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August 2022 | The Giving Practice

Last month, NASA famously released images from the James-Webb telescope, providing the world with a previously unseen perspective of our universe. These awe-inspiring photographs amplify our curiosity about what exists among the stars and how it connects to us here on earth. This inquisitiveness...

TGP's Summer Reading List 2022
August 2022 | The Giving Practice

We’re thrilled to introduce you to five new colleagues who joined our team this past quarter. Jeanine, Emily, Audrey, Mary and Lalitha come to us with a wide range of professional experiences – from leading operations at a major family foundation to supporting community capacity-building in...

Meet our new TGP consultants and staff!
August 2022 | The Giving Practice

Bold, curious, reflective, human. Here’s what we’ve been hearing this past quarter in philanthropy:     

The quotes below are from two in-person conferences that our team has attended this year: GEO’s 2022 National Conference and The United...

Overheard in Philanthropy: In Person!
July 2022 | The Giving Practice

When Warren Brown became the Executive Director of College Spark Washington in April, 2020, his board was open to exploring a new mission that emphasized racial equity in its longstanding college grantmaking program.

One of the board’s big questions, Warren recalls, was: “What about the...

What about the endowment? How college spark foundation completely redirected its investing practices in 12 months
April 2022 | The Giving Practice

In 2020, in an effort to better center community, the Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Foundation piloted a new grantmaking program that engages local PSE employees across their 10 counties in the grant review and decision making processes. Two years later, the relationships between PSE and the...

Featured Image with Title: Centering Community with Puget Sound Energy Foundation. Reflections on adaptive grantmaking practices. Interview. Headshots of interviewees, Nina Odell and Rachel Benner to the left. The Giving Practice's logo in the bottom right corner.
March 2022 | The Giving Practice

After two full years of living in a post-pandemic world with seemingly endless cycles of hope followed by grief followed by hope and then grief again, we often feel exhausted – like we’re running on empty.  

In our last TGP team meeting, our consultants came together to share strategies...

Featured Image with title on solid dark blue background, white The Giving Practice logo in the right bottom corner, and a sketch of hands high fiving in the bottom left corner.

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