Using Data to Assess Your Grantmaking Practice
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 12:00pm
Join GWP and PEAK Grantmaking for this workshop to learn about using data to assess grantmaking practices.
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Funding Advocacy: The Why, How, Do’s and Don’ts
Thursday, September 4, 2014 - 8:30am
Join GWP for this engaging session with Abby Levine, Legal Director of Bolder Advocacy with the Alliance for Justice. Abby will be joined by Carolyn Duronio, Partner at Reed Smith and an expert on exempt organizations including public charities, private foundations, and trade associations. Together, they will explore a range of issues critical to funders interested in engaging in the important work of advocacy.
Investing in Nonprofit Mergers & Alliances
This brief explores the world of nonprofit mergers and alliances from a donor-focused perspective.
Gender Transformative Philanthropy
This guide suggests that funders can work to improve program outcomes by helping the funding community and grantees recognize how men and women are affected by disparities in social expectations, such as codes of manhood and womanhood.
Embedded Philanthropy and Community Change
Chapin Hall's work on embedded philanthropy began in 2003, as an outgrowth of a long-standing research program on philanthropy and community change.
Hearing from Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback
The Center for Effective Philanthropy report, Hearing from Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback, reveals that most nonprofits are using beneficiary fe
Recommendations for Capital Grantmakers
Recommendations for Capital Grantmakers, is written for arts funders who are looking to make smart and impactful investments.
Learning Together: Actionable Approaches for Grantmakers
This publication takes an in-depth look at what it means to open our learning and evaluation practices to grantees, other funders, community members, government agencies and others involved in the work.
The Financial Health of the United States Nonprofit Sector
Monday, January 1, 2018
A new report from Oliver Wyman, SeaChange Capital Partners and Guidestar reveals that nearly half of U.S.
FCCP Webinar: The Money In Politics Implications Of A Johnson Amendment Repeal
Monday, June 25, 2018 - 3:00pm
... As with all FCCP briefings, this space is intended as a funder-only conversation. FCCP Webinar: The Money In Politics ...
Webinar: Erasing Representation- The Implications Of The Census Citizenship Status Question On Reapportionment & Redistricting
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 12:00pm
... are represented. This briefing is intended as a funder-only conversation. Please only register if you work at ...
With Unique Assets, Health Corporations Are Poised To Have A Larger Philanthropic Impact
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Corporate funders outpace most private foundations in understanding and addressing “a more holistic view of how change happens.” In a new report by Deloitte, healthcare foundations and life scien
Nonprofit Overhead: Is there an ideal percentage range?
Can you provide any information or articles on the ideal overhead percentage for nonprofits? I’m guessing that there might be an appropriate “range” and that it varies based on the organiza
Resources from Helping Immigrants Thrive in Allegheny County
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 Wisdom of Communities, How the Ford Institute helps rural people achieve their own vision of vitality
The Ford Institute for Community Building, a program of The Ford Family Foundation, works to help community leaders learn how to implement local solutions based on principles of effective community building. This paper describes the development and work of the The Ford Institute for Community Building.
Webinar: Managing Risk to Maximize Impact in Grantmaking
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 2:00pm
Join Exponent Philanthropy for a webinar that will encourage thoughtful consideration of risks to impact so that funders can make fully informed decisions about what risks they are willing to take and how to manage those risks – increasing the probability of successful grantmaking activities.
Ratcheting Up Rural Response, Recovery and Resilience: Five Good Ideas for Philanthropy Right Now
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 - 2:00pm
Join the Aspen Institute and others to explore the Five Good Ideas they decided to highlight regarding the COVID-19 Rural Response, Recovery and Resilience.
Investing in Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Models: What is the True Cost?
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 2:00pm
Join us for this partner opportunity with our colleagues at Philanthropy New York during which we will discuss how to focus on supporting nonprofits in their decisions to transition to an alternative operating model (mergers, acquisitions, sharing back office support, etc.).
ECFA Virtual Learning Circle: Maternal Health and the Impact of Employer Benefit Plans
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 11:00am
... of Southwestern Pennsylvania The Early Childhood Funder’s Alliance of Southwestern Pennsylvania is a ...
A New Anchor Mission for a New Century
Community foundations are beginning to deepen and shift how they work, adopting an anchor mission that seeks to fully deploy all resources to build community wealth. Moving into territory relatively uncharted for community foundations, they are taking up impact investing and economic development — some in advanced ways, others with small steps. This report offers an overview of how 30 representative community foundations — including The Seattle Foundation, the Vermont Community Foundation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation — are working toward adopting this new anchor mission.