The disproportionate public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on certain communities, along with nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice, have intensified the calls for foundations to focus on equity and reckon with anti-Black racism in a deeper way than they had before.

This study is the second in a series of three reports from Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) examining the extent to which staffed foundations have improved their practices in response to calls for change to meet the unprecedented challenges of 2020.