Publication Date: June, 2018
The role of corporate philanthropy is at a pivotal point as executive, employee, and customer expectations shift and ...
Community Foundation of South Jersey (CFSJ), has awarded a fifth round ... and a lack of childcare. These grants build on the Foundation’s efforts to help those on the front line ... access to these essential services and more,” said CFSJ Executive Director Andy Fraizer. “We applaud the efforts of ...
Publication Date: December, 2020
United Philanthropy Forum is committed to advancing racial equity in philanthropy. We provide space for our members to connect, learn and share together on how to effectively address racial equity in their work as philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs), and works to share our members’ learnings with the broader philanthropy field. As part of these efforts, we are pleased to share case stories from our members about their racial equity work.
Case Story
Funders Together to End Homelessness: A Racial Equity Learning Journey
Funders Together to End Homelessness began its racial equity journey in 2016. Its case story explains how the PSO named racial equity in its strategic plan and embarked on a learning journey together with its board, staff, and members to normalize the conversation about structural and historic racism and how it contributes to disparities in the homelessness system. The story also describes how Funders Together created a two-year community of practice, called Foundations for Racial Equity (FRE), that has been a critical part of its journey, and how its codified its racial equity work through the creation of its Commitment to Racial Equity.
Read Funders Together’s Case Story
Listen to Funders Together’s CEO Amanda Misiko Andere talk about her organization’s racial equity journey on an episode of the ForumNation podcast.
Case Story
Southeastern Council of Foundations: An Experiential Racial Equity Journey
In early 2018, the Southeastern Council of Foundations (SECF) along with its board undertook a racial equity learning journey in order to develop an Equity Framework that would describe and define SECF’s character, what it stood for, and what its leaders were willing to fight for. The decision to develop the Equity Framework was the culmination of years of work. SECF’s case story explains how the organization used data to inform the development of its Equity Framework, created an Equity Task Force to lead the effort of developing a Framework, and engaged board, staff and Task Force members in a racial equity learning journey.
Read SECF’s Case Story
Listen to SECF’s President & CEO Janine talk about her organization’s racial equity journey on an episode of the ForumNation podcast.
... D. Petermann, CPA , Co-Partner-in-Charge Private Foundation Practice Scott A. Brown, CPA , Partner Private ... covering most-asked-about topics . Keith Timko , Executive Director One Gateway Center, Ste. 2600 Newark, NJ ... specializes in organizational development, consulting and executive transition and has worked with grantmakers directly ...
... distinguished panel discussion moderated by Jean Westrick, Executive Director of the Technology Association of ... : Connector Sponsors - Campbell Soup Company, Sixers Youth Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In the coming weeks, we’ll share more details ...
... discussion, and side-by-side learning with foundation and nonprofit colleagues. We’re pleased to ... than $500 million to strengthen communities through local news. Press Forward now includes 36 locally led chapters in ... staff and trustees. The federal funding rollbacks and executive actions continue to harm nonprofits and the work ...
... The Technology Association of Grantmakers’ new Executive Director, Jean Westrick, moderated our esteemed panel that included Don Chen, President, Surdna Foundation; Rachel Kimber, Full Circle Solutions; and Dave ...
The Provident Bank Foundation awarded more than $620,000 in grants to 43 ... as well as three in Pennsylvania and one in New York. The foundation’s awards went to its three priority areas: ... The amount of the grants ranged from $5,000 to $25,000. Executive Director Samantha Plotino said the foundation ...
The Provident Bank Foundation on Tuesday announced the recipients of its 2023 Signature Grant cycle. The foundation awarded three $100,000 grants to support nonprofit ... systemic issues at their root causes,” Samantha Plotino, executive director of the Provident Bank Foundation, said. ...
The Healthcare Foundation of NJ is pleased to announce that it has awarded ... issued at the end of 2023 was one way in which the Foundation is taking action to address the crisis in our area and among our community,” said Michael Schmidt, Executive Director and CEO of The Healthcare Foundation of ...
The WSFS CARES Foundation, the charitable giving arm of WSFS Bank (Nasdaq: ... series of philanthropic activities by WSFS and the Foundation. The grants were approved in the fourth quarter by ... and encourage leadership," said Patrick J. Ward, Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania Market President at ...
As The Westfield Foundation marks its 50th anniversary, the organization is ... of service, partnership, and impact,” said Katie Darcy, executive director of The Westfield Foundation. “When the Foundation was established in 1975, ...
The Devils Youth Foundation, which serves as the charitable arm for the New ... initiative and ongoing nutritional programming. The foundation also raised an additional $80,000 through the ... efforts in mitigating hunger in Greater Newark. UCC Executive Director Craig Mainor obviously was thrilled. “We ...
A $1,000,000 donation from The Pascale Sykes Foundation to the New Jersey Community Capital and the ... a call to action last spring by The Association of Black Foundation Executives, which advocates for transformative ... a relationship formed between The Pascale Sykes Foundation and the AACCNJ. “As sole proprietorships and ...
... of US Advisory Group, Bridgespan, and Lucy Vandenberg, Executive Director, the Schumann Fund for New Jersey, to ... to our Annual Meeting sponsors , Prudential, Victoria Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Devils Youth Foundation, Horizon Blue Cross Blue ...
The F. M. Kirby Foundation Board of Directors announced 248 grants totaling ... communities in a year of unprecedented challenges. The Foundation’s 2020 grantmaking included grants in support of ... and Culture Pandemic Relief Fund,” stated Justin Kiczek, Executive Vice President. The F. M. Kirby Foundation ...
... recent meeting of the Board of Directors, the F. M. Kirby Foundation announces 87 grants totaling $7.7 million were ... As part of its Diversity and Justice Initiative, the Foundation has invested $1.8 million during the first four ... strong, healthy communities,” stated Justin Kiczek, Executive Vice President. “Our grants within the Diversity ...
The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (HFNJ) is pleased to announce that ... by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The requests The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey received this quarter demonstrate ... ever-more complex health needs,” said Michael Schmidt, Executive Director and CEO of the Healthcare Foundation of ...
The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (HFNJ) has awarded $1,219,591 to 12 ... recover from the pandemic,” said Michael Schmidt, Executive Director and CEO of the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey. Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey ...
... for their first 3-year term: Jasmyne Beckford, Prudential Foundation, and Paul DiLorenzo, Salem Health and Wellness Foundation, as well as re-electing several trustees for ... officers for 2024: Craig Drinkard, Chair, (Victoria Foundation), Christine Healey, 1st Vice Chair, (The Healey ...
