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This webinar will review the Census 2020 operations with a lens on aspects of the process that are particularly important to understand if you are trying to help count all kids. Kaile H. Bower, Chief, Integrated Partnership and Communications Branch of the Census Bureau, will review the Census process.
The webinar will discuss support from the Census Equity Fund for states lacking funding infrastructure and other census funding resources such as the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation’s Funders Census Initiative resources for funders and stakeholders.
Join United Philanthropy Forum for PolicyWorks Institute 2020 on March 9-11, 2020.
Join United Philanthropy Forum for PolicyWorks Institute 2020 on March 8-9, 2020.
The Housing Choice Voucher Program helps families access affordable and stable housing, avoid homelessness, and make ends meet. When implemented properly, vouchers can give low-income families equitable choices about where to live, including the chance to live in lower-poverty, higher-opportunity neighborhoods and help public housing agencies meet their legal obligation to address housing discrimination and segregation. But is that what is actually happening?
Housing affordability is central to national priorities, like health care, food security, education, and more. Yet over 12 million households in the U.S. spend more than half of their incomes on rent or have no home at all, and this is compounded by continued threats to federal housing assistance and the funding and oversight necessary to produce, protect, and preserve quality, affordable housing.
How can philanthropy make the case for funding advocacy to end homelessness? Uncertain whether you can fund grantees that lobby? What’s philanthropy’s role in educating new members of Congress on housing and homelessness issues? What does it look like to support local ballot initiative work? Funders Together is partnering with Alliance for Justice to answers these questions and more! We'll also hear from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on how they are focusing on advocacy and policy work, including lifting up voices of lived experience and political will building.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has released The Philanthropy Framework, a tool for analysis and planning to guide emerging and established philanthropies to better align resources for maximum impact.
Women Give 2019 is the first study to explore the intersection of race, giving and gender. The report finds that generosity is a value shared by all communities, and that women across race and ethnicity are leading through philanthropy. As communities of color grow in wealth and influence, the study demonstrates the unique perspectives women of color bring to philanthropy and underscores the importance of understanding and engaging donors from diverse backgrounds.
The Panta Rhea Foundation is seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as its next Executive Director. This is a unique opportunity for a high-energy nonprofit or philanthropy executive who is deeply committed to social justice. This motivated and ambitious leader will enhance and develop Panta Rhea's core grantmaking programs, help to develop the Board, and seize opportunities for an amplified impact in the field of social justice.
Asset Funders Network’s latest report, in collaboration with the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (CWWG) and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development reveals the current economic reality for millennial women and the primary drivers contributing to their wealth inequities.
Save the date for the GCIR 2020 National Convening, philanthropy's foremost conference on immigration, will take place March 11-13, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the regional philanthropy landscape by managing Philanthropy Network programming and member engagement, and supporting our efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the network.
Last week the Twitter account for Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee sent out a cheery Tweet proclaiming that “Despite dooms-day claims that donations would drop, charitable giving amounts are at an ALL-TIME high after GOP #TaxCuts.
Save the Date for PEAK2020--a national conference dedicated to improving how grants get made.
The Director of Engagement focuses on providing value and quality to the PHILANTHROPY DELAWARE member experience to foster retention, growth and community impact. The Director leads the development and presentation of all educational programs and networking events.
In the third video in a three-part series on racial equity, Forum members and colleagues share some deeply moving stories of the role that racial equity plays in their personal lives.
In this video, United Philanthropy Forum members and colleagues share some deeply moving stories of the role that racial equity plays in their personal lives. This is the third video in a three-part Forum video series on racial equity
To meet the challenges of growth and build new systems to manage our expanding network and programming, NFG joined the Knowledge Management Collaborative of the United Philanthropy Forum in 2017. We have been fortunate to have the help of the Forum in our journey towards better information management, and offer the following reflections from our experience.
In August of 2016, GCIR had only one question about the Forum’s Drupal-Salesforce platform: How soon can we launch? Chats with several members of the collaborative left us chomping at the bit. Make our time-consuming membership renewal process more efficient? Yes, please. Streamline event registration tracking and analysis? Absolutely. Integrations with core services like MailChimp, ReadyTalk, and more? Yes, yes, yes. From automation of simple tasks and centralizing our far-flung data to joining a community of experts from similar organizations, we wanted to launch tomorrow.