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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced the nine winners of the 2018 Award for Health Equity, which celebrates individuals who have changed systems ... award winners represent everything that the Foundation is investing in to make the healthy choice the easy choice ...
News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Publication Date: August, 2014
Building Power through Data-Sharing: Issues and Opportunities ... Funders Network, explores ways funders can build power in their fields through investments in data-sharing. While ... issues and opportunities described in the paper are useful to funders across a broad array of issue areas. Building ...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Technology
Publication Date: June, 2021
Responding to the urgency of this moment in time, Asset Funder Network’s new brief is reimagining and building on past recommendations to map ... from local and national funders that are applying an equity lens with a range of strategies to support Relief ...
Resource Type: Case Study
Publication Date: September, 2018
... Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, the Scattergood Foundation has developed resource guides to educate funders ... role building the trauma-informed movement. The science is clear – the effects of trauma and adversity build up ... in this work. By understanding the science and deploying resources in creative ways, funders can build knowledge and ...
Resource Type: Report
Funding Area: ChildrenHealth-General & Rehabilitative
... state-sanctioned violence against Black individuals. There is much that philanthropy can do to respond – invest in ... Wherever your foundation or giving program is in your equity journey – we invite you to a conversation with the Camden Funders Affinity Group to discuss tools and resources for more equitable grantmaking, organizational ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
CNJG is pleased to offer this four-part webinar series, hosted by ... The series will focus on using trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s grantmaking practices, culture, ... do their work in the name of building community, advancing equity, and increasing opportunity – however our sector’s ...
Event Type: Partner
Publication Date: August, 2016
Foundation leaders have a unique opportunity to serve as powerful champions of their missions. Partnering with your grantees can amplify your impact. The following guide is designed to help you start having an honest conversation ...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Audience: Board/Trustees
Topic: Governance
... Funding from Turrell Fund, Challenge Grant from Foundation for Newark’s Future Help Launch Shared ... education opportunities for Newark children ages zero to three. The group’s strategy is built on cornerstone funding of over $500,000 from the ...
News Type: News
Funding Area: ChildrenEducationalNewark Funders
... members of private foundations and endowed charities in the Tri-State region. Join leaders of private foundations ... at The Palace in Somerset. You’ll gain rare access to leading asset managers, financial service institutions, ... the danger of conflating risk and volatility, changing your investment provider, asset allocation strategy, new ...
Event Type: Signature Events
Topic: Finance
Publication Date: April, 2009
To answer the basic question of how many active family foundations are planning to spend down or exist in perpetuity (or have not yet made a decision), and to ... foundations’ motivations and decision-making, the Foundation Center, in collaboration with the Council on ...
Resource Type: Research
Audience: Family Foundation
Topic: Family Philanthropy
... the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers established a Racial Equity Task Force made up of leaders at CNJG member organizations. The task force’s mandate is to develop goals and objectives to create a roadmap for ... work to support systemic change. Philanthropy must invest resources towards advocacy to affect policy, and take that ...
News Type: CNJG News
These links and materials are presented as guides to help facilitate foundations and government agencies seeking partnerships or engagements to support mutual goals. Council on Foundations’ ... an article from Let's Talk Philanthropy The Essentials for Collaboration Between Foundations and Government from the ...
... philanthropy starts with leadership and governance. What is the role of CEOs, trustees and senior leadership in instituting a culture of trust -- with each other, with foundation staff and in all of your foundation’s grantmaking practices? And how can a ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: Board/TrusteesExecutive Staff
On Monday, May 11, YWCA Princeton began major renovations to improve its existing facilities and programs. The ... construction includes a new childcare wing named The Burke Foundation Center for Childhood through a leadership gift from The Burke Foundation and is scheduled to be completed in time for the fall 2020 school ...
News Type: News
Funding Area: Children
The FirstEnergy Foundation awarded more than $3.43 million to nearly 100 organizations across its six-state service ... development, educational and social justice initiatives. In addition, FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) provided $220,000 ...
News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Funding Area: EducationalHealth-General & RehabilitativeRacial Equity
CNJG is pleased to offer this webinar series designed by our ... trusted community partners. How do you define and measure your impact in a consistent and powerful way? Finding the ... unique needs can be complex but the right tools and resources can make the work manageable. Join this webinar to ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: Community Foundation
Publication Date: April, 2007
... 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, ... websites. Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations ...
Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: Corporate Giving
Funding Area: Disaster Response/Relief
Publication Date: July, 2018
... they have a unique opportunity—and responsibility—to work proactively toward equity and inclusivity. Increasingly, grantmaking ... practices and drive decision making. PEAK Grantmaking is working to better understand and build the capacity of ...
Resource Type: Research
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Racial Equity
... as other industries. While on the Hill, we heard the bill is likely to be introduced in the next few weeks. In ... procedures.
Publication Date: August, 2008
A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grant making ... creative approaches, and nourish change inside your own foundation from Grantcraft.
Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: All Funders