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Day 3 Concurrent Session - Equitable Grantmaking Is A Thing? How Using Demographic Data Can Help
As the sector grapples with improving its record on inclusion and racial equity, the question of what exactly the record shows about philanthropy’s reach into specific communities emerges. After all, how can we work toward a more equitable sector if we don’t have a starting point of data to use as a benchmark to track progress and inform our impact? Join this learning session to hear about field-wide collaborative efforts to strengthen the systems for collecting demographic data effectively at both the organizational and program level to advance equity in grantmaking.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Looking Back to Move Forward: Understanding How Use of An Evaluation of Past Practices Can Create Equity
WOMEN'S WAY and Strategy Arts collaborated to create the racial Equity Audit tool to evaluate whether current practices perpetuate inequities and to spur intentional action to incorporate racial equity in policies and practices. The process also supported planning of implementing actions and strategies over short-term and long-term periods that center racial equity, lived experience expertise, and reprioritize cultural norms that stem from white supremacist notions and culture.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Relationship Building and Its Impact on Philanthropy
Are you using principles of Trust Based Philanthropy and don’t even know it? When philanthropist Carole Haas Gravagno and Stanford Thompson teamed up a decade ago to plan and launch the music education program Play On Philly, the journey and relationship impacted their own lives as much as those of the students.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Bridging Information Divides and Elevating Narratives: How Resolve Philly Does Community Engagement
Resolve Philly exists to challenge the field of journalism to be equitable, collaborative, and informed by community voices and solutions. As one of the driving forces behind Resolve Philly, our Community Engagement (CE) team directly engages with and broadens the visibility of communities who are not afforded the tools and mechanisms to elevate their own narratives.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Tackling Systemic Racism Through Your Endowment
How can investors use their capital to tackle systemic racism and advance the well-being for communities of color? This session explores how investors/ foundations can use their capital to address systemic racism and better support communities of color. The financial industry has a responsibility to better understand how it distributes wealth, resources and power in our economy.
One Year Later: How Has COVID-19 Reshaped Philanthropy?
Report Launch: Women’s Index: Developing a Tool for Aligning Financial Investments with Gender Equity.
From Access to Empowerment: Elevating Equity and Community Voice Beyond the Pandemic
Stoneleigh Foundation names Marie Williams Deputy Director
Marie N. Williams, Esq.,who has served Senior Program Officer at the Stoneleigh Foundation, has been named Deputy Director effective June 2021.
DAY 2 CONCURRENT SESSION | Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D: Values, Cultures, Leadership, Practice
The potential of trust-based philanthropy goes beyond unrestricted grants and streamlined paperwork. Trust-based philanthropy can show us the way toward co-creating a sector in which community and nonprofit leaders are valued, supported, and trusted. For this vision to become the norm in philanthropy, funders must center trust in every dimension of our work, both internally and externally. This begins with acknowledging and addressing issues of power and equity in all aspects of our organizations.
Choosing Change: How to Assess Proposals for Their Potential to Reduce Structural Inequality
Queer & Trans Leadership and the Fight for LGBTQ Migrant Rights
Drexel University’s Action for Early Learning: Creating Circles of Support for Children and Families in Philadelphia | Presented by William Penn Foundation
Since 2014, the Action for Early Learning (AFEL) Initiative has worked to provide more equitable access to quality early childhood education in the high-need, high-poverty neighborhood of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone. As Drexel University’s early learning improvement initiative, AFEL has created a place-based model that puts the child at the center of an early childhood education eco-system, which now has 35% more children in high quality care since its inception.
BLBB Charitable Awards Over $2 million in Grants in 2022
The grants included over $1 million in Impact Grants in BLBB's five focus areas: Economic Self-Sufficiency; Local Environmental Education; K-12 Private Education; Post-Secondary Education & Opportunities; and Youth Development & Leadership.