Jeff Clarke, CEO | The Pacific Northwest has a unique and globally influential culture marked by innovation, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, generosity and stewardship. Our region’s commitment to innovation drives our growing leadership in impact investing — leveraging private capital for social good. Impact investors seek opportunities to earn a financial return while also doing something good for society. Their aspirations are changing the way we think about solutions to big social problems like homelessness, poverty and unemployment. more »
Our Catalyst Fellows are an experiment in network learning. They will forge connections between place and the multiple forms of capital that vibrant, equitable and inclusive communities require, including but not limited to: natural capital, civic
Mitchell Thomashow, Catalyst Fellow | For each of us, our community, landscape and identity create a fluid concept: place. Environmental thinkers use place as a common ground for deepening local awareness of ecological relationships, with bioregionalism as a compelling manifestation of that impulse, suggesting that political boundaries, governance and public policy must be considered within the natural connections of geographic settings. We regard place-based thinking as the foundation of community relationships as well as the appropriate scale for civic engagement; this concept has also become part of the literature in anthropology, economics, education and political science. We believe it has an important role to play in philanthropy, as well, as The Russell Family Foundation and other Philanthropy Northwest members have demonstrated in their place-based community partnerships. more »
Maya Thornell-Sandifor, Director of Learning Strategy | ... have impact in 2017:
Bridging Divides Between Unlikely Partners
Has philanthropy done all it can to acknowledge and respond to ... design cue for 2.0 include authentic engagement of community partners, creating a learning organization and impact investing.
If you ... more »
Anne Yoon, The Giving Practice | ... filled with materials from our 40-year history. Many of our partners have also have amassed decades of artifacts, including Boeing ( ... more »
Jan Jaffe, Senior Partner, The Giving Practice | In celebration of Black History Month and continued observance of this year’s National Day of Racial Healing, our team sat with Dr. Gail C. Christopher, a former Senior Advisor and Vice President at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and architect of the foundation's Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) framework, to discuss what reflective practices she has used to meet challenges as a philanthropic practitioner. more »
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. more »
Vu Le, Rainier Valley Corps | Philanthropy Northwest's team joined more than 100 nonprofits, funders, community leaders and governmental representatives at a February 17 discussion on Protecting Marginalized Communities During the Next Four Years. Together, we explored shared challenges and opportunities for strategic partnerships with Rainier Valley Corps, OneAmerica, Children's Alliance, Centerstone, Potlatch Fund, Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS) and other marginalized community-led organizations based in Seattle. Philanthropy Northwest will poll the participating funders as a follow-up to this discussion, and we invite you to read this message from Vu Le, executive director of Rainier Valley Corps, to learn more about our conversation: more »
Maya Thornell-Sandifor, Director of Learning Strategies | As we launch the second round of our two-year Momentum Fellowship program, it’s my honor to introduce below 10 leaders from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and communities. I hope you’ll get to meet them at #PNW17, our annual conference coming up next week, Oct. 3-5, in Vancouver, WA. more »
Join our colleagues at the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers for a brief webinar to learn about the latest sustainable agriculture and food systems policy trends and hear about the efforts of a national group of funders collaborating on these issues. Also during the webinar, a regional association of grantmakers will share how their members are engaging in these topics
Steven G.W. Moore, M.J. Murdock Memorial Trust | As the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust wrapped up 2016 by awarding close to $9.7 million in grants to more than 50 organizations, bringing its total investment in nonprofits last year to $48.96 million, we are pleased to share this message from executive director Steve Moore: While the election season and inauguration have been grabbing the headlines in recent weeks, we cannot help but reflect on a different story! The deep investment that volunteers, staff, leaders and citizens are making in our communities continues throughout the region and the country in creative, thoughtful, and sacrificial ways. This civic engagement and volunteerism is a big story happening across the country and making a difference in people’s lives. more »
... that serve those communities.
Selecting nonprofit partners whose missions align with their values of DEI.
Engaging nonprofits as partners and forging long-term relationships with them.
Building nonprofit ...
... points about how you wind down well, to your grantee partners and your staff team, and leaving the legacy you hope to achieve. ... in a way that doesn’t create a cliff for your key grantee partners? How do you keep your team in place to sustain the work and support it ... more »
In celebration of Black History Month and continued observance of this year’s National Day of Racial Healing, our team sat with Dr. Gail C. Christopher, a former Senior Advisor and Vice President at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and architect of the foundation's Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) framework, to discuss what reflective practices she has used to meet challenges as a philanthropic practitioner. 
Liz Moore, Montana Nonprofit Association
