OUR SIGNATURE FUNDS IN 2023
To mark its 80th anniversary in 2021, inland empire community foundation spotlighted and promoted eight new and existing Signature Funds through events, media, and donor engagement. These are the funds and the meaningful impacts they’re making for the people of the inland empire:
BLACK EQUITY FUND
The Inland Empire Black Equity Fund supports nonprofit organizations and initiatives led by and serving the region’s Black community. Created in 2020 in partnership with the Inland Empire Black Equity Initiative and Inland Empire Funders Alliance, the Fund was seeded by IECF and The California Endowment. It has surpassed its initial $5 million fundraising goal by $1 million and completed two rounds of . . .
PAULETTE BROWN-HINDS, PHD
ADVOCATE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM
Following a path that seemed destined early on, Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD, is passionate about journalism, especially local journalism. When the IECF Board Member and former Board Chair was still in middle school, her family began publishing the Black Voice News in Riverside. Today, Paulette heads up Voice Media Ventures, a multimedia company she founded.
Her accomplishments in the field have garnered accolades and opportunities. Paulette was named a Stanford University JSK Senior Journalism Fellow in 2022–23. She spent the academic year in the residential fellowship program at the esteemed university working on practical solutions to address the news industry’s long-standing neglect of underserved . . .
