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Thus, the Foundation also has a focus on work that cuts across two or more of the priority areas.ĥ. The Foundation recognizes that an organization’s work may, in fact, fit in more than one priority area. What if my organization's work falls within more than one of the priority areas? Can you provide more description about each of the four priority areas? “Fostering Systems Change.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nov. This particular strategy, however, is focused on systemic change at the state level, meaning that the systems being changed are systems that affect North Carolinians across the state. Furthermore, systemic change can happen at many levels, and ZSR fully expects that much of the work it will fund across its major strategies will be for systemic change. Rather, we seek to support efforts aimed at making “fundamental change in policies, processes, relationships and power structures, as well as values and norms” that impair the quality of life for North Carolinians. What do you mean by systems and state-level systemic change?īy “system,” we are referring to: various groups and institutions the policies, processes, relationships and power structures that support them and the values and beliefs that undergird them.īy “state-level systemic change,” we mean something different than reform or piecemeal policy change. LGBTQ refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.Ģ. The Foundation seeks to help build the capacity of its grantees in this strategy to work better together in service of the above-stated vision.

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We will give particular emphasis to work targeted at improving opportunities and outcomes for populations who have been historically marginalized, subjected to systemic discrimination, or excluded from full participation in society, including, but not limited to: We will support grantees using one or more approaches, including, but not limited to: Fostering a Healthy and Sustainable Environment.Under this area of work, we will support state, regional and local organizations, coalitions, or collaboratives working to achieve systemic change at the state level within and across the following priority areas: Each organization has a role to play as an agent of change, and it is our collective work and the willingness to work together that helps sustain change. In particular, we believe that working together across issues, approaches, populations, and constituencies is necessary to create lasting systemic change.

Therefore, the Foundation, consistent with our core values, seeks to partner with others to help change state-level systems in ways that overcome those barriers and thereby help improve the quality of life for all North Carolinians. We recognize that there are systemic and structural barriers in place, particularly regarding race, that disadvantage some North Carolinians from realizing this vision ( stated above), even as they advantage others. What does the Foundation's State-Level Systemic Change Strategy include? Therefore, we desire for ALL North Carolinians to have access to high-quality education, to benefit from a healthy and sustainable environment, to enjoy economic opportunity under just and fair rules and to be able to engage fully in civic life.ġ. Smith Reynolds Foundation believes that all of North Carolina benefits when every North Carolinian has the resources and opportunities to achieve their full potential and when each person’s worth and dignity is affirmed.