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Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019
... activists first, and then of funders working on change in their institutions, to identify best practices for driving ... their work into more ambitious territory that includes power building and structural transformation. Through ... and solutions for advancing racial justice grantmaking in any philanthropic setting. Grantmaking with a Racial ...

What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice

Published: 
10/2018

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.

COVID-19: Nelson Foundation's Grantee Communications

Published: 
04/2020
... rely on your foundation's transparency and timeliness in response. Direct and open lines of communication are ...
17May2018

NCFP Webinar: Family Philanthropy Services: Making the Case, Measuring the Impact

Thursday, May 17, 2018
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar
An increasing number of community foundations provide services that actively involve multiple generations or family branches in giving, granting, learning, investing, and/or volunteering ... them to like-minded philanthropists, and – through the power of endowment – ensures their good work continues ...
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19Apr2018

NCFP Webinar: Civil Conversations in Uncivil Times

Thursday, April 19, 2018
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
... divisive. What roles can family foundations play in finding ways to support meaningful dialogue across “party lines” within their community? Is this role appropriate for family foundations? ... more than 20 years of experience as an innovative leader in family wealth consulting. Courtney specializes in working ...
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Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
Published: 
02/2020
... asset managers when investing its endowment. In response to frequent questions from a variety of ... endowment investments managed by investment firms based in the United States, amounting to $63.95 billion in invested assets (“Analyzed AUM”). The study found: ...

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019
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 ...
06Oct2021

2021 SPARX Conference

SPARX 2021
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 to Friday, October 8, 2021
... can continue to work together and move forward together, in solidarity. As a network and as a region, we have a chance ... year's event is to provide attendees with the vision, community and tools to enact change. As a social sector: ... in which we embrace intersectionality and act to shift power for equity. As organizations: Permanently move away ...
11Jan2018

NCFP Webinar: Valuing the Family in Family Philanthropy

Thursday, January 11, 2018
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
... families may feel like they are losing the family identity in their giving. How does one keep the family in family ... Family Foundation. Her research publications include The Power to Produce Wonders: The Value of Family in Philanthropy ... work on family philanthropy, Ginny edited Conscience and Community: The Legacy of Paul Ylvisaker, the writings and ...
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17Apr2020

Participatory Grantmaking Session #2

Friday, April 17, 2020
10:00am - 12:00pm
Video Conference
... Network members, please join us for the second session in our collaborative learning series on participatory ... Fund for Women and Girls will share more about their Community Grantmaking Committee process.  During the second ... the sector. RESOURCES: Guide: Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking - ...

Philadelphia Impact Investment Landscape Scan

Philadelphia Impact Investment Scan Exec Summary
Published: 
05/2019
In July 2018, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia ... Barra Foundation to assess the impact investing ecosystem in the Philadelphia area. Through a series of interviews, ... Urbane Development gathered input from key stakeholders in the Philadelphia region who are involved (or want to be ...
13Dec2018

21st Century Leadership: Learn from NCFP’s Fellows

Thursday, December 13, 2018
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
... Philanthropy created its Fellows program to honor leaders in family philanthropy and nurture a generation of new ... the needs of communities being served, managing the power and privilege of your position while working on the ... manager at Self-Help, the nation's largest nonprofit community development lender, and served in senior positions ...
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04Jun2020

The Crisis of White Supremacy in America: What’s Philanthropy’s Role?

Thursday, June 4, 2020
9:00am - 10:30am
Video Conference
... traumatic white supremacy over the lives of Black people in this country. What will it take for America to finally and ... we must speak truth to philanthropy’s complicity in the advancement of white supremacist culture and thinking ... Network) Resource Suite: Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking ...

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

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... is grappling with a number of unavoidable realities around power, equity and insularity. Philanthropy Network Greater ... to address racial inequities and better support their community. Mission-aligned investing pools resources from ... change using a racial equity lens. This post (the first in a series) will outline Philanthropy Network’s goal, ...
09Mar2017

Small Foundations and the New Administration: State & Federal Laws to Watch

Thursday, March 9, 2017
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Philadelphia, PA
In collaboration with Philanthropy Network Greater ... DC. Our country is in transition. With the shift of power in the White House, now is the time to learn about what ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... the diversity of nonprofit boards hasn't increased in two decades. But some local foundations are heeding the ... not over and it’s going to have to keep evolving.” ### Community College of Philadelphia Foundation (CCPF) ... it that we’re serving, and how do you give those voices power in your organizations? How do you build those bridges ...
18Jun2020

32nd Annual Members' Meeting: Envisioning a Trust-Based Future for Philanthropy

Thursday, June 18, 2020
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Virtual Convening
... and more foundations coming to terms with the entrenched power imbalances we’ve inherited or inadvertently helped ... Director, New Century Trust Nadia Hewka , Staff Attorney, Community Legal Services Shanell Ransom , Program Officer, ... Alliance Now more than ever, it's critical that we invest in people and relationships as a means to driving a ...

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