Top Ten Philanthropy Resources: June part 1
Our top ten philanthropy resources from around the sector including native inclusion in philanthropic leadership, engaging in network investment, and foundation transparency.
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Our top ten philanthropy resources from around the sector including native inclusion in philanthropic leadership, engaging in network investment, and foundation transparency.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forum members share what they are doing in terms of advocacy and policy due to COVID-19. Responses are compiled below by known organizations.
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.
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.
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.