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Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust
Join us for a conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the United States Military Academy, West Point about understanding, preventing, and responding to extremism, and empowering individuals, communities and organizations as they chart new paths forward.
Launchpad For Hosts: A Giving Circle Incubator
Launchpad For Hosts by Philanthropy Together is a virtual training program to launch giving circles within your institution. This is the only training program of its kind to help you start giving circles at your institution. It builds on insights from dozens of organizations currently hosting giving circles over the past decade, and provides a roadmap for doing so successfully. Launchpad For Hosts is for passionate community leaders within philanthropic host institutions, most commonly Community Foundations, Jewish Federations, Corporations, Women’s or Issue Funds, etc.
Flood, Famine and Fire: Building a Climate Justice Analysis in Philanthropy
This webinar will help grantmakers and donors understand climate change and domestic and global efforts to address, mitigate and prepare for its impacts through a climate justice lens. While aimed at funders, it will also be of interest to emergency managers, academics, disaster responders and NGO staff working on the frontlines of these crises.
Investment Strategies to Address Climate Change in California
Join Philanthropy California for a session on the current state of investing to mitigate climate change and build statewide climate resiliency. We’ll highlight impact investing strategies and opportunities in wildfire and drought mitigation, prioritizing approaches that serve people who are disproportionately experiencing the impacts of climate change.
GLR Week 2021 Registration
Sustaining Anti-Racist Education Against Backlash
Racial Equity Assessments for PSO Foundation Members: What to Know
FCAA Connect Webinar: How To Build Resilient and Strong Organizations
Please join us for a conversation with the Ford Foundation’s Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) initiative and South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to explore how BUILD supports social justice organizations to become stronger and more resilient over time.
United Philanthropy Forum Releases Statement on the Accelerating Charitable Efforts Act
Last week, Sens. Grassley (R-IA) and King (I-ME) introduced the Accelerating Charitable Efforts (ACE) Act, a bill that seeks to impose legislative mandates on donor-advised funds (DAFs) and private foundations. The Forum will work with our members, national partners, and experts in the field to take a deep dive on the proposed mandates in this bill and possible alternatives by gathering valuable feedback and examining critical data.
Advocacy and Policy Efforts During COVID-19
Forum members share what they are doing in terms of advocacy and policy due to COVID-19. Responses are compiled below by known organizations.
State and Local Budgets - the Next COVID-19 Battlefront
Join this webinar to learn more about the state and local fiscal crisis, lessons learned from the Great Recession, key principles for an equitable response, and how state and local advocates are gearing up for the budget battles to come.
Monthly COVID-19 Funder Call
Forum Names Our 2020 Racial Equity Mini-Grant Recipients
Advocacy in Action - Rules of Advocacy for Funders
Foundations often miss their incredible opportunity to shape public policy due to a fear of engaging in advocacy. Lobbying is a form of advocacy that is only one point on the continuum of ways to use one’s voice. When foundations do not use their voices to speak about policies impacting their organizations and communities they serve, it removes the philanthropic sector from the democratic process. For our first Advocacy in Action session, we'll be joined by an expert from the Bolder Advocacy initiative at Alliance for Justice who will empower you with the legal rules of both funding and participating directly in policy advocacy activities.
Bridge the Divide: Climate, Land Use & Transportation Connections
In a time of heightened awareness about our climate crisis, we know that land use, transportation, and housing patterns have a direct impact on climate change and greenhouse gas pollution. How we build our communities and transportation networks effects quality of life, equity, economic vitality, public health, and environmental quality.
Webinar: The Divest/Invest Framework: What Does It Mean for Funders Working in Housing and Homelessness?
PEAK Summit (Southeast)
The PEAK Southeast chapter’s two-day summit in Charleston, SC includes site visits across a range of funding interests, an expert-led workshop on equitable grantmaking practices, and plenty of opportunities to connect with peers across the region.
Grantmakers in Aging 2019 Annual Conference
Each year, in October, GIA holds its Annual Conference, with more than 200 top local and national funders, in one of America’s great cities. For 2019, we’re excited to bring the meeting to New York City — a melting pot of unique people, places, and points of view. Our venue is The New York Marriott Downtown, close to the Statute of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the 9/11 Tribute and Museum. New York City is also home to numerous creative innovative programs that benefit older adults.
#FORUMCON18: Sharing and Collaboration at Every Level
A guest post from our member, Christina Marconi, Engagement Manager, Philanthropy Delaware about her experience at this year's Annual Conference.