{"id":225843,"date":"2025-09-30T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insidephilanthropy.com\/?p=225843"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:50:57","slug":"anti-hate-conference-highlights-the-funding-struggle-as-violence-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidephilanthropy.com\/home\/anti-hate-conference-highlights-the-funding-struggle-as-violence-escalates","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Hate Summit Highlights the Funding Struggle As Violence Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Three days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in Utah, an international group of advocates, business people, faith leaders, academics and others gathered 1,800 miles away in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to address the ongoing struggle to prevent and heal from hate-based violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit, which was held from Sept. 15 to 17, brought a wide range of speakers and perspectives together. Keynote speaker Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic governor, was introduced by former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett. Other speakers included former intelligence professionals, leaders from four of the world\u2019s faith traditions and people from several countries, including the U.S., on the front lines of the movement to prevent and recover from hate-based violence. Session topics and speakers included an update on hate-related violence committed against people because of their \u201cidentity-based characteristics,\u201d individuals who had backed away from violence either before or after perpetrating it, and hate crime survivors talking about their work to prevent others from being victimized in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eradicate Hate summit itself benefits from philanthropic supporters including, this year<\/a>,\u00a0the Richard King Mellon Foundation<\/a>, the Jones Day law firm and the Jones Day Foundation, the Heinz Endowments<\/a> and the Fine Foundation. Look more broadly, however, and there are clear signs that nonprofits focused on preventing and healing from violent hate crimes are facing severe threats to their funding even as hate-based violence remains a deadly problem in the United States<\/a> and abroad<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every quarter, said Bedrock<\/a> President Ryan Greer, his organization asks its 67 partners what their top priorities and challenges are. Bedrock was founded about two years ago<\/a> to combat hate-fueled violence in the U.S. and support organizations pursuing that mission. \u201cAnd every quarter, they tell us their top challenges here in the U.S. are resourcing related. \u2026 Almost always, our partners will tell us fundraising is their top challenge,\u201d Greer said during a session called \u201cShared Priorities: Aligning Practitioners and Funders,\u201d a transcript of which was provided to Inside Philanthropy by Eradicate Hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThink about that for a second,\u201d Greer continued. \u201cWhen faced with the question, essentially, of \u2018is it harder to counter Nazis or fundraise?\u2019 American practitioners will tell you: fundraising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem, Greer said, is compounded by the fact that, in the U.S., 64% of funding for the prevention of hate and political violence comes from the federal government. Those funds have evaporated. The Trump administration has cut funding for programs including terrorism prevention<\/a>, gun violence prevention<\/a> and hate-crimes-related training<\/a>, further heightening the need for philanthropy to step up. Greer also said that internationally, other nations\u2019 governments are tightening their belts in response to widespread economic upheavals, leaving less funding to combat hate-fueled violence abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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