We’ve all heard that a watched pot never boils, yet it seems that philanthropy has been staring at the same pot of water for decades now, hoping to achieve a different outcome.
Too often, funders hinder nonprofits from serving their communities effectively by slowing down progress,...
The Arcora Foundation addresses inequities in dental care through their rich community programs including their mobile dental clinic and no-cost referral services, along with their Capital Clinic Access (CCA) Grants program. The CCA grants provide capital funding to federally qualified health...
This past May, my fellow TGP Senior Advisor Lalitha Vaidyanathan and I were among the fortunate attendees of the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ (GEO) annual conference as both session facilitators and participants.
As we stepped into the main plenary room on the first day, I...
This past March the Innovia Foundation partnered with the nonprofit Community Heart & Soul (CH&S) to bring the latter’s resident-engagement model to small towns in Idaho and eastern Washington. The program asks locals what they love about their community and what future communal goals...
Launched in 2019, the Go Kids program aimed to overcome Oregon’s opportunity gap that is created by factors like where a person lives, their race and family background. Through its four years of operation, the initiative would grant over $2 million dollars in funding for Oregon’s underserved...
For nearly 25 years, TGP senior advisors have been designing and facilitating strategy projects for a wide range of clients from small family and community foundations to large private foundations, philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs) and funder collaboratives.
Across our team, we...
In my role as a senior advisor at The Giving Practice, I have the privilege of closely collaborating with Black women who are both navigating and reshaping the challenging environments of philanthropy during this era of racial reckoning.
Black women have long been at the forefront of...
