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About Kien Lee

Dr. Kien S. Lee has expertise in promoting equity, inclusion, and cultural competency for health, , food security, civic engagement, and leadership development. She has experience as a capacity builder, evaluator, and researcher working with federal and local government agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that are striving to effect community and systems change. She is seen as a thought leader in work that occurs at the nexus of evaluation and racial equity and presents and writes extensively about how evaluation can be scientifically rigorous and supportive of racial equity at the same time. At Community Science, Kien provides strategic and technical direction for the evaluation of health and racial equity projects. In her spare time, Kien enjoys drawing and painting, cooking, and traveling to historical places around the world.

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?

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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.

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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

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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 [...]

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