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Smart Grantmaking Practices: Understanding Nonprofit Financials and Full Cost Funding
At our 2016 fall conference, the breakout session True Costs of Excellence: Getting to Better Outcomes highlighted the shift occurring nationally among leading foundations to address the overhead myth and acknowledge the true or full
Small Foundations and the New Administration: State & Federal Laws to Watch
In collaboration with Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, the Exponent Philanthropy Local Engagement Group (LEG) invites you to join Philadelphia-area funders for a legal update with Andras Kosaras, Esq., Counsel at
Food Funders Annual Planning and Reflections Meeting
Join the Greater Philadelphia Food Funders for our Annual Planning and Reflections meeting as we reflect on what we've done in the past year and plan for the coming year.
Equity in Philanthropy Event
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) remains a major issue, that members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, indicate they want to learn more about and work towards. But it's not so simple. DEI means different things to different people. And, strategies to advance DEI are not so clear for many of us.
Arts & Culture Funders Webinar - Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy
Arts foundations and nonprofit leaders are increasingly aware of diversity and equity issues in the nonprofit cultural sector. However, despite this awareness, arts funding is getting less equitable, not more. Just 2 percent of all cultural institutions receive nearly 60 percent of all contributed revenue – up 5 percent over a decade. Funding inequities are systemic and local patterns mirror national ones.
New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits
According to a report funded by The Philadelphia Foundation that examined the financial health of local nonprofits, more than 40 percent are running at a loss or producing no surplus at all.
Small Funders Roundtable: Developing an Investment Policy Statement for Your Small Foundation
Your foundation’s grantmaking strategy is often inextricably linked to its investment strategy—but does your small foundation have an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) in place? Small foundations invest millions of dollars annually, but not all o
Get HYPE Philly- Collective Impact as a Tool for Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
GSK, in collaboration with The Philadelphia Foundation and Philanthropy Network, is excited to host this important conversation about Get HYPE Philly!, a collective impact initiative to empower the city’s youth to become leaders for healthy change.
Mission-Aligned Investing Meeting: How to work with your investment advisor
Join us for an exciting session focused on how to work with your investment advisor to align your assets with your mission.
Learning in Philanthropy: A Guidebook
This guide provides a solid basis for thinking and talking about the next steps in your organization’s learning work. It is designed to serve as a resource to help grantmakers answer critical learning questions and embed learning more deeply into the day-to-day work and cultures of their organizations.
Funder/Nonprofit Happy Hour: Connecting the PEOPLE behind the roles
Happy hour event seeks to help change the funder-nonprofit dynamic for the better.
ComNet19: Lessons on Building a Community of Communicators
The Communications Network's annual gathering offers some lessons on how to create and support an inclusive community.
Family Philanthropy Webinar Series: Family Stories and Interviewing Elders
In this webinar, discover a variety of techniques available for engaging with elders to document a family history that may be shared with generations to come.
Family Philanthropy Webinar Series: Balancing Power Dynamics
This conversation will feature a variety of practical tips for bridging the power divide with your grantees, with one another, and with other partners in your work.
Family Philanthropy Webinar Series: Pride of Place: Sustaining a Family’s Commitment to Community
What does it mean to have “pride of place”? How do giving families retain their commitment to the founding region or community where their philanthropic resources were first created?
Race, Class, AND Gender: Intersectional Approaches to Social Justice Funding
As part of its ongoing efforts to foster a more equitable philanthropic sector, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia is partnering with the Women’s Funding Collaborative to host a discussion on gender transformative philanthropy.
Family Philanthropy Webinar Series: Impact Investing: Dipping Your Toes or Going All In
Impact investing – which seeks a specific environmental, social or governance return above and beyond a strictly financial return – can be a particularly valuable tool for foundations and donor advised funds that seek to align their investments with their grantmaking mission. This webinar will discuss this investing approach, and share perspectives and examples from families who have made this choice.
Equitable Grantmaking in the Arts & Culture Sector
Please join us for Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia's next Arts & Culture Funders Group session on Tuesday, May 14th, 1:00-3:00 PM, at Philanthropy Network offices (230 S. Broad Street, Suite 402, Philadelphia, PA 19102).
Montgomery County Funders Meeting
Our next Montgomery County Funder meeting is Tuesday, July 30th from 9am to 11am at the Community Health Center (on the Abington – Lansdale Hospital campus) at 51 Medical Campus Drive, Lansdale, PA!