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What Barra Foundation has learned from dipping a toe into mission investing

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
...  | by  Julie Zeglen In the past year and a half, the foundation has employed two new investing strategies. Here's what it's learned so far. ... of the process  on its website .  Wahl said the Barra staff got the green light from its board to explore projects ...

Census 2020: Your Family Foundation Needs to Engage

Monday, January 28, 2019
... and what help is available to determine what your family foundation can and should do near census time. I particularly ... it is important for not only philanthropy and your family foundation, but for our democracy. I would encourage your family foundation to align your investment with your grantees and ...
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Patricia Kind Family Foundation announces Black-led Organization grant award winners

Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The Patricia Kind Family Foundation (PKFF) initiated a new grant cycle specifically for Black-led organizations in Philadelphia. The Foundation made a concerted effort to reach out and to ...

National Study Reports Foundations Maintained or Increased Spending in 2020; Long-Term Investment Returns Held Steady

2020 Council on Foundations–Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations® (CCSF)
Monday, August 23, 2021
... net of fees.) L onger-term returns were mixed for the two foundation types: Private foundations reported an average ... ASSET ALLOCATION SHOWS LITTLE CHANGE Private and Community Foundation Allocations Differ Asset allocation changed little ... is outsourced also rose, reaching 88 percent of private foundation portfolios and 93 percent of community foundation ...

Glenmede’s Nina L. Cohen Appointed to Exponent Philanthropy Board of Directors

Nina L. Cohen
Thursday, October 11, 2018
... pleased to announce Nina L. Cohen, Director of Endowment & Foundation Advisory , has been appointed to the Exponent ... Services and the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern New Jersey, where she previously served as president. She is ... only one dedicated to serving foundations with few or no staff, philanthropic families, and individual donors. Our ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... schools, to health clinics, to arts venues. The Barra Foundation discovered a great onramp to local investing in a ...  is a $90-million foundation, with three full-time staff, that invests in the Greater Philadelphia region. At  ... grant can help orient investment decisionmakers to a new way of thinking about deploying financial resources. Some ...

Mission-Aligned Investing: A model for maximizing philanthropic impact and equity

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... in 2017 from Laura Kind Mckenna, Patricia Kind Family Foundation , and Elizabeth Killough, and the Untours ... and get practical advice.  Also having Board members and staff together “in the room” is critical.  The Executive ... determined. Our hope is that this group not only discovers new ways to support their mission, but identifies ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Via Generocity  | By Julie Zeglen, Staff.    Nationally, the diversity of nonprofit boards ... make leadership reflect the people you're serving. Seybert Foundation Board of Directors When BoardSource’s most ... longtime board members to roll off and make room for new members. “No matter what your board’s diversity is, ...

Future-focused takeaways from the 2017 Philanthropy Network conference

Friday, November 3, 2017
By  Albert Hong  / STAFF via Generocity  What a year, huh? Last ... missions — our north star — while finding new and creative ways to work together in order to amplify ... Sidney Hargro, who became Philanthropy Network’s new ED this past July, kicked things off by asking conference ...

Funder/Nonprofit Happy Hour: Connecting the PEOPLE behind the roles

Happy Hour
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
... Member Engagement Committee members Robyn Herman , Rostair Foundation and Shanell Ransom , Samuel S. Fels Fund, along ... Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy , and Philadelphia Foundation , and the invitation proactively emphasized ... supposed to talk about work—they weren’t attending as foundation people, or nonprofit people—but as people, just ...

Philadelphia's Lenfests receive Carnegie Medal for their extraordinary philanthropy

Thursday, October 5, 2017
... at the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy luncheon at the New York Public Library. NEW YORK — As patrons and major supporters of the arts in ... afternoon they received one at a tony luncheon at the New York Public Library as they and seven other recipients ...
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