Less than 2 percent of foundation dollars spent in the past decade have been dedicated to efforts to advance democracy reform, construed broadly. The indifference that this number reflects is astonishing, given the importance of a functioning democracy to almost everything that foundations care...
Kris Hermanns is a Philanthropy Northwest board member and the chief impact officer at Seattle Foundation. She also provides staffing support to ...
Trust-based philanthropy is being embraced by a growing number of family foundations as a way to alleviate power imbalances between funders and grantees while fostering more productive and informative relationships. Driven by the central philosophy that funders should approach grantee...
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Please join us for our Q3 Corporate Member Briefing where we will hear from two leaders from organizations that have issued corporate responses to racial equity in philanthropy.
Beth Cobert, the CEO of Skillful, will tell us about the Rework America...
In March, an unprecedented pandemic raged through Oregon. Two months later in May, Portland became a cultural hotspot making national headlines for its racial injustice protests as the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum across the country. In September, the fiercest fires in the state’s...
Join us for this Conversations in Philanthropy event to learn about an alternative funding model that centers community voices and redistributes decision making power in grantmaking. During this session, an organization that used a participatory funding model that gave seven community of color organizations decision-making on funding, will share the lessons they learned throughout the process. Participants will be able to engage in conversation with our panel of community leaders who have created a coalition through participatory funding.
