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Announcing a Leadership Transition at the Weissberg Foundation

The Weissberg Foundation Board of Trustees and Executive Director Ricshawn Adkins Roane are writing together to share an important leadership update.
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Responding to the Moment: Doubling Down on our Commitment to Strengthening Movements

In March, our Board of Directors authorized the Foundation to release an additional $10 million in surge funding for 2025—more than doubling our planned annual grant spend to $19.6 million dollars.
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Tamara Copeland

(she/her)
Independent Trustee

In 2019, Tamara retired as president of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers where she envisioned and implemented “Putting Racism on the Table”. Currently, she co-facilitates The Onion Dialogues, a racial justice training. In 2018, her memoir, Daughters of the Dream: Eight Girls from Richmond who grew up in the Civil Rights Era was published. Her latest book is REVEALED: A Once a Week Reading on Racism, Prejudice and Bias. She loves walking and traveling, having visited all fifty states and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.