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Insights from “The Path to Racial Equity: How Board Readiness Informs Organizational Readiness for Black Board Leadership”

Release Date:

02/03/2023

Last month, we hosted a conversation exploring the journey toward greater racial equity on boards. In order to recruit and retain board service from Black leaders, it is imperative to examine and evaluate internal operating systems and practices.

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Governance

Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply

Release Date:

01/27/2023

“We need a unicorn.” That’s what we hear nearly every week from organizations seeking their next development director.

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Fundraising

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Virtual Employee Engagement through Virtual Conversational Leadership

Release Date:

01/20/2023

Conversational leadership offers a fundamental rethinking, and more importantly, an opening to the possibility of a “re-feeling” of daily work life in remote, in-person, and hybrid work models.

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Insights from The Mechanics of Working Through Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens - A Workshop Led by PRE

Release Date:

12/06/2022

What does it mean to use a racial justice lens in your grantmaking? And what internal barriers need to be dismantled to advance racial justice?

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

What’s at Stake and What’s at Play: My Reckoning with Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/02/2022

Travis Baird, a Program Officer at the Maverick Capital Foundation, shares how his personal identity has guided his experiences and work within the philanthropic sector and names three tensions he's experienced while making funding decisions.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Maverick Capital Foundation

Is Universal Voting an Idea Whose Time is Coming?

Release Date:

11/17/2022

After the 2020 election, the issue of how (and even whether) American democracy would survive rose to the top of many Americans’ concerns.

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Public Policy

Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All

Release Date:

11/03/2022

Learning on an empty stomach is nearly impossible, but this is the reality for too many students across New York.

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Children, Youth and Families

Food Systems

Public Policy

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New York Health Foundation

We are In a Time of New Suns

Release Date:

10/19/2022

Even if we dramatically slow climate change, we know that climate-related displacement is going to increase, likely dramatically, and we are unprepared.