Orange County Grantmakers recognizes that equity requires the alignment of systems and relationships to move from inclusion towards justice. As part of the framework that guides our strategic decisions and ongoing programming, we are pleased to present the 2025 Orange County Equity Report — a highly anticipated update to 2019’s Equity Profile of Orange County that will examine demographic trends and indicators of equitable growth in the region.
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Thank you for joining us in this impactful experience! Together, we explored the latest insights and actions needed for a more equitable future. Relive the moments and highlights through the photos below.
Equity Profile Presentation
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Our Commitment to Equity

Today in Orange County, BIPOC are the majority yet face disproportionate levels of poverty, language isolation, educational attainment challenges, and barriers to civic engagement. The 2019 Equity Profile of Orange County highlighted what our region must do to lead the way on racial and economic equality. In this 2025 update, we not only review overall metrics of equity but also connect this data with local initiatives focused on DEI, housing, homelessness, and more. To build a stronger, more equitable Orange County, we must use the findings from this report to close the gaps in economic opportunity for the people and places being left behind.
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Join Us in Our Equity Journey

Orange County Grantmakers invites you to a special presentation of the 2025 Orange County Equity Report. At this event, you’ll be among the first to learn how key indicators of equity are connected to the work being done in our community to address the root causes of disparities such as income inequality, educational attainment, affordable housing, and more.

Join us as we take an important step forward in our equity journey and learn how we will use this data to align systems and relationships to move from inclusion toward justice.
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  • Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025
  • 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • The Cove @ UCI Beall Applied Innovation 5270 California Avenue, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92617

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Our Commitment to Equity

Today in Orange County, BIPOC are the majority yet face disproportionate levels of poverty, language isolation, educational attainment challenges, and barriers to civic engagement. The 2019 Equity Profile of Orange County highlighted what our region must do to lead the way on racial and economic equality. In this 2025 update, we not only review overall metrics of equity but also connect this data with local initiatives focused on DEI, housing, homelessness, and more. To build a stronger, more equitable Orange County, we must use the findings from this report to close the gaps in economic opportunity for the people and places being left behind.
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2025 Equity Profile

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Our Commitment to Equity

As a thriving leadership association for regional funders, Orange County Grantmakers advances equity by creating strategic alignment among philanthropists and nonprofits. By providing a space for funders to learn about the complex and evolving issues impacting Orange County, we are working to identify and address the root causes of inequity.

October 10th, 2024 - 8:00AM - 6:00PM
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Annual Summit Information

The OC Grantmakers Summit is returning

Please join us and be part of our “The Path Ahead: OC's Roadmap to Equity” this 2025.
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2025 OCG

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The Orange County Grantmaker’s annual summit is an opportunity for funders and non profit leaders to come together to learn, collaborate and grow.

Join us at this in-person event, as we come together to hear stories of innovation and collaboration

Annual Summit Award

Voting for the 2024 Summit Awards is now Open.

In April 2013, Orange County Grantmakers saluted founding member Sister Regina Fox for her quiet acts of kindness, advocacy, and generosity, and her tireless efforts to serve the needs of the vulnerable in Orange County. To honor her, and to recognize those leaders who follow her example, the Sister Regina Legacy Leader Award recognizes nonprofit, professional, or volunteer leaders who demonstrate humble character, a long-term commitment to Orange County’s nonprofit community, and individuals who have spent their years quietly working for the betterment of Orange County as a whole.

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The Emerging Leader Award seeks to honor an up-and-coming nonprofit and/or philanthropic professional who has made significant contributions to their field, and who has demonstrated their potential for leadership and continuing service.

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Launched in 2020, the OCG Outstanding Changemaker Award recognizes and celebrates an individual who is doing extraordinary things to make Orange County a better place to live, work, and thrive. A Changemaker is a thought-leader and doer who has developed innovative solutions to address community and/or industry challenges. This individual identified a need, and through proactive leadership, creativity, and partnership, tackled the problem.

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How do we build a compassionate and inclusive America in an age of distrust? WAJAHAT ALI knows from personal experience that when we come together to be the superheroes of our own stories, we can create honest social change. The beloved TED speaker has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic about our urgent issues—immigration, politics, parenthood—with boldness, hope, and humor. His memoir Go Back to Where You Came From, one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year, follows his life as a Muslim Pakistani-American on a surprising, emotional, and challenging quest for the good life. Iconic journalist Katie Couric says that “we are all so fortunate to be on the receiving end of his intellect, his humanity, and his heart.”

Wajahat Ali

“With wit and charm, Ali delivers a masterful meditation on growing up brown in America...he gives us a clear-eyed affirmation of the country America could be.” — Mara Gay, New York Times

Mara Gay, New York Times

Wajahat Ali uses his platform to fight tirelessly for the social change we need in our country—and he isn’t afraid to get personal while doing it. The Daily Beast columnist and former New York Times writer, TED speaker, award-winning playwright, and Peabody-nominated producer of the documentary series The Secret Life of Muslims offers us his experiences of triumph over hardship as a beacon of hope and resilience in the face of life’s impossible situations. From his experiences of Islamophobia growing up as a Muslim Pakistani-American to his two-year-old daughter’s liver cancer diagnosis, Wajahat is living proof that when we share our authentic stories, we build the America we wish to live in.”

In his memoir Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American, Wajahat teaches us how to create our own superhero origin story, invest in hope for the future of America, and enact real social change. The book was called “biting and funny and full of heart” by NPR. Representative Ilhan Omar called Wajahat’s work “hilarious” and “deeply moving”, and legendary writer Dave Eggers said it was the book he’d “been hoping Wajahat Ali would write for ten years—hilarious, stylistically fearless, deeply humane.”

Wajahat is also the author of The Domestic Crusaders—the first major play about Muslim-Americans in a post-9/11 world. He was the lead researcher and author for the Center for American Progress’s seminal report “Fear Inc., Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” and served as a national correspondent for Al Jazeera America, where he told stories about communities and individuals often marginalized or under-reported in mainstream media.

As Creative Director of Affinis Wajahat Labs, he worked to create social entrepreneurship initiatives to support and uplift marginalized communities. He also worked with the US State Department to design and implement the “Generation Change” leadership program to empower young social entrepreneurs. Wajahat initiated chapters in eight countries, including Pakistan and Singapore. For his work, he was honored as a “Generation Change Leader” by Sec. of State Clinton and recognized as an “Emerging Muslim American Artist” by the Muslim Public Affairs Council. 

He has given keynote speeches around the world such as TED, The Aspen Ideas Festival, Google, the United Nations, and The New Yorker Festival. His writing appears regularly in the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and The Guardian. He’s a Senior Fellow at The Western States Center and Auburn Seminary and co-host of Al Jazeera’s The Stream.