This case study of the Council of Michigan Foundations' Peer Action Learning Network (PALN) is part of a report from New York University's Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action. It explores the power of learning communities to build connections and knowledge to increase organizations’ community impact.
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The Power of Learning: How Learning Communities Amplify the Work of Nonprofits and Grantmakers: CMF Peer Action Learning Network Case Study
Serving Foster Care Youth: An Update on the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 8:30am
... age 18 Only 58 percent will graduate high school by age 19 (compared to 87 percent of all 19 year olds) 71 percent of young women are pregnant by 21, ...
Supply, Demand and the Future of Work in the Pittsburgh Region
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 12:00pm
... region 22% of workers are over age 55, compared to 19% nationally, with no comparably sized group of younger ...
Allegheny County DHS Is Featured In New York Times
Monday, February 5, 2018
... flexible funding pool begun in 1997. Through the HSIF, 19 local funders (past and present) have contributed more ...
Youth Philanthropy Interns Announce Grant Awards
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
... Mary S Biesecker Public Library’s Modern Musketeering ($19,500) to foster unity by encouraging the community to take ...
2024 State Budget and Tax Outlook
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:45pm
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania is proud to partner with Economic Opportunity Funders to offer a livestream of th
GWP Adds its Voice In Support of Public Transportation
Friday, August 23, 2013
On August 21, GWP executive director Barbara Sieck Taylor provided testimony at a Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee hearin
Member News - Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Monday, September 1, 2014
... created the Dee Delaney Accessibility Fund and shares resources to help cultural organizations welcome audiences of ...
Corporate Roundtable: Employee Engagement
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 8:00am
... companies can maximize their social impact with non-cash resources and leverage employee talents and skills. Scott ...
Pittsburgh Philanthropy Project Storytelling Website Launch
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 4:30pm
The Philanthropy Project presents Philanthropy's Storytelling Website in Pittsburgh. The website is an interactive resource with content from 45 oral histories, historical materials and stories of giving and those who give. Join us for a website preview, documentary screening and fesitve light fare!
New Report Reveals Revenue Shifts for Charity Walks and Runs
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Does your company sponsor charity walks or runs? According to new data compiled by Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum, some of the best-known national e
Building the Bench: How Funders Can Nurture Talent to Build Organizational Strength
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 8:30am
... and practical tools to help funders use their limited resources to support talent development in their core ... grantees. Rusty will be reviewing these same tools and resources at a program with our nonprofit community during ... Both groups will walk away with action-oriented ideas and resources that can be applied within their respective ...
Community Philanthropy: A Global Perspective
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 12:00pm
... a new paradigm of 'people-based development' that shifts resources and power closer to communities, and that gives ...
North Side health and wellness program to be created with $250K grant
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
... community by connecting residents with health and wellness resources. North Side health and wellness program to be ...
The Village Movement
... “Village” is used to represent the model because local resources and people of all ages are brought together to ...
Community Development Learning Network: What Makes A Healthy Neighborhood?
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - 12:00pm
... force residents to question whether or not to invest their resources in their homes and neighborhoods. And the decisions ...
Scott Izzo To Retire From R.K. Mellon Foundation
Friday, December 14, 2018
... More than $43 million was dedicated to preserving natural resources, including in the northern Pennsylvania counties of ...
Webinar: NCFP Series- Balancing Power Dynamics
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:00pm
Join NCFP for a conversation that will feature a variety of practical tips for bridging the power divide with your grantees, with one another, and with other partners in your work.
