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About Kien Lee

Kien S. Lee, Ph.D., Vice President of Consulting, has expertise in promoting equity, inclusion, and cultural competency for health, food security, civic engagement, and leadership development. Current evaluations include those with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Colorado Trust, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Strategic Factors for Strengthening Our Communities: The Five C’s Community, Connections, Control, Cash, & Collective Action

The current health, social justice, violence, and environmental crises call for greater attention to strengthening our communities to care for their members and to take collective action to address the root causes of disadvantage, marginalization, and stress.

By |2022-02-21T16:31:47-05:00February 18, 2022|Equitable Community Development|Comments Off on Strategic Factors for Strengthening Our Communities: The Five C’s Community, Connections, Control, Cash, & Collective Action

Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice, Principle Four: Understand the universe and philanthropy’s place in it.

What is the universe of social human community services and what is philanthropy's place in it?

By |2021-11-02T10:41:27-04:00November 2, 2021|Blog, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Improvement|Comments Off on Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice, Principle Four: Understand the universe and philanthropy’s place in it.

Strategic Planning and Equity and Justice – Avoiding the Common Gaps

Nonprofits: Identify and eliminate common issues in your strategic planning process. Will be touching on the issues that derail community impact the advancement of equity and justice for communities that are historically disadvantaged and excluded. Read more ...

By |2021-11-03T18:55:32-04:00November 1, 2021|Blog, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Improvement|Comments Off on Strategic Planning and Equity and Justice – Avoiding the Common Gaps

Prioritize What Makes Change Happen – Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice: Principle Three

Change Levers are everywhere. Knowing which ones will create systems change is key to Equity and Justice. Read more.

By |2021-09-24T15:43:22-04:00September 24, 2021|Blog, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Improvement|Comments Off on Prioritize What Makes Change Happen – Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice: Principle Three

Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice: Principle Two

In foundations’ strategic planning and strategy for programs and initiatives, it’s common to gloss over what causes disparities, how, and why. In other words, the root causes. Recognize this as the big problem to solve in Principle Two

By |2021-09-30T08:04:47-04:00September 17, 2021|Blog, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Improvement|Comments Off on Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice: Principle Two

Introducing Five Principles for Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice

Five principles for advancing Equity and Justice in philanthropy. Principle One: Moving past the lens view to lead with Equity and Justice

By |2021-09-30T08:03:58-04:00September 2, 2021|Blog, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Improvement|Comments Off on Introducing Five Principles for Philanthropic Strategy that Advances Equity and Justice

Why Strategy for Equity and Justice?

Most strategy development suffers from a number of issue that derail the best intentions when it comes to Equity and Justice. In this continuing series, I'm providing solutions to the seven most common strategy traps. Read more ...

By |2021-08-24T11:45:38-04:00August 19, 2021|Blog, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Improvement|Comments Off on Why Strategy for Equity and Justice?

Strategy That Advances Equity & Justice: Five Principles

The challenges of philanthropy include allocating resources while balancing [...]

By |2021-08-19T16:37:54-04:00May 20, 2021|Blog|Comments Off on Strategy That Advances Equity & Justice: Five Principles
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