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... the importance of how our members and community partners are addressing the complexity of affordable housing. ... important issue. M.A. Leonard of Enterprise Community Partners provided an overview of trends in affordable housing ... and Northwest. She highlighted how Enterprise Community Partners is using a land acquisition fund, traditional and ... more »
... D.C. with a number of our Philanthropy Northwest partners and almost 200 others in the philanthropy community ... boards for proposals that could impact our sector and as partners back home. Members of Congress were particularly ... I am grateful to all the Philanthropy Northwest partners who made the trip and hope they found the experience ... more »
Building Community Philanthropy partners will convene in Seattle for their first meeting of ... Washington State and Portland. These convenings give the partners a chance to learn together, challenge each other and ... This event is specific to Building Community Philanthropy partners. For more information on this peer network, please ...
Building Community Philanthropy partners will convene in Seattle for their first meeting of ... Washington State and Portland. These convenings give the partners a chance to learn together, challenge each other and ... This event is specific to Building Community Philanthropy partners. For more information on this peer network, please ...
... hospital administrators, etc.) are engaged as formal partners in the strategies that follow. We also tell the ... business plan.
Lisa Galaites, Talent Partner and Board Liaison | Philanthropy Northwest is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion as key tenets of our culture, policies and processes. As the organization’s talent partner, eager to learn how others in our region think about diversity in the workplace, I joined 1,100 managers, human resource professionals, diversity specialists and employees at the Portland General Electric’s Diversity Summit 2015 earlier this month. Here are my takeaways: more »
... of Wyoming and listen to the practitioners and potential partners. Through that experience, we learned that “vision, ... more »
Leslie Silverman, The Giving Practice | Growing up, I was the only "Hanukkah kid" in my class, so my parents felt compelled to offer me a similar experience in what kids talked about most — the gifts! So, they would give us a gift each evening after we lit the candles. Often, this would amount to seven small toys and games, then a big gift on the eighth and final night. A few years ago, inspired by my work with family foundations, I started to think about how to make the holiday season more meaningful for my son. We created a new tradition: planning out what each night of Hanukkah should be about, beyond buying and exchanging a lot of presents. After a little brainstorming, my 7-year-old son and I came up with eight days of themes: more »
... advocacy, our personal leadership, visionary nonprofit partners, multimedia investments like books and films, and ... more »
... million to arts education in 2015. We have many talented partners empowering young people through the traditional art ...
Tim Crosby, Cascadia Foodshed Financing Project | ... regional food economy. The hope is that we can identify partners and other investors who also see opportunity and ... more »
Kiran Ahuja | Philanthropy Northwest's members are central to our work to promote a more resilient, equitable and inclusive future that honors our past, our people and our cultures regionally. As an organization, we believe that we are at our best when we embrace the future as an opportunity to do more in collaboration with you—our members. We've exciting programs and new initiatives on the horizon, but to have the most impact, we must first appreciate and recognize our strengths as a six-state network. That’s why the next chapter truly begins with you! more »
At Philanthropy Northwest, we partner with members and other stakeholders to ensure healthy, more vibrant, and sustainable futures for our communities.
Rosalie Sheehy Cates | It’s magic to watch impact investing happen in a small town. In June, a group of local people met in Missoula, Montana for 90 minutes and crafted a $300,000 loan enabling a nonprofit organization to buy land for an innovative affordable housing development. Their transaction paves the way for Homeword to develop up to 72 new homes and support services that are sorely needed in Missoula. more »
When disasters strike, the human, economic or environmental impacts often exceed a community’s ability to cope. Every time our communities recover and rebuild, Philanthropy Northwest members are asking, “What can we do to ensure our communities are resilient? How can we better prepare our grantees and ourselves for future disasters?” We hope the resources shared in this learning center can begin to address these questions.
... so that the OAC and its cultural and community partners, can most effectively work together toward a vision ...
... websites and consulting tools with our colleagues and partners in the field. This year, we also launched four ... Sector Reports Our statewide nonprofit association partners in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and ... on our diverse and vibrant sector. In 2016, our partners published a new Northwest Nonprofit Capacity Report ... more »
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 »
... this alone, and are excited to do this with our members, partners and communities. We ask each of you - how are you ... more »
