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Weekly COVID-19 Funder Briefing #9
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action
ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities (ABFE), recently conducted a study to learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their interactions with institutional philanthropy.
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practical Guide centers the perspectives of racial justice activists first, and then of funders working on change in their institutions, to identify best practices for driving philanthropy beyond racial equity toward racial justice.
Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
In Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking, we look at why and how funders are engaging in participatory grantmaking and shifting decision-making power to the very communities impacted by funding decisions. Through examples and insights from a diverse range of participatory grantmakers, we explore the benefits, challenges, and models of participatory grantmaking.
Race, Class, AND Gender: Intersectional Approaches to Social Justice Funding
Corporate Roundtable
Participatory Grantmaking Session #2
United Way Receives More Than $1 Million from Lincoln Financial Group Employees for Sixth Straight Year
Lincoln Financial Group announced that its employees have raised approximately $1.1 million for United Way organizations across the country during its annual month-long campaign, which took place in October 2018.
Keystone Policy Webinar Series - Session 5: Combating Pennsylvania’s Opioid Epidemic
Education Funders Roundtable: Pathways to College and Career Readiness
2020 SPARX Conference
Keystone Policy Webinar Series - Session 4: Financially Distressed Municipalities
Philanthropy’s Imperative: How to Discuss White Supremacy with Staff, Boards, and Nonprofit Partners
Getting to 100%: Our Journey to Mission Alignment
Philadelphia Foundation announces the 2022 Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia Honorees
2019 SPARX Conference
Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
For a decade, Knight Foundation has been intentional about identifying high quality, diversely-owned asset managers when investing its endowment. In response to frequent questions from a variety of stakeholders into the performance of the charitable sector regarding this issue — the questions arising from the general lack of data — Knight Foundation asked Global Economics Group to assess the representation of diverse asset managers among foundations.
GSK names 23rd annual IMPACT Award Winners
What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice
An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to one that centers equity/racial equity, so that it is more aligned with the values and intentions of current day philanthropic endeavors.