About the webinar... 

Overcoming Blind Spots: Advising for Equity in Philanthropy

Join Ben Barge from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) in an interactive discussion about ways that advisors in philanthropy can deconstruct unhelpful power dynamics and advance true equity in philanthropy. Offering examples from personal experience, Field Director Ben Barge will lead an interactive discussion about how race, gender, power and privilege factor into philanthropic work every day. With learnings from NCRP's initiatives, including Black Funding Denied, a recent report on community foundation giving to intentionally benefit Black communities, participants will leave with a better understanding of the realities of engaging across lines of difference and how to influence their institutions’ work for systemic change.

About the presenter...

Ben Barge Field Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) As Field Director, Ben strengthens NCRP’s relationships with U.S. social movements and philanthropic organizations to move money and power to community-led advocacy and organizing. Ben manages the Movement Investment Project and leads NCRP’s external engagement with the pro-immigrant, pro-refugee movement. He also oversees staff travel and presentations for NCRP’s major initiatives. Prior to joining NCRP, Ben worked at the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, where he facilitated grantmaking and special projects around the racial and gender wealth gap, democracy, criminalization, environmental advocacy and public education. Ben hails from Georgia, and received his undergraduate degree in political science and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.