She chairs the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and has chaired the boards of the Washington Performing Arts Society, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the national YWCA. She is currently on the board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Washington Ballet.
Philanthropy, contends Jackson, is empowering for African Americans and other minorities because it gives them entree into establishment power structures where they can effect real change.
Jeong H. Kim, who sold Yurie Systems for $1 billion, has donated millions to education.
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"When you are part of the giving, you are part of the decision-making," she says. But, she says, "you've got to pay to play."
Recently, several groups have launched initiatives to increase philanthropy among various racial and ethnic communities.
In New York City, the three-year-old Coalition for New Philanthropy is trying to get African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans to open their wallets wider.
"There is an increase in the number of individuals of color who have attained some education and financial success, and they're saying, 'I don't have the ways of giving back that my parents did,' " says Erica Hunt, co-chair of the coalition and executive director of the 21st Century Foundation, an African American philanthropic fund.
The coalition has held hundreds of hour-long seminars at meetings of professional associations, social clubs, language schools, volunteer associations and alumni groups in various racial and ethnic communities in the city.
The workshops instruct would-be donors on the ins and outs of such philanthropic staples as donor-advised funds, "giving circles," planned giving and how to evaluate nonprofits.
"The goal is to really inform people on how to give back [to their communities] and the vehicles for giving back," Hunt said.
In the Washington area, such groups as Hispanics in Philanthropy, Asian Americans in Philanthropy and the Black Philanthropic Alliance have been formed in the past year to encourage philanthropy in those communities, as well as to push charitable foundations to award more grants to nonprofit groups that work with the needy in those communities.
