Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy Establishes the Distinguished Scholar in Racial Healing Practice Program

The Center on Community Philanthropy at the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas has established a new class of scholars to its long-running, nationally-recognized Scholars in Residence program. These new scholars are the Distinguished Scholars in Racial Healing Practice. The program is supported by a three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich.

“Understanding racial healing requires that we explore the wisdom and experience of healing practitioners through scholarship,” said Dr. Charlotte L. Williams, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Center on Community Philanthropy. “Hosting these racial healing practitioners creates a unique learning opportunity for our campus and our numerous partner organizations and those who wish to improve themselves and their communities.”

The program goal is to gather healing practitioners and utilize their collective knowledge to inform the sector on ways to promote racial healing and advance equity. The Center also plans to build out the capacity and reach of its National Racial Healing Certification program which it launched in 2020 in partnership with the National Compadres Network.

“The COVID-19 pandemic which disproportionately impacts communities of color, highlights the need for greater attention to health and economic justice. The world has also experienced the birth of a new commitment to dismantling structural racism. Our foundation’s approach to advancing racial equity upholds racial healing as essential to addressing the trauma our communities face.” said Arelis E. Diaz, Director, Office of the President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation. “We are honored to support the healing practitioners with whom we have partnered and grateful for their commitment.  Congratulations to each of them! They are masters of their craft. This distinguished scholars opportunity will promote healing practitioners as vital to community transformation efforts.”

Each scholar will spend time in residency writing, interacting and using this opportunity to further their own thinking and understanding of how philanthropy can connect with other sectors to promote racial healing. At the end of the week they will share their scholarship to a public audience.

“We are thrilled to have the new Distinguished Scholars in Residence program and we’re thankful for the unwavering support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,” said Dean DeFrancesco Soto. “The Center on Community Philanthropy is a pillar of the Clinton School of Public Service and puts into action our long-standing commitment to social change through justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.”

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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