PEAK Grantmaking Minnesota Regional Chapter is giving you a chance to push away from your desk and work as part of a team to give back to the community! Join us for our annual volunteer event. This year, we will volunteer with the local non-profit Second Stork by packing bundles of supplies for newborn babies.
Join us for an engaging dialogue on what it takes to revitalize grantmaking to better support equity goals as grantees struggle to adapt to the new economic and political realities.
Join the PEAK Grantmaking Southwest Regional Chapter for two days of learning and sharing effective grantmaking practices, assessing your grants management skills and knowledge to enhance your professional development, and networking with colleagues from across the region!
This webinar will introduce equitable evaluation (EE), an emerging evaluative paradigm guided by a set of core principles grounded in equity. We will explore how common approaches to evaluation can undermine equity, explain the core principles of equitable evaluation, and share resources to spur your thinking about how your organization could apply equitable evaluation to its work.
The Community Change Learning Exchange (CCLE) aims to provide a means to unlock and share lessons learned, what works, what doesn’t and what still remains to be learned, as well as to create a safe space for funders to discuss not only past, but current challenges they are experiencing in community change work. This years CCLE will take place in Montgomery, Alabama.
In a guest post, Maria Vizcarrondo, President at Council New Jersey Grantmakers, shares lesson learned from #ForumCon19 that can be applied to confronting hate.
Domestic violence state coalitions can build effective partnerships with local and national funders to address the unique, trauma-informed needs of domestic and sexual violence survivors. Join this webinar to learn about how philanthropy can partner with state coalitions and their role in housing policy and program implementation.
This webinar will cover federal and state law policy examples that provide important protections for survivors of domestic violence who seek to access or maintain rental housing.
This is a guest post by Kelly Connor, Program and Communications Manager at Gateway Center for Giving who shares her thoughts of the 2019 Forum annual conference and the world of philanthropy as she recently started working for Gateway Center for Giving.
This webinar will explain the intersection between domestic and sexual violence and homelessness; highlight effective strategies for stakeholders to share in their commitment to finding effective ways to serve this population; provide a deeper understanding of the specific barriers survivors face in accessing and maintaining safe housing; address the role of effective partnerships across the homeless and victim service provider systems; and explore innovative housing model approaches to address the myriad of safe housing needs for survivors.
This is a guest post by Jaser A. Alsharhan, Senior Program Associate at Colorado Association of Funders who shares his experience with The Blanket Exercise during the 2019 Forum annual conference and some key truths that he learned.
Publication date:
06/2018
A demo of United Philanthropy Forum's Salesforce Package and how philanthropy-serving organizations can use this to track individuals, organizations, groups and committees, events, grants, membership dues and engagements.
This is a guest post by Taryn Palumbo, Executive Director at Orange County Grantmakers who shares her thoughts of the 2019 Forum annual conference and some of the key takeaways about equity from engaging in conversations with fellow PSO leaders.
FRE has created an agenda for the only dedicated national conference for Sexual & Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice (SRHRJ) grantmakers that: offers wide-ranging analysis of the current context to spark deep thinking and reflection about each attendee’s grantmaking, features panels of experts in our field discussing topics, and more.
Forum Policy Update is a regular update for United Philanthropy Forum members covering public policy issues impacting the philanthropic sector.
Topics in the latest update include the private foundation excise tax, the USDA's proposed rule that would impact SNAP recipients, and the final "public charge" rule.
This is a guest post by Caterina Gironda, Research & Program Manager at Funders Concerned About AIDS shares her thoughts of the 2019 Forum annual conference and the power of representation and respect for diverse voices within PSOs realm.
Check out the latest releases from around the nonprofit sector featuring items from Asset Funders Network, B Lab, Candid, CF Insights, Confluence Philanthropy, Fidelity Charitable, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, PEAK Grantmaking, and Technology Affinity Group.
Publication date:
08/2019
This spreadsheet provides the results of a Forum survey that asked PSOs to report their census activities and advocacy in preparation for the 2020 Census.
In a guest post, Renee Brooks Catacalos, Member and Strategic Partnerships Director at Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders shares her reflections of the 2019 Forum annual conference and feeling the power of being part of a forward-thinking and supportive community as she grows as a PSO professional.
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