Recruiting a diverse board is only one step toward sustainability. Without a robust onboarding process, peer mentoring and continuing engagement, board members may not find ways to contribute their unique expertise to your foundation's work. In this session, leadership from Greater Tacoma Community...
Two new philanthropic initiatives, backed by Seattle Foundation, are piloting innovative ways to help more workers and working families get housing. The Evergreen Impact Housing Fund and Black Home Initiative, in partnership with Microsoft, have taken creative approaches to generate more funding by...
Does your organization have what it takes to be an effective collaborator? This Pretty Good Tool from the consultants at The Giving Practice helps you assess and improve your collaborative mindset. After testing an early version of this at an Independent Sector conference session, we have been...
What happens when you reach an impasse in dialogues? Sometimes words are an "aide-de-camp" to sustain attention to what’s hard to talk about with others. Read about the use of images, metaphors, stories and poems in philanthropy.
Nicole Neroulias Gupte, Communications Manager | Seattle-based retailer REI made national news this fall by announcing it would remain closed on Black Friday — one of the biggest shopping days of the year — while paying the co-op's 12,000 employees and encouraging its 5.5 million members to spend...
Jeff Clarke's reflection on our recent conferences, The River Gathering: A Confluence of People, Places and Spirit (April 30 - May 2) and Mission Investor's Exchange, Sparking Change (May 13-15).