by Audrey Haberman, managing director of The Giving Practice | Audrey reports on her recent visit to the Aspen Institute's convening on place-based philanthropy.
Recently, banks who work with foundations and nonprofits began moving toward a different loan program called the “credit holder model,” which can open up a whole new world of collateral access. Nazim Karmali and Robert Harding of Pacific Continental Bank explain.
As summer begins to wind down, the philanthropic community across the country is gearing up for a big legislative effort that has been more than a decade in the making: the America Gives More Act (H.R. 4719). Take advantage of the next few weeks to support the passage of the America Gives More Act by communicating with your Senators while they are home for the August recess.
On the July 31 Montana-Wyoming-Idaho Funders Teleconference, Jo Ann Eder, president of The O.P. & W.E. Edwards Foundation, Inc. and Dawn McGee, president of High Stakes Foundation reflected on their separate mission investments into the same project – NeighborWorks Montana and ROC USA.
David Bley and David Wertheimer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have three recent posts addressing related aspects of homelessness on the Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimists blog.