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How Compliance Affects Grantseeking: A Guide for For Foundations, Nonprofits, and Fundraising Professionals

How Compliance Affects Grantseeking: A Guide for For Foundations, Nonprofits, and Fundraising Professionals
Published: 
04/2021
Many nonprofits and foundations are unaware that grant ... fundraising. Learn what grant makers and grantseekers need to know to ensure compliance, including: When and where is ...

COVID-19: Nelson Foundation's Grantee Communications

Published: 
04/2020
... valued and your partnership with your grantees is critical to their success on the ground. The Nelson Foundation has kindly agreed to share some of their COVID-19 grantee email communications ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

Published: 
12/2019
... for Black Communities (ABFE) , recently conducted a study to learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations ... philanthropy. The research had two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and well-being ... needs that institutional philan- thropic funding should address? How should staff, consultants and trustees in ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement

Published: 
03/2017
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change intends to spark new energy to vitalize and strengthen the infrastructure for Black-led ... nation’s largest foundations is specifically targeted to the Black community. Calling investment in Black-led ...

Philadelphia Impact Investment Landscape Scan

Philadelphia Impact Investment Scan Exec Summary
Published: 
05/2019
In July 2018, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia engaged Urbane Development through a grant from The Barra Foundation to assess the impact investing ecosystem in the Philadelphia ... in the Philadelphia region who are involved (or want to be involved) in impact investing in order to better ...

Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking

Published: 
10/2018
... grantmaking and shifting decision-making power to the very communities impacted by funding decisions. ...

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019
... then of funders working on change in their institutions, to identify best practices for driving philanthropy beyond ... toward racial justice. This guide will be most useful to an audience of grantmakers who have already made or are close to making racial equity commitments, and who want to drive ...

Benchmarking Survey: Electronic Payments to Grantees

Published: 
04/2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the transition to remote work has presented numerous challenges for nonprofits and foundations alike. With most grantees working ...

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

Published: 
10/2018
... evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to one that centers equity/racial equity, so that it is more ... of current day philanthropic endeavors. What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice ...

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 stakeholders into the ... is invested with women-owned firms, and $5.93 billion (9.3%) is invested with minority-owned firms, as defined below. ... than $8.62 billion.5 The average foundation invests 13.3% of its assets in diversely-owned firms, 10.8% in ...

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 organization realized that it had an opportunity to not only ask about sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Talent Justice Toolkit

Published: 
06/2019
This toolkit presents easy-to-use resources to help nonprofits and funders take action to advance talent ...

Placed-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners

Published: 
06/2019
Seeking ways to maximize the social and economic returns of their ... CDFIs, private investors, and others are turning to collaboration. To support these efforts and facilitate lesson sharing, the ...