Fred Brown, a nonprofit executive with 30 years of experience in community building and organizational development in the city’s East End neighborhoods and in Charlotte, N.C., has been appointed pr
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Over eighty representatives from nearly sixty local charitable organizations attended a capacity building grants workshop on January 17 at the Southpointe Golf Club. The workshop was hosted by the
On January 12, Lawrence Fink, CEO of BlackRock – a $6 trillion dollar asset manager -- sent a letter to CEOs of public companies with a surprising message: he told them that their responsibility wa
Is your organization’s philanthropy reaching its goals? Join GWP’s Grants Managers Learning Network to discuss best practices in outcomes measurement and evaluation.
Many corporate grantmakers know the work of Stanley S.
In an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Karen Wolk Feinstein, president of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, stresses the importance of the WIC program and how it can be improved with additional state funding.
The Heinz Endowments released a report that found the majority of local news stories about African Americans in the Pittsburgh region focus on crime and sports.
What factors should you consider if you want your grant investment to have the greatest impact on student academic success? Here's what funders need to know.
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.
In the final session in Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers's Putting Racism on the Table series (2016), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Dr. Gail Christopher discussed the role of philanthropy in addressing racism and racial inequity.
In the third session of Putting Racism on the Table (2016), Julie Nelson, Director of the Government Alliance on Race & Equity, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, focused on implicit bias.
In the fourth session of Putting Racism on the Table (2016), James Bell, founder and executive director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute, focused on mass incarceration.
In the fifth session in WRAG's Putting Racism on the Table series (2016), Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, discussed the experience of nonblack racial minorities in America, the implications of demographic change, and the urgent need to invest in equity.