On the Brink of Promise, The Future of Community Foundations
Seminal work on community foundations, published in 2005.
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Assessing Grantees’ Financial Health and Long Term Sustainability - Program Materials
This is the power point presentation from the program in Febuary 2014 - Assessing Grantees’ Financial Health and Long Term Sustainability. Hilda Polanco, Founder and Managing Director of FMA, a leading consulting firm dedicated to strengthening nonprofits led the workshop, focused on providing grantmakers with the skills to understand their grantees' financial reality.
What Funders Need to Know: Quality Care = Quality Jobs
As older adults are increasingly choosing to age in place, cross-cutting issues are coming to the forefront – the quality of care received by disabled or chronically ill older adults in their own homes, and the quality of the jobs of the caregivers who provide this care.
What Funders Need to Know: Better Housing Means Better Health
When considering how to improve health outcomes for low-income individuals, most people think about providing access to good medical care and keeping the cost of that care as low as possible. What people rarely think about is the connection between good health and quality affordable housing. This edition of What Funders Need to Know explores these connections and highlights some promising practices by both government and business that help low-income individuals get housed, stay healthier, and lower overall costs.
Program Resources: GWP Annual Meeting: Ask, Listen, Act
Program Resources: GWP Annual Meeting: Ask, Listen, Act on December 7th, 2020
Philanthropic Paths: An Exploratory Study of the Career Pathways of Professionals of Color in Philanthropy
Low levels of diversity in the senior ranks of foundations have proven to be a stubborn challenge for the field of philanthropy. A report by Forward Change takes an important step toward a deeper understanding of the career pathways of professionals of color in philanthropy—how they enter foundations, how they advance across their careers, and what factors affect their advancement within the sector.
Keystone Policy Series: Investing in Change - Foundation Support for Lobbying and Other Advocacy
This Keystone Policy Series call discussed how funders can make a case for funding advocacy and where to begin.
Program Resources: Corporate Funders’ Learning Session: Partnership Management
Resources from GWP Corporate Funders’ Learning Session: Partnership Management on 06/20/2020
Census 2020: Jefferson Counts Toolkit
Jefferson Regional Foundation created a toolkit to use for their local efforts to ensure an accurate count in the 2020 Census.
Program Resources- Administrative Learning Workshop: Conversations That Matter
Resources from Administrative Learning Workshop: Conversations That Matter 05/21/2020
Program Resources: Family Philanthropy and Donor-Advised Funds
GWP Program resources: Family Philanthropy and Donor-Advised Funds 06/02/2021
Speaker Tony Macklin
Program Resources: Using Data to Assess Your Grantmaking Practice
Program Resources: Using Data to Assess Your Grantmaking Practice on 11/09/2022
Program Resources: Our Region’s Affordable Housing Crisis: An Essential Primer
Program Resources: Our Region’s Affordable Housing Crisis: An Essential Primer
Presenter: Christopher Corbett- Senior Housing Planner
Civic Engagement Matters Workshop 12-4-2018
Resources from the December 4, 2018 Civic Matters Engagement Workshop
2019 CF Gathering: Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones
Resources from Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones presentation at 2019 CF Gathering.
Program Resources: Foundation Strategies for CTC and EITC Expansions
Program Resources: Foundation Strategies for CTC and EITC Expansions on 08/18/2021
The Promise and Pitfalls of Local and National Funder Collaborations
A key objective of the Scaling What Works initiative has been to translate insight and learning from grantmaker intermediaries involved with the Social Innovation Fund and share them with the broader philanthropic community. The fifth guide in the Lessons Learned series presents the benefits and challenges of partnerships between local and national funders, and highlights key considerations for both kinds of funders to foster success in their collaboration.
Supporting Pennsylvania Food Systems: Site Visits in Pittsburgh Resources
In early August, members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia(PNGP), Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania (GWP) and