Just Announced: Pledge 1%
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
A just-launched initiative, the Pledge 1% movement aims to recruit start-up companies that will embed philanthropy and community investment into their business models as they grow.
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NCFP Webinar - Trends in Family Philanthropy: Examining the Present, Planning for the Future
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 12:00pm
Join us for this exciting webinar to kick off NCFP’s most prominent research initiative ever: Trends in Family Philanthropy. This webinar will feature a sneak peek at the questions to be explored by the study, along with analysis and insights of three leading voices in the field – NCFP President Virginia Esposito and Senior Fellow Alice Buhl, and the Urban Institute’s Elizabeth Boris, the lead researcher for the study.
NCFP Webinar - Transformation, Transparency, and Ongoing Learning: Focusing Your Foundation’s Approach and Strategy
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 12:00pm
Hear the story of how one mid-sized family foundation created a new theory of change for its own grantmaking and shifted from a more traditional giving approach to a highly targeted social investing strategy
NCFP Webinar - Funding Film to Educate, Engage and Achieve Social Change
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 2:30pm
Learn how donor families are using films to advance change on the issues of today. Join us for this fascinating look at family foundations investing in films and social action campaigns to advance their mission and create positive social change.
GWP Corporate Roundtable: Transitioning to an Online Corporate Giving System
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 11:00am
Join GWP for the next Corporate Roundtable during which Highmark will provide a demonstration of their new online giving system.
A Conversation on Financing: Making Public/Private Partnerships Work
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 12:00pm
Join GWP for a program that examines new financing mechanisms for real estate development and explores the philanthropic sector’s role in the community development financing process.
An Update on the Strengthening Communities Partnership
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 12:00pm
Join GWP for an update on the Strengthening Communities Partnership as they enter their new three-year agenda.
Leadership Transition at PNC Foundation
Thursday, December 18, 2014
GWP board member Eva Tansky Blum, president of PNC Foundation, has announced her upcoming retirement and Sally McCrady, deputy executive director for PNC Grow Up Great, has been named her successor.
Member Spotlight: Enlivening Our Streetscapes: Paris to Pittsburgh
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Since 2007, pedestrians in the Golden Triangle have been enjoying an increasingly vibrant street-level experience thanks to the Paris to Pittsburgh program, administered by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.
Unpacking Impact Investing - What It Is and How It Can Fuel Social Innovation
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 8:30am
Join us for the first of two panel discussions during which we will explore the topic of impact investing, how it operates and lessons learned to date. This session will present some of the traditional tools of impact investing, and some of the newer methods being used in the social innovation space.
Brave Miss World
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 2:00pm
All GWP members are cordially invited to a special screening of the film “Brave Miss World,” hosted by Jewish Healthcare Foundation and GWP.
Webinar: Changing Our World Strategic Community Engagement Toolkit
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 2:00pm
Learn about a 16-week guided strategic planning process for community engagement to help companies develop thoughtful strategies that leverage corporate assets to benefit the community, developed and coached by Changing Our World.
Administrative Roundtable: Let’s Talk Document Retention And Technology
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 12:00pm
How do you decide what to retain and what to toss? How do you keep your retention policy up to date? Join us for an open discussion about how GWP members have kept the piles of paperwork organized and also share resources used to establish a document retention policy.
Canceled - GWP Arts Funders Roundtable
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 12:00pm
- Note - This program has been canceled.
State of Corporate Citizenship 2014
Monday, December 8, 2014
In December, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCC) released information from a new study of how executives view corporate citizenship and its relationship to corporate performance.
Volunteering in America: Round One
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Data from Volunteering and Civic Life in America, a new report from the Corporation for National and Community Service, show some decline in the rates of American volunteerism in 2013.
Volunteering in America: Round Two
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
An Associated Press-GfK poll reveals that a rising number of Americans under age 30 say that citizens have “a very important obligation” to volunteer.
The State of Global Pro Bono Programs
Sunday, December 14, 2014
The Conference Board recently took a look at global pro bono programs, in which companies deploy employees on cross-border, skills-based volunteer projects.
New Report Offers Overview of #GivingTuesday
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Giving USA Foundation has released a new analysis of the results of this year’s #GivingTuesday, the global giving movement founded in 2012 and driven by social media.