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Community foundations can play a role in helping communities adapt to the needs of their aging populations. Learn how your colleagues have worked to create age-friendly communities.
Philanthropy professionals in Pennsylvania understand how state policy affects the nonprofit sector, and many have a histo
In this webinar, we’ll host a roundtable discussion on questions to ask your organization, values and beliefs that play into the decision, and the benefits and costs of choosing to spend up your foundation.
This webinar will feature a discussion with leaders from the Russell Family Foundation, who have developed an internal tool for considering all levels of transparency in family philanthropy – between the foundation and the public, between board and staff, and between generations.
This webinar is designed to help guide any funders interested in participating in the "Get on the Map" grants mapping project. We will walk through instructions for sharing all the necessary grant
This webinar is designed to help guide any funders interested in participating in the "Get on the Map" grants mapping project. We will walk through instructions for sharing all the necessary grant
This webinar is designed to help guide any funders interested in participating in the "Get on the Map" grants mapping project. We will walk through instructions for sharing all the necessary grant
This webinar is designed to help guide any funders interested in participating in the "Get on the Map" grants mapping project. We will walk through instructions for sharing all the necessary grant
Join the GWP Corporate Network for a planning session for 2017 network activities.
Please join us to hear about an emerging vision for the Maker Movement in Pittsburgh.
The Buhl Foundation, a longtime funder on the North Side, will partner with Comcast and Urban Innovation 21 to invest a total of $8.8 million in a new strategy to revitalize the concourse portion o
Join us on March 30th as we explore the formation of a new GWP learning network focused on a critical aspect of adolescents’ lives: their behavioral health.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has had a long-standing commitment to increasing the effectiveness of grantmaking organizations, a commitment reflected in its Philanthropy Grantmaking Program. In 2015, the Foundation commissioned Harder+Company Community Research, in partnership with Edge Research, to conduct a field scan to inform its own strategies in this area as well as those of other organizations working to increase philanthropic effectiveness.
An initiative of the Alliance for Justice, Bolder Advocacy promotes active engagement in democratic processes and institutions by giving nonprofits and foundations the confidence to advocate effectively and by protecting their right to do so.
Daniel Kemmis explores the sometimes-fraught relationship between philanthropy and democracy in this updated report. Beginning with a wide-ranging stroll through the shared history of philanthropy and democracy, Kemmis examines the current post-Citizens United landscape and asks whether philanthropy can and should do more to strengthen the infrastructure and practices of democracy.
How the government can partner with impact investors to unleash new capital, talent and energy for maximum impact.
This book is provides profiles of programs with positive results, including IBM’s P-TECH program and efforts at Valencia State College, and philanthropy guidance on possible points of entry in assisting “middle skill” job development.
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 guide was developed by a joint working group of the Council on Foundations and the European Foundation Centre. It identifies eight principles of good disaster grantmaking and offers a number of tips to help grantmakers address disasters more effectively, including facts and figures about recent major disasters around the world and a list of useful disaster information websites.
