Addressing Nonprofits’ Historical Harm to Minority Groups through Radical Transparency: Urban Displacement and the Making of a University

Abstract

How can today’s nonprofits address their past harmful actions to minorities and other vulnerable groups? This paper will present and analyze one method nonprofits can use to address this history: radical transparency. This paper will present a historical transparency project at IUPUI to address our racist history, placing it within existing public history work around radical transparency as a method of social repair, comparing to current trends in financial and governance transparency in nonprofits, and ultimately showing a broader concept of public transparency within the nonprofit sector as a valuable tool for social justice.