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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?
The Forbes Fund hosted UpPrize for the first time in 2015 to fund innovative solutions to better serve vulnerable populations in the region. BNY Mellon served
Based sardonically on Masterpiece Theatre, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers’s Structural Racism Theater introduces the viewer to concrete examples of structural racism and implicit bias. It’s edgy, dryly humorous, “shareable,” and an incredibly different direction for WRAG. The first episode, "The Pernicious Compromise," focuses on the timely topic of the Electoral College and its connection to the Three-Fifths Compromise.
How do you put into place the tools and processes needed to get clear about and increasingly get stronger impact from your grantmaking program?
Please join the Tri-State Community Foundation Partnership for a webinar to learn about what your peers are doing to recruit and maintain high-functioning boards.
After 17 successful years, The Sprout Fund has announced it will sunset in 2018.
Join us as we gather with our colleagues from Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council to discuss recommendations put forth in their recent report: Racial Equity and Arts Funding in Greater Pittsburgh, and identify potential common interests and practices.
As a community of foundations across Pennsylvania, we are stronger together. Statewide connections enable foundations to identify areas of convergence across funders’ prio
Read a candid description of how the fund was created, co-authored by Michelle McMurray and Justin Laing.
In 2015, The United Nations defined a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intended to alleviate poverty, preserve the planet and promote universal health and well-being by 2030. Read more about how the Bridgespan Group recently compiled data on ‘big bets’ placed by private foundations, corporate foundations and wealthy donors toward the SDGs.
