Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love - Anti-Black Racism in the Charitable Sector by Nneka Allen (Author), Camila Vital Nunes Pereira (Editor), Nicole Salmon (Editor)

Top 10 Book of 2020, Charity Report Literary Circle
Gold Winner, 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award, Cultural & Diversity
Gold Winner, 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award, Collection of Short Stories/Essays

Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love—Anti-Black Racism in the Charitable Sector is a collection of 15 first-person narratives shared by accomplished Black fundraisers and equity, racial, and social justice advocates, documenting their experiences confronting and surviving racism working in charitable and philanthropic spaces across North America. With searing and intimate detail, they write about their experiences with anti-Black racism: from coping with being last hired, first fired, and overlooked for promotion to outright hostility in toxic workplaces. Their testimonies chip away at the idea of the inherent goodness of the charitable sector.

In addition to the editors Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira, and Nicole Salmon, contributors to Collecting Courage include: Birgit Smith Burton, Christal M. Cherry, Kishshana Palmer, Heba Mahmoud, Mide Akerewusi, Naimah Bilal, Niambi Martin-John, Fatou Jammeh, Muthoni Kariuki, Sherrie James, Nicole E. Cozier, and Marva Wisdom.