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What Funders Need to Know About the Next Big Democracy Challenge

Release Date:

12/06/2019

Nonprofit work on redistricting is NOT partisan, and, to achieve truly fair representation, foundation support is crucial to executing deep engagement that establishes community-defined, non-gerrymandered lines that demarcate authentic neighborhood...

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Census 2020

Civic Engagement

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The New York Community Trust

How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

Release Date:

12/05/2019

Recent critiques of philanthropy strike at a fundamental question: How can an institution built on the unjust accumulation of wealth serve as a vehicle for justice?

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation

Us Too: Building Cultures of Consent and Safety in Social Justice Organizations

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11/20/2019

A few days before the site visit, we received news that the director of a new applicant organization had allegations of sexual harassment in his past. We considered how to address it in the upcoming site visit.

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North Star Fund

The Power of Bridging Issue Silos Through Funding Collaboratives

Release Date:

11/13/2019

Unbound Philanthropy’s Taryn Higashi interviews Anita Khashu of Four Freedoms Fund, Bridgit Antoinette Evans of Pop Culture Collaborative and Aleyamma Mathew of Collaborative for Women’s Safety and Dignity to discuss the role of cross-issue...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Unbound Philanthropy

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

International Grantmakers Unite: Grappling with the State of the World

Release Date:

11/06/2019

The International Grantmakers Network (IGN) provides a unique opportunity to effect positive change by working communally as philanthropic professionals to take advantage of this transitional moment.

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Kavelman Group Philanthropic Advisors

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Accessibility Takes a Community

Release Date:

10/31/2019

New York is home to about 1 million people with disabilities, a community that reflects the rich diversity of the City itself. Disabled New Yorkers are students, parents, employees, and retirees; they visit museums, seek healthcare, use immigrant...

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Disabilities

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The New York Community Trust

The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation

Release Date:

10/23/2019

The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP)* came together earlier this year to support and advance the equitable evaluation field of study and practice.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Aging and HIV/AIDS: A New Era of Convergence

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10/17/2019

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, an HIV diagnosis was a virtual death sentence. Aging was not on the agenda and the medical, community, and philanthropic support structures for aging and HIV/AIDS were worlds apart.

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Aging

Health

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Grantmakers in Aging

Philanthropy's Social Compact In A Changing World

Release Date:

10/09/2019

Trust in philanthropy is eroding. Widening inequality is contributing to public fears and anxiety about the roles various types of institutions play in public life—be they philanthropy, government, business, or academia.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Fear, Hope, and Hunger: Inside the Crisis at the Southern Border

Release Date:

10/03/2019

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to see firsthand the horrid and inhumane living conditions in which the migrants at our Southern Border find themselves.