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June 2015 | Philanthropy Northwest
Jeff Clarke continues his series of conversations with leaders in the region and across the field with Mickey Babcock, founder of the Equipoise Fund, a private foundation that aims to energize, enrich and encourage the vision, voice and visibility of Wyoming's women and girls.
June 2015 |
Kristen Holway, Senior Manager, Learning Practice | Philanthropy Northwest recently welcomed Bipartisan Policy Center president Jason Grumet and senior fellow Sen. Olympia Snowe, for a discussion on how philanthropy can help bring lawmakers together across party lines. Here's what we learned:
June 2015 |
Hilary Canty, Executive Director, Orcas Island Community Foundation | In 2011, with assets of $4 million spread across 70+ funds, we had outgrown our "off the shelf" bookkeeping software, spending over half of our precious staff time on accounting. We struggled with finding right sized technology. Like Goldilocks, the existing programs just did not fit, being too cumbersome, too complicated, and far too expensive. Not a recipe for growth. Fortunately, the stars aligned.
June 2015 |
Hedrick Smith | Journalist and author Hedrick Smith shares stories of democracy reform and provides accessible points of entry through his new website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org.
June 2015 | Philanthropy Northwest
Jon Stahl, Communications Director | Last week we were thrilled to welcome a capacity crowd of 70+ philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, government officials, nonprofit leaders and academics to Boise, Idaho for the second event in our 2015 Local Matters series. Here's what we talked about.
May 2015 |
Jill Blair and Malka Kopell, The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions | Much of our 20th century civic infrastructure emerged as a product of philanthropic investment: organizations and programs intended to advance equity, education and economic opportunity. We call upon philanthropy now, large and small, personal and institutional, to lead the rebuilding effort — to construct a 21st century civic infrastructure that leverages the resources we now have to solve the problems we still face.
May 2015 |
Dan Brettler, Gordon McHenry, Jr. and David Wertheimer, Gates Foundation | There are many different crises that can catapult a family into homelessness: Loss of a job, domestic violence, accidents or serious illness, and inter-generational poverty – to name just a few. In addition, despite efforts to coordinate, past experiences in responding to homelessness have shown us that, although admirable, fragmented, non-integrated efforts to solve this problem by organizations and systems working independently and on their own have not stemmed the tide of this crisis. The good news is that we now know what works.