beacon, “but most importantly, they kept us under the radar because we couldn't be sued for giving them priority.” (Related article: How colleges can avoid the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling)
“I expect that I will not be attacked for giving that preferential treatment,” she reportedly continued.
Hello Alice is “obsessed” with providing resources to entrepreneurs who are “women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, military” or have disabilities. According to To that website.
Affirmative action supporters protest near the Supreme Court at the U.S. Capitol on June 29, 2023. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Another strategy Ratlieff suggested for nonprofits to avoid discrimination lawsuits, the Free Beacon reported, is for organizations to seek partnerships with other grantmakers that don't make race a condition for funding. That way, if an applicant believes they've been rejected because of their race, the nonprofit can steer them toward the partners.
“So we can always say, 'Here's another opportunity that aligns with your specific goals,'” Latelyeff said, according to the Free Beacon. “So it's not necessarily a rejection. It's more, 'Hey, we're partnering with this company, this organization … that could help you do exactly what you need to do.'”
More than 100 lawsuits have been filed since 2021 attempting to block initiatives that are allegedly racist. Some have been successful, including efforts to block a farm loan forgiveness program and a restaurant revitalization fund that discriminated against white business owners.
Meta Platforms, the company that owns Instagram and Facebook, has been sued for alleged racial discrimination in its hiring process.
According to the Free Beacon, Ratliff also recommended that grant-making organizations use artificial intelligence to review their terms of use to remove language that could expose them to discrimination lawsuits against white people.
As of 2022, the Kresge Foundation has assets of over $4 billion. According to It takes the hassle out of filling out tax forms and is one of the largest charities in the country. The foundation is involved in a number of liberal initiatives, including funding a collaboration with the Biden-Harris administration aimed at reducing community violence. According to A watch that makes an impact.
Fluxx also has deep-pocketed clients. include Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Which together Spend Tax returns show hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies are given out each year.
The Kresge Foundation, Hello Alice and Flax did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's requests for comment.
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