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Achieving Greater Truth and Impact: Unpacking Power Dynamics in Measurement and Evaluation
Weekly COVID-19 Funder Briefing #11
Out of School (OST) Community Collaborations for Collective Impact and Positive Youth Development
In recent years, the importance of the out-of-school time programming for children and youth has grown in response to the needs of working families.
Biweekly COVID-19 Funder Briefing #13
Out-of-School Time Funders Meeting: Community Collaborations for Collective Impact – A Continuing Conversation
Continuing our conversation regarding the importance of the out-of-school time programming for children and youth, this meeting will focus on the City of Philadelphia’s efforts to build a strong sense of government and community partnerships for t
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement
Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
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.
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.
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.
Benchmarking Survey: Electronic Payments to Grantees
Food Funders Meeting #1- Reality Bites: Hunger on the Rise in Philadelphia and What We Can Do About It
The Crisis of White Supremacy in America: What’s Philanthropy’s Role?
Self-Dealing: A Concise Guide For Foundation Board and Staff
An overview on the self-dealing law, including definitions, common problem areas, exceptions, penalties, and resources.
Philadelphia Impact Investment Landscape Scan
Through a series of interviews, roundtables, and a short survey, Philanthropy Network and Urbane Development gathered input from key stakeholders in the Philadelphia region who are involved (or want to be involved) in impact investing in order to better understand their priorities, needs, and challenges and to identify key opportunities to facilitate further impact investments in the region.
Walking the Talk: Values-Based Grantmaking
Grantmaking practices are some of the most public (and sometime the only) expression of grantmakers’ values. Values include what grantmakers care about, how they sees the world, and their orientation toward grantseeker partners. Despite this, grantmaking practices are not always aligned grantmakers’ values. Learn how to bring a values-based approach to your grantmaking in a workshop.