After more than 15 years promoting grantmaker practices that support nonprofit results, GEO is convinced that a strong culture inside foundations is critical for effective philanthropy. It’s virtually impossible to operate as an ally and partner to nonprofits if you are working inside a foundation whose values and culture run counter to that spirit.
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The Henry L. Hillman Foundation launched Healthy Allegheny Challenge, a competition for $1.5 million to be awarded to the best proposal for a health project that benefits an underserved community in Allegheny County.
Resources from Corporate Learning Network Virtual Roundtable 05/28/2020.
Hop on the bus!
On April 24 and April 25 more than two dozen funders from Western Pennsylvania hopped on a bus to learn more about Allegheny County’s vibrant immigrant and refugee communiti
The nation’s opioid crisis did not result overnight. A “perfect storm” has been brewing and sweeping our nation for decades and Pennsylvania is being hit hard.
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The Richard King Mellon Foundation’s director, Scott Izzo, will step down at the end of the year but will stay on as a board trustee and senior adviser at Pittsburgh’s largest foundation.
Bill Woodrum has been named Senior Program Officer at the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation where he will lead community and economic development initiatives in West Virginia.
This guide was developed by a joint working group of the Council on Foundations and the European Foundation Centre. It identifies eight principles of good disaster grantmaking and offers a number of tips to help grantmakers address disasters more effectively, including facts and figures about recent major disasters around the world and a list of useful disaster information websites.
Program Resources from Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy on 11/16/2021
In mid-March, GWP hosted an informal conversation between the funding community, Mayor Bill Peduto and County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.GWP members heard them describe their top priorities for the
The Greater Philadelphia Food Funders seek to create positive, lasting impacts in the re gional food system by supporting collective learning and collaboration, promoting good policy and innovative
Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact is the first ever set of measurable guidelines that will help foundations and other institutional grantmakers operate ethically and maximize the impact of their dollars.
Americans for the Arts has just released the findings from its fifth annual study of the economic impact of nonprofit cultural orga