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Foundation leaders often cite their boards as an impediment to the shifts in practices they see as necessary in these ... yet most foundation boards remain overwhelmingly white. How can foundation CEOs and boards evolve so that boards are ... and how that inequity affects the foundation’s work? What lessons can be learned from foundation boards that have ...
Event Type: Partner
Funding Area: Racial Equity
Publication Date: September, 2019
... companies can play by leveraging skills-based volunteering to invest in a community’s resilience. This report ... tools to enable companies to tap into the skills and know-how of their employees and equip our communities to ...
Resource Type: Report
Audience: Corporate Giving
Funding Area: Disaster Response/Relief
Publication Date: October, 2012
... resource, which covers the basic legal rules around what staff are allowed to fund and engage in at a private foundation. Learn ...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Audience: All Funders
Topic: AdministrationGovernance
Publication Date: November, 2015
... Indigenous Peoples: Strategies for Support , looks at how funders collaborate with and bring support to indigenous communities around the world. Through examples ...
Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: All Funders
Publication Date: May, 2018
... in the United States. Released by the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) and Feeding America, the study ... older adults faced hunger at this time than before the Great Recession. This latest report also provides information ... on the characteristics of older adults who struggle to meet their nutritional needs and the rates by state of ...
Resource Type: Report
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Food/Agriculture/NutritionSeniors/Aging
Calling all funders with interests in the environment, public health, ... justice, urban development, and policy! We welcome you to join the Environmental Funders Affinity Group for ... justice, public health, and protection of our natural resources for future generations. Please join us at Duke ...
Event Type: Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Environment
Publication Date: March, 2024
... published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, aims to clarify what a trust-based approach truly entails, why it is crucial ... philanthropy and what kind of progress we can make if more funders adopt this approach.
Resource Type: ReportResource Guide
Audience: All Funders
... a leadership transition grows, many common practices of funders, including a “Wait and see” approach, are failing organizations just when they need extra support. Given the deeply destabilizing impact of ... and action-oriented session with Leading Forward to learn from social sector professionals who are leaning ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Welcome to the new year! It was wonderful seeing so many members at ... philanthropy’s role in narrative change. You can find resources from the event, including slides and workshop ... part of goal 1.
Publication Date: January, 2015
... the Southern Law Poverty Center, the guide (available in pdf and website formats) provides advice and suggestions for responding to everyday bigotry in a variety of settings-- among family, ... family, friends, classmates and co-workers. They told us what they did or didn’t say — and what they wished they ...
Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: All Funders
Welcome to our members-only portal to the National Center for Family Philanthropy Knowledge Center.
Publication Date: October, 2012
... is not a new idea recent efforts have contributed to a more sophisticated understanding of how to ensure that co-funding arrangements have the desired ...
Resource Type: Research
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Strategy & Collaboration
Publication Date: July, 2022
... social, and structural factors affect our ability to learn. This tool is to help foundations take stock of ... (evaluative) look at themselves as systems and how people work within them. The tool is based on the work of ... in the system — such as skill building or the flow of resources or information. We find this can be true with ...
Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: All Funders
CNJG is pleased to extend an inviation from our colleague PSO, Grantmakers ... detaining people in rural areas far from legal resources. In this webinar session – a part of GCIR’s ... across the country. Cost: Free for CNJG Members You will need to register for a free web account on GCIR’s website ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Community Improvement/DevelopmentHuman Services
CNJG is pleased to extend an inviation from our colleague PSO, Grantmakers ... to build power domestically and transnationally, and how funders can support this diverse community. Cost : Free for CNJG Members You will need to register for a free web account on GCIR’s website ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Community Improvement/DevelopmentHuman Services
Publication Date: May, 2021
Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Financial Documents 2020.
Resource Type: CNJG Documents/Reports
Publication Date: April, 2020
... global nonprofit organization that brings people together to solve complex challenges like poverty, published this report that “explores how the provision of general operating support and capacity building can help [funders and] donors improve the impact of nonprofit ...
Topic: Grants Management
The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers joins the Funders Census Initiative, United Philanthropy Forum, and ... organizations around the country in asking our members to support and encourage a fair and accurate Census in 2020. ... There are several things you and your grantees can do to stand up for a fair, accurate Census: Sign on to a ...
News Type: CNJG News
Audience: All Funders
Publication Date: June, 2014
... diversity in the senior ranks of foundations have proven to be a stubborn challenge for the field of philanthropy. A ... pathways of professionals of color in philanthropy—how they enter foundations, how they advance across their careers, and what factors affect their advancement within the sector. ...
Resource Type: Research
Audience: All Funders
Publication Date: February, 2015
... Strengthening Effectiveness Together , GrantCraft looks at how funders approach building capacity with grantees. Through ... and the types of awareness that funders can choose to incorporate in decision making to facilitate informed, ...
Resource Type: Best PracticeResearch
Audience: All Funders