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Anchored in Place: How Funders Are Helping Anchor Institutions Strengthen Local Economies
This report by the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities examines the potential of anchor institutions hold to create lasting and sustainable change—and illustrates how funders are working with anchor institutions to create healthier, more equitable, and economically vibrant places to live and work.
Keystone Policy Webinar: Census 2020 - What PA Funders Need to Know
Keystone Policy Series: Census 2020 (4.11.19)
Small Funders Webinar: Finding and Using Data to Make Smarter Grants
This webinar features three user-friendly, online tools that funders can use to gain a better understanding of the needs and challenges in the communities where we fund, and to help us make smarter decisions when assessing grant applications and setting our goals for impact.
Guidance for Place-Based Funders to Address Political Violence Before and After the 2020 Election
This guide is designed to help local place-based funders invest quickly in leaders and organizations who are poised to address the threat of political violence around the United States election in 2020.
Census Update from the Bauman Foundation #1 (4.9.18)
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.
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.
Census Update from the Bauman Foundation #2 (4.19.18)
Fellowship Industry Report
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.
PA Statewide Funders Webinar: Equity, Real Costs, and Impact
In this webinar, David Greco, of Social Sector Partners presents on how, with better understanding of what it really costs your grantees to deliver on mission, grantmakers can better leverage their resources to support a more just, equitable and sustainable society.
2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report
In 2018, Funders for LGBTQ Issues set out to survey the board and staff of foundations in order to identify how many LGBTQ people worked in philanthropy. In the process, the organization realized that it had an opportunity to not only ask about sexual orientation and gender identity but also to inquire about a range of personal identifiers. With the inaugural Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) Survey, Funders for LGBTQ Issues asked participants to identify their role within their foundation, their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, and disability status. This report lays out the results of the DAPP survey in aggregate form.
Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Media Impact Funders has been researching trends, challenges and opportunities for global media funding.
The Status of Women in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: 2018 Report
Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges With Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions
The Democracy Collaborative’s report Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges with Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions discusses the role of anchor institutions and collaboratives in leveraging the power of their economic assets to address social and economic disparities and to revitalize local communities.
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement
Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table
Echoing Green and Bridgespan teamed up to research the depth of racial inequities in philanthropic funding.