A look at funding outcomes and technical assistance to communities of color.
Luz Guerra, lguerra@mindspring.com
The Saguaro Grantmaking Board began this inquiry into technical assistance
and progressive organizations in communities of color in order to inform
our activism as a funding body. The research I conducted was based on two
primary questions: What are the technical assistance needs of Saguaro’s
grantees and other progressive organizations from communities of color,
and what role might the Saguaro Board play in helping these organizations
meet their technical assistance needs? The first question, on the surface,
appears simple enough to answer; ask the question, compile the answers.
Listening to the many voices of activists of color, funders and TA providers,
however, I became drawn into the complexity of their answers. Learning
about the technical assistance needs of our progressive organizations of
color is a many-layered proposition.
