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Fireside Chat with Tonya Allen, Skillman Foundation
As CEO of the Skillman Foundation, Tonya Allen's work centers on pursuing, executing and investing in ideas that improve her hometown of Detroit and increase opportunities for its people, especially children, who live in under-resourced communities.
DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | The Missing Link: How to Use Your Endowment to Advance Economic & Social Justice
DAY 3 GENERAL SESSION | Moving Forward with SPARX: Reflect, share and think through lessons learned
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Equitable Grantmaking Is A Thing? How Using Demographic Data Can Help
Morning Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Minority & Immigrant Local Businesses Amidst COVID-19 - A Call to Action
DAY 2 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Drexel University’s Action for Early Learning: Creating Circles of Support for Children and Families in Philadelphia | Presented by William Penn Foundation
Since 2014, the Action for Early Learning (AFEL) Initiative has worked to provide more equitable access to quality early childhood education in the high-need, high-poverty neighborhood of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone. As Drexel University’s early learning improvement initiative, AFEL has created a place-based model that puts the child at the center of an early childhood education eco-system, which now has 35% more children in high quality care since its inception.
Interview with Dr. Alandra Washington, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Philanthropy Network's incoming president Christine Robinson will interview Dr. Alandra Washington, Vice President, Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on developing an intentional equity culture in a foundation.
One Journey: Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Opening Session | Radical Imagination: Seizing the Moment to Create a Movement
Over the next four days, you will join your community to begin the process of re-envisioning our collective future and exploring bold new ways we can work together to build a more just and equitable Greater Philadelphia. Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia President Sidney Hargro, Philanthropy Network Chair Ashley Del Bianco, and your SPARX Facilitators, Eric M Bailey and Yvonne Moore will share with you where Philanthropy Network is currently and where it is moving to and more importantly, how you are key to creating a movement.
KEYNOTE | Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose - Jennifer Ching, North Star Fund
Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose
Why are grassroots movements so effective and how can your organization learn and support them? Jennifer Ching, the Executive Director of North Star Fund, will share her organization’s experience in creating people-powered philanthropy that mobilizes resources towards social justice movements.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Coaching for Our Communities
“Leaders are made, not born.” – Vince Lombardi
Given the challenges facing the world and the people leading change, nurturing thoughtful, secure, open-minded leaders is imperative for equitable outcomes for our organizations and communities. But how do we develop the leadership of people within our communities, especially those that are marginalized and under-resourced?
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Blueprint for a Better Safety Net: Participatory Grantmaking in Action
Join us as we discuss a participatory planning effort to redesign the social safety net in order to better weather the COVID-19 pandemic and address deeply rooted racial and social inequities. In this session, HealthSpark Foundation staff, a nonprofit participant, and a community partner will discuss their experiences in this community-driven process, share lessons learned from building collective vision during this momentous time in history, and outline key actions their organization will be taking as a result of this work.
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Using Data to Guide Nonprofits through an Uncertain Future…
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Tackling Housing Justice
For the 100 million Americans — especially people of color, living at or below 200 percent of the poverty level — housing costs and homelessness pose one of the most fundamental threats to our ability to thrive as a nation. Many factors have contributed to the root causes of the current state of housing, including racially-biased government policies, systems, and structures; predatory capital practices and speculative markets; land and building costs; and extreme income inequality have all played a role in creating the affordability crisis we are experiencing today.
DAY 2 CONCURRENT SESSION | Power-building, Trust, and Co-creation: the Role of a Community Action Team in Equitable Grantmaking
This session will focus on the role and experience of the Community Action Team for the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund. The session will explore how the creation and facilitation of the Community Action Team incorporated power-building strategies and principles of trust-based philanthropy. This focus created a space for open and dynamic dialogue that centered justice and liberation.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Philanthropic-Private Partnerships: New Models for Delivering Impact through Technology
The COVID-19 Pandemic has created new challenges for our sector, but it has also brought perennial problems to the forefront. Two areas loom large: How do we help nonprofits build capacity around digital engagement, particularly at a time when in-person activity is limited, so they can build relationships with current and potential supporters? How can nonprofits and foundations assess the impact of their efforts beyond their own organizations and build momentum toward moving the needle on recalcitrant problems on a citywide, regional, or state level? How can philanthropic dollars be coo
Lunch & Keynote Address with Liz Dozier, Chicago Beyond
In 2016, Liz Dozier launched Chicago Beyond, an impact investor that backs the fight for youth equity by fueling ideas, organizations, and people.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Bridging Information Divides and Elevating Narratives: How Resolve Philly Does Community Engagement
Resolve Philly exists to challenge the field of journalism to be equitable, collaborative, and informed by community voices and solutions. As one of the driving forces behind Resolve Philly, our Community Engagement (CE) team directly engages with and broadens the visibility of communities who are not afforded the tools and mechanisms to elevate their own narratives.