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This year, Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania has partnered with the Council on Foundations to encourage participation in the 2016 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Survey, a valuable benchmarking t
Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise has, for nearly 50 years, worked to help bolster agencies that help struggling African-Americans and other groups in need throughout Allegheny County.
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) and Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI) have released today a new research report representing the most comprehensive data collection effort to date o
How do low-income communities learn to advance economically and build wealth? Low-income communities and communities of color, in challenging structural economic and social inequality, have historically grappled with tensions inherent to development. Who participates in, directs, and ultimately owns the economic-development process? In creating and sustaining new, inclusive economic institutions, how do community members cultivate and pass on skills, commitment and knowledge—especially among those who have long faced barriers to education and employment? And how should communities strike an appropriate balance between utilizing local knowledge and accessing outside expertise?
n 2004, a group of foundations came together to create a funder collaborative in support of Freedom to Marry’s state-by-state strategy to win marriage equality. Over the following 11 years, this unique collaborative and its funding partners invested a total of $153 million to support a wide range of activities across the country to change hearts and minds on a massive scale — and ultimately to deliver a historic win for equality and love.
The Fund for Our Economic Future brought together a set of philanthropic institutions from across Northeast Ohio to promote a regional approach for increasing economic prosperity and opportunity. The original 28 Fund members committed a total of $30 million over three years to begin restoring regional economic competitiveness through pooled grantmaking, research and convening.
Developed in partnership with the Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI), Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices is the most comprehensive data collection effort to date on evaluation practices at foundations. The report shares data points and infographics on crucial topics related to evaluation at foundations, such as evaluation staffing and structures, investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information.
This workbook to help you think through specific policies to manage your nonprofit’s risk. It contains prompts to help you create and document policies for the acceptable use of technology and networks, personal devices for work, how to provide IT guidance to “accidental techies,” how to respond to an IT incident, and how to recover your technology after a major disaster.
The executive coaching program designed specifically for African-American nonprofit leaders launched by Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise (PACE) has recently recruited a third cohort of participant
Join Funders Together to End Homelessness for a webinar focused on highlighting the research and evaluation of homelessness prevention conducted by HealthSpark Foundation and Your Way Home Montgomery County, PA.
Join us for this live webinar to explore how the millennial gender wealth gap is compounded by systemic barriers including lack of affordable childcare and paid family leave policies in addition to student debt, mass incarceration, and changing family structures. Learn how Philanthropy is uniquely positioned to influence and develop interventions.
January's meeting has been cancelled. We'll see you in February!
A group of foundation staff has come together in recent months to understand how they can more effectively respond to the opioid crisis in Allegheny County. The group has agreed to continue meeting monthly to develop a coordinated approach to this issue. We welcome all members' involvement in this group and hope you will join us for this next session as well as mark your calendar for all upcoming monthly meetings.
In May, members of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Census 2020 Complete Count Commission, with the Democrat’s backing, called on the Legislature to appropriate one dollar per Pennsylvanian in the budget for census outreach.
The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund is helping individuals establish funds to allow them to raise money to help front-line workers.
In this webinar, learn practical guidance for how to build or refresh your grantmaking strategy and approach.