By Andrea Flynn, Senior Director Today the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Like many, I’ve been anticipating writing that sentence for the last two months, but really for the last decade, since the Tea Party won the 2010 midterm elections and elevated attacks on reproductive rights. And despite nearly…

As an organization led by women of color, Insight Center has had to continuously fight the white supremacy and anti-blackness that exists in our society at large, and particularly within philanthropy. To better understand how our own experience in fundraising matched up with others in the space, we conducted a…

By: Andrea Flynn, Senior Director and Jhumpa Bhattacharya, VP of Programs and Strategy Too often, non-profit organizations that aim to do transformative work in the world fail to do good inside their organizations. In recent years we have seen many of our peers working in conditions that contradict the progressive…

By Jhumpa Bhattacharya It’s 2021, which marks the start of a new decade and a new presidency in the United States. A welcome change in tone and tenor, we are excited by the possibility of having a leader who openly acknowledges white supremacy as a flourishing threat that must be…

By Anne Price, President As the nation prepares for the transfer of power to a new Presidential administration, we are confronted with uncomfortable truths about our democracy and the social and economic structures of our society. As writer Steve Almond noted, “This election took American democracy down to its studs…

By Anne Price, President With less than a week until Election Day and early voting eclipsing 2016 numbers, Black, Indigenous, Asian and Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Muslim women will play a crucial role in determining our nation’s future. …

By Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Vice President of Programs and Strategy Earlier this month, Governor Newsom signed the Families Over Fees Act eliminating 23 unjust, racist administrative fees within our legal system, and expunging $16 billion of fee debt held by mostly Black and brown Californians. …

By Debt Free Justice California On September 18, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 1869, the Families Over Fees Act, eliminating 23 unjust, racist administrative fees within the Californian legal system and expunging $16 billion of fee debt held by mostly Black and brown Californians. A historic policy…

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has consistently been rated as one of the most segregated cities in America and one of the worst places for Black people to live. Wisconsin imprisons Black men at the highest rate in the nation; many of them come from Milwaukee. …