Grantmaking organizations (GMOs) exert considerable influence on education systems, public policy, and its administration. We position the work of GMOs—in the distribution and management of funds for the public good—as a form of public management. Using recent work on racialized organizations from sociology, critical theories of race, and institutional theory, we address the role of GMOs in dismantling or reproducing inequalities. In doing, so we develop a new construct—racialized change work—to refer to the purposive action that organizations take to build new, equitable organizational arrangements or tear down old, inequitable ones. We develop quantifiable and testable propositions for how racialized change work might spread (engagement), how it might stick (institutionalization), and what effects it may have on producing equitable outcomes (impact). We build these propositions in the context of U.S. higher education and demonstrate their portability across areas of public policy and administration. We conclude with a discussion of our contributions back to the theories from which we draw and their relationship to public administration.

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拆除或掩饰种族化？：在高等教育资助背景下定义种族化变革工作

资助组织 (GMO) 对教育系统、公共政策及其管理产生了相当大的影响。我们将转基因生物的工作——在公益资金的分配和管理中——定位为一种公共管理形式。利用社会学、种族批判理论和制度理论中关于种族化组织的最新研究，我们探讨了转基因生物在消除或再现不平等中的作用。在这样做的过程中，我们开发了一个新的概念——种族化变革工作——指的是组织为建立新的、公平的组织安排或拆除旧的、不公平的安排而采取的有目的的行动。我们针对种族化变革工作如何传播（参与）、它如何坚持（制度化）制定可量化和可测试的命题，以及它可能对产生公平结果（影响）产生什么影响。我们在美国高等教育的背景下构建了这些命题，并展示了它们在公共政策和管理领域的可移植性。最后，我们讨论了我们对我们从中得出的理论的贡献以及它们与公共行政的关系。