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Is Your Organization Prepared for a Major Market Shift?

Glenmede Post 2019
Monday, November 4, 2019
... stability and favorable investment markets, it is easy to become content and simply “let the good times roll.” Over the ... to look toward the future.  Change Impacts an Entire Organization Navigating periods of transition can be difficult and ... herein with their Glenmede representative. Is Your Organization Prepared for a Major Market Shift? ...

Learning to Ride the Wave: Adaptive Business Modeling for Philanthropy-Serving Organizations

... seek effective ways to mobilize resources to sustain their organization’s work. The guide features perspectives from dozens of leaders ... from our work with these organizations. Much of the content is based on conversations and strategy work with PSO leaders, staff and board ...
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19Sep2019

Increase the Success in Succession Planning: Preparing for Future Leadership

Thursday, September 19, 2019
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Panasonic Building
The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers is excited to invite Philanthropy Network foundation members to a CEO ... planning, how to incorporate diversity and inclusion into your search, and best practices for a smooth transition. As leaders and ... board member is to create a succession plan to ensure the organization is adequately prepared for changes in leadership. Whether ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... By Kristina L. Wahl and Paige Chapel Local giving is a priority for the vast majority of Exponent Philanthropy members. This is ... taking a look at mission-aligned investment opportunities in your own backyard: investing in CDFIs and supporting a local social enterprise. ...

Greater Good: Lessons from Those Who Have Started Major Grantmaking Organizations

Published: 
04/2019
... foundations established in the U.S. in the past 20 years, it is vital that early-stage grantmakers learn from the wisdom of those who have ... more about what it takes to effectively get a grantmaking organization off the ground, CEP interviewed 35 leaders — including trustees, ...
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No Time for Complacency: Preparing Foundations for a More Turbulent Future

No Time for Complacency
Published: 
04/2019
Leaders in every sector are struggling to plan for a future in which social, digital, political and economic forces create ... change quicker than ever – and the philanthropic field is no exception. To survive and thrive in this turbulent environment, ...
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Report
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Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking
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Leadership, Culture and Community

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
... the last several months, we have found ourselves wondering: is this the new reality? And as a relatively small local foundation (with $45 ... with several regional HMOs that began paying for the organization’s meal services. The foundation helped unleash a large stream of ...

Getting Past Inertia: Ten Simple, Valiant Steps To Align Your Foundation’s Endowment With Your Mission – Or Not

Thursday, June 29, 2017
... Foundation There’s a lot of judgment these days about your endowment. You use it only to grow more money when it could be doing that ...  recognized its opportunity and began down a path that is worth studying. Celebrating its hundredth year as a family foundation, the ...
14Nov2018

Trust in Media is at an All-Time Low: What Nonprofits, Funders, & Organizations Can Do

Wednesday, November 14, 2018
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: 
Webinar
... news they see on TV, read in newspapers, or hear on radio is inaccurate. And they believe 64% of the news they see on social media is ... and address the spread of misinformation Opportunities for nonprofits, funders, startups, and others to...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... organizations or individuals whose values don’t align with your mission .) And diversity doesn’t just mean race: It also includes ... looking at some of the research, a part of this [disparity] is certainly historic,” she said — meaning, the nonprofit sector is still ...

Philanthropy Network launching new Equity Cohort with major support from Scattergood Foundation

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
... Equity in Philanthropy Cohort.  The 12-month cohort is designed to foster awareness, reflection, and institutional change among ... operational and developmental path to institutionalizing an organization’s commitment to equity. The model involves assessing current ...

Philly parents, don't leave the city when your kids reach school age | Opinion

Friday, March 23, 2018
... how well do you know Philadelphia public schools? The truth is they are likely better than you think — especially when it comes to the ... that schools somewhere else have more to offer, visit your neighborhood school and see what’s going on. Talk to the teachers and ...
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Education
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