“Philanthropy is a strange place.” Those are perhaps the kindest words Se-ah-dom Edmo can offer about her chosen field of work. Traditional grant making, she says, doles out inherited white wealth by the thimble with little, if any, directed to address systems underlying an unjust society. “Name a social ill that’s been solved through philanthropy,” she says. “I can’t think of one. We need to do things differently.” Edmo joined the grant-making ranks four years ago, becoming executive director o...