See for yourself

Google Earth is a free download, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides a layers file containing the project data.

1. Download and open Google Earth
2. Download and open the layers file

You should now see Darfur, with flame icons representing destroyed villages. Click, drag, and zoom to investigate.

• In the list of layers, under Primary Database – Global Awareness, will be USHMM: Crisis in Darfur containing several layers you can turn on and off.
• To zoom and center on Darfur, double-click the USHMM: Crisis in Darfur layer in the list.
• When clicking on an icon overlapping others, they will spread apart and you will need to click the target again.

Elsewhere

There’s been so much coverage of this project I hesitated to post—until I noticed most of the coverage didn’t have good links for people wanting to see for themselves.

The Ogle Earth blog has a comprehensive post with information and links for traditional media coverage.

…and part two.

What counts as a minority-led nonprofit organization?

A minority-led nonprofit is defined as one whose staff is 50 percent of [sic] more minority; whose board is 50 percent or more is minority; and whose mission statement and charitable programs aim to predominately serve and empower minority communities. The organization must meet all three criteria to be considered minority-led.

Minority-led nonprofit organization implies the same as minority-owned business; predominantly minority nonprofit organizations would be more accurate, or if humor were legal in the nonprofit sector: majority minorities.

How little is going to minority-led organizations?

They document that 14.7% of grant money from philanthropic organizations goes to minority-led organizations, or 3.6% if you choose not to count the largest grant. To learn anything about the granting foundations, we must compare the ratio of spending to the ratio of minority-led capacity.

As with our prior report, information on the number of minority-led nonprofits within the sector as a whole is unknown.

I’ve still a bruise on my jaw and dent in my desk from reading that, but it’s good to see humor in the nonprofit sector, after all.

No conclusion available

If I had to, I’d guess there is inequity in foundation grants to charities with minority leaders and charities focused on minority goals. But, after watching and reading the Greenlining media—that’s all I can do, guess.