TNP Launch of Recruitment of Leaders of Color

On December 6th, we hosted 65 of the city’s most engaged Leaders of Color to share The New Philanthropists action plan and invite them to participate. The event served as a launchpad to our work in recruiting 100 People of Color to serve on mainstream nonprofit boards.  Thank you St. David’s Foundation for supporting our work and Bank of America & One Voice Central Texas for […]

TNP: Call to Leadership

We’re excited to be hosting TNP: Call to Leadership this week. We’ll be gathering Leaders of Color in Austin to discuss diversity and leadership in the nonprofit sector and ways we can make Austin a more inclusive community.

Speaker Series with Michael Smith

We’re taking this conversation to the next level, next week. And you’re invited.  GivingCity and Mando Rayo have partnered with Kazique Prince, PhD, of Jelani Consulting (and a senior policy advisor to Mayor Steve Adler) to bring a national speaker to Austin on Tuesday, March 8.  Michael Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs for […]

July 28: New Philanthropists Panel Discussion by GivingCity Austin

More than 150 people joined GivingCity and Mando Rayo + Collective for the inaugural event of The New Philanthropists, featuring a thoughtful panel including Christopher Kennedy of Leadership Austin, Erica Saenz of UT Division of Diversity an Community Engagement, Ken Gladish of Seton Foundations; Llyas Saluhud-Din of VChain Solutions, Sonia Kotecha of CASA of Travis County, and Virginia Cumberbatch of […]

About our launch event, July 28

Since 2000, Mando Rayo has been developing a project to address the leadership gap between Latinos, African-Americans and Asians and mainstream nonprofit boards. Concurrently, GivingCity has been promoting social innovators of color through a regular feature called The New Philanthropists. In the fall of 2014, GivingCity Austin and Mando Rayo + Collective formed a partnership to launch The New Philanthropists Project by meeting with […]