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August 2014 |
by Lyn Hunter, senior program manager | If you were a stranger to my little neighborhood in Hillman City, you would probably not be able to match up the individuals who made up a household. We are a beautiful block of “mixed up everything” as one of my neighbors put it. It’s one of the many things that I love about it. And on Tuesday night, we got together for the official annual Night Out celebration - but in our neck of the woods we just called it a good old fashioned neighborhood potluck. Our sixth, we think.
July 2014 |
by David Landers, deputy director | How easy is it to contact your United States Representative or Senator? What about contacting a Congressperson outside of your district who is voting on an issue you care about? Because our public policy work at Philanthropy Northwest aims to support better relationships between the philanthropic and policy sectors, we conducted an experiment to answer those questions at an individual level.
July 2014 |
As the largest wildfire in state history continues to burn in the Methow Valley, along with several other fires around the state, the Community Foundation of North Central Washington is contributing to the relief effort. We've reprinted their announcement in its entirety.
July 2014 |
The Community Democracy Workshop and the Kettering Foundation convened seventeen people committed to community democracy and community engagement from philanthropic, community-based and supporting organizations along with Kettering staff members to learn from each other and explore three questions. Here's a quick summary of what we found.
July 2014 |
by Michael Brown, Vice President of Community Programs, Seattle Foundation | Over the years, The Seattle Foundation has learned some things to share with those considering implementing a mission investment program. (Cross-posted from the Council on Foundations Philanthropy Blog - This post is part of the #CF100 Series of blog posts.)
July 2014 |
by Lyn Hunter, Philanthropy Northwest. Over 100 people gathered on June 26th at Daybreak Star to discuss the findings of a broad-based community engagement process of the local urban Indian community in King County.
June 2014 | Philanthropy Northwest
by Daniel Kemmis, Philanthropy Northwest board member and Kettering Foundation fellow. Almost all philanthropists are contributing to democracy almost all the time, even though most of them don’t think of their daily work in those terms. This unintentional philanthropic contribution to democracy is truly immeasurable. How does this abundance of philanthropic contributions to democracy counterbalance the weakness in so many of our governing institutions? We had a lively session on this topic in May at the joint Philanthropy Northwest – GRANTMAKERS of Oregon and Southwest Washington conference in Oregon. The conversation was just getting fully engaged when the bell rang for the next session, so we’ve invited session participants with more to say to weigh in here.