Webinar: Education and Homelessness - Working Together for Students Experiencing Homelessness
Join Funders Together to End Homelessness for a webinar on May 22, 2018, exploring how housing instability and homelessness affect education outcomes.
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2017 Forum Annual Conference
Monday, July 17, 2017 to Wednesday, July 19, 2017
San Francisco, CA
Join us in San Francisco for #ForumCon17 for the the nation’s largest gathering of the CEOs and staffs of philanthropy-serving organizations in the field.
Forum Members Respond to Latest Calls for Racial Justice
Philanthropy-serving organizations and others in our field have spoken up about the latest murders of unarmed Black people in America by police and the protest calling for racial justice and police brutality reform.
Funder Response: Current Northern California Widespread Wildfires
The current wildfires are affecting tens of thousands of Northern Californians, forcing widespread evacuations, burning homes and structures, causing air pollution, and disrupting the fragile livelihoods of people and communities already responding to COVID-19.
Philanthropy & the 2020 Census: What a Fair and Accurate Count Means for Ending Homelessness
Census 2020 operations are underway as the country prepares for Census Day on April 1, 2020. All a driver of important funding and policy decisions, the Census also impacts the work to prevent and end homelessness across the country. So, what does this mean for philanthropy, and how can funders work within states and communities to ensure a fair and accurate count of people experiencing homelessness or housing instability and other hard-to-count populations
Session 1: Public Policy Capacity Profile Review and Workshop
During this session, participants will review the collective results of the Forum’s recently released 2019 capacity profiles and share trends and opportunities for PSOs’ public policy work. PSOs will also review their profiles and discuss their challenges, experiences and successes with their peers.
Speakers:
- David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, United Philanthropy Forum
- Matthew L. Evans, Director of Public Policy, United Philanthropy Forum
Date & Time:
03/09/2020 -
1:15pm to 2:30pm
PEAK Florida Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter?
Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? is a national study of philanthropic practice that was done to help us understand how we are doing as a field. The study includes key findings which look at how grantmakers’ approaches to racial equity and culture connect to practice.
Participate. Convene. Invest.: A Call to Action for the 2020 Census
Monday, April 9, 2018 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Webinar
We are now less than two years away from “Census Day,” April 1st, 2020! Join a conversation about why the census matters and the role that philanthropy can play in ensuring a fair and accurate count.
December Issue of Forum Policy Playbook Released
Release Date:
12/07/2017
The latest edition of our month-by-month advocacy guide is now available! The December 2017 edition of the Forum Policy Playbook focuses on the upcoming 2018 PolicyWorks Institute and Foundations on the Hill schedule for March 11-14 in Washington, DC.
2018 Election Series: Pathways to Effective State Funding Strategies
Monday, December 4, 2017 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Webinar
In November, elections around the country provided us with some of our first insights into how voters are responding after a year of political polarization and deep divisions.
GM 101 - San Francisco
Join PEAK Grantmaking for GM 101, an exclusive training workshop designed for professionals new to their role in grants management, on October 24 in San Francisco, CA.
Impact Measurement Webinar
Measurement is clearly at the heart of impact investing. But how are foundations navigating the measurement tools that exist—and has the impact investing field developed fully enough the measures necessary for scaling and making deep impact? This one and a half-hour webinar will provide answers to these questions by bringing together active impact investors and highly respected measurement experts.
Knowledgebase
Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits
Publication date:
09/2014
Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits, a report by the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, confirms that foundations can, in fact, facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through their grantmaking processes and their partnerships with nonprofits—and identifies eight specific practices for foundations to emulate.
8 Amazing Drupal Launches
Publication date:
12/2013
This report from Pantheon profiles 8 Amazing Drupal Launches, including the Forum's Salesforce-Drupal Platform.
Latest Releases From the Field- Late March 2018
Release Date:
03/21/2018
Check out the latest releases from around the nonprofit sector featuring items from Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Minnesota Council on Foundations and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia.
2015 Annual Conference Resources
Publication date:
07/2015
We will be posting materials from the 2015 Forum Annual Conference as they become available. Please check back for updated resources.
2013 Conference Recap
Release Date:
08/05/2013
Last week in Milwaukee, the Forum Network came together for its Annual Conference, an opportunity for regional association staff to meet connect, exchange knowledge, and build relationships as part of the largest network serving philanthropy today.
White Nationalism + Voter Suppression: How Online Platforms Disenfranchise Communities of Color
Join us to discuss how digital platform accountability and online voter suppression are impacting democracy in a rapidly changing environment, and learn about the strategies advocates are deploying to mitigate the harmful effects on the electorate.
Financial Stewardship in Troubled Times: Managing Endowments and Spending Policies
In this webinar, we’ll discuss questions related to foundation financial health.
Streamlining from the Inside Out (PEAK Southern California)
Join PEAK Grantmaking to learn about common ways that grantmakers get bogged down in their own internal grantmaking processes, diagnose your own processes, and share stories with colleagues about streamlining efforts. Participants will develop next steps for streamlining from the inside out to understand who will need to be on-board for change to start and stick.