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Census 2020: Your Family Foundation Needs to Engage

Monday, January 28, 2019
... of any size to invest their work locally or nationally as we get closer to the 2020 census. The  Funders Census ... and what help is available to determine what your family foundation can and should do near census time. I particularly ... Gunther Osborn is Chief Strategy Officer and Sr. Vice President of United Philanthropy Forum. She joined the Forum ...
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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. ... mission investing , and Wahl wasn’t the only one. As the  Patricia Kind Family Foundation’s  former ...

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 ... their mission through time,” said Kathleen P. Enright, President and CEO of the Council on Foundations, and George ... maintenance of spending in a highly uncertain environment as well as incremental spending focused on COVID-19 needs. ...

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 ... and women, addressing educational and racial inequities as well as engaging and empowering members of their ...

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 Philanthropy Board of Directors. As Director of Endowment & Foundation Advisory at Glenmede, ... Services and the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern New Jersey, where she previously served as president. She is ...

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 ... . The working group meets several times a year to serve as an informal forum for sharing information and growing ... determined. Our hope is that this group not only discovers new ways to support their mission, but identifies ...

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 ... projects. Investors can participate in the fund for as little as $1,000. The paperwork is simple to complete, but ... grant can help orient investment decisionmakers to a new way of thinking about deploying financial resources. Some ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... make leadership reflect the people you're serving. Seybert Foundation Board of Directors When BoardSource’s most ... gender, professional experience and more. Even so — and as the BoardSource report found — board diversity isn’t ... 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
... missions — our north star — while finding new and creative ways to work together in order to amplify ... core values that guide us and give our work meaning, both as individuals and organizations” Sidney Hargro, who became ... reason why he’s commonly referred to throughout the web as the original “ Roving Listener .”) Here were the three ...

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

Happy Hour
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
... conference, and he swears by the “happy hour” format as a great way for nonprofit leaders to unwind and connect on ... 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 ...

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 Philadelphia, ... one at a tony luncheon at the New York Public Library as they and seven other recipients accepted the 2017 Carnegie ...
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Chesco Women’s Commission & Fund for Women and Girls releases findings of survey on sexual harassment in the workplace

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... few to be done in any community,” said Wendy Leeper, President of the Chester County Women’s Commission and ... County Fund for Women and Girls and other key non-profits, as well as the county’s universities and high schools to begin ...