Latest Releases from the field - October 2018
Below is a list of recently released resources and upcoming events from throughout the philanthropic sector.
Resources from the Field
Strengthening Grantees: Foundation and Nonprofit Perspectives
The Center for Effective Philanthropy
Strong organizations, leaders, and networks are crucial to foundations’ and nonprofits’ ability to achieve shared goals. What support are foundations seeking to provide to help grantees strengthen their organizations? Is that support in line with what grantees really need? How can funders be most helpful in this area? The report provides a comprehensive examination of foundations’ efforts to strengthen grantee organizations and leaders. The data reveals that foundations are not as in touch with nonprofits’ needs as they think they are, and that both foundations and nonprofits alike have a role to play in closing the gap between the support nonprofits need and the support foundations provide.
Get on the Balcony: How Grantmakers Can Ignite Change
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
In a continually changing world with emerging challenges and opportunities, grantmakers must be prepared to tackle the most pressing issues that our communities face, in authentic partnership with nonprofits. This publication is for those who are not yet sure what change needs to be made to address the challenges they face. This publication seeks to offer some helpful approaches for jump-starting a change initiative, drawn from the reflections of GEO members who have been tasked with assessing challenges and cultivating the conditions for a productive change process.
Great Funder–Nonprofit Relationships Toolkit
Exponent Philanthropy
This toolkit is designed to help funders recognize the aspects of great relationships with nonprofit partners, assess competencies and consider ways to improve how to work with one another. Many ideas in this toolkit were generated by funders and nonprofits during a series of half-day programs around the country that Exponent hosted in partnership with the National Council of Nonprofits and with funding from the Fund for Shared Insight.
Opportunity Atlas Estimates Social Mobility by Census Tract
Collaboration by Researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University
For the first time, public access to highly localized data on social mobility is available through a new interactive tool released in October called The Opportunity Atlas. A mapping interface allows users to conduct custom analyses for neighborhoods. It lets them better understand which neighborhoods offer children the best chances of climbing the income ladder later in life.
Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
Foundation Center
The new GrantCraft guide explores the why and how of Participatory Grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking is an alternative approach to the typical staff-recommended, board-approved model of grantmaking common in most foundations. Created with input from a number of participatory grantmakers, the guide shares challenges, lessons learned, and best practices for engaging in inclusive grantmaking.
Strenthening Philanthropy's Capacity to Engage in Policy
United Philanthropy Forum
Nine years ago, United Philanthropy Forum started a capacity-building initiative intended to prepare philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs)—including IPA—for individual, collaborative, and collective policy work at all levels of government. A new report highlights key areas of progress for the Forum during its first nine years. It documents some dramatic gains in regional PSOs’ capacity to engage in government relations, advocacy, and public policy work.
DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities today
Neighborhood Funders Group, Funders For Justice
Funders for Justice created this website for funders because they believe that our collective investments in housing, education, health, transportation, food security, and jobs will fail if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’s resources from criminalization. This website is a toolkit for grantmakers, donors, and funder affinity groups, to help funders in confronting mass criminalization.
Events from the Field
Indiana Blacks in Philanthropy Conference
NOV 4-5 | GARY
Indiana Blacks in Philanthropy
Don’t miss the Indiana Blacks in Philanthropy (IBIP) Conference, which includes a Sunday evening reception (5 – 7 p.m), a Monday morning IBIP regional meeting (9-10:30 a.m.), and day-long workshops at the IU Northwest Campus in Gary. This conference seeks to engage and inspire minority populations in the study of philanthropy and provides a platform to discuss opportunities to advance equity in the philanthropic sector. We encourage all IBIP members to attend this free convening, which is open to students, funders, and community partners and leaders. You can also find information, including a parking map, on IPA’s website.
Ending Health Inequities in Indiana
The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis
OCT 22 | INDIANAPOLIS
This day-long conference will explore inequities in healthcare and services provided to minority populations in Indiana. Presented by The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis (THFGI), the focus demographics of this discussion will be African American MSM, women of color, and African American and Latinx transgender men and women. It is THFGI’s intention to present an agenda that focuses not only on the issues and consequences of health inequality, but also encourages innovation in service delivery among providers.
Working Better Together to Further Advance a Midwest Funders Strategy for Equity and Opportunity
Neighborhood Funders Group
OCT 26 | WEBINAR
Our friends at Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) invite you to join your peers in philanthropy for a strategy discussion that will highlight the potential for a collaborative effort of building a Midwest learning community committed to advancing racial justice, powerbuilding, and opportunity for all people.
Diversifying Talent in Educational Advancement
IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
OCT 30 | INDIANAPOLIS
Join a discussion hosted by IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy on how to adopt a more inclusive orientation in the increasingly important world of educational advancement and allied professions. Jim Moore, President & CEO of University of Illinois Foundation, will be interviewed by Dr. Amir Pasic, Eugene R. Tempel Dean and Professor of Philanthropic Studies.
Race Matters: Faith & Philanthropy in the African American Community
Lake Institute on Faith and Giving
NOV 6 | INDIANAPOLIS
Explore the intersections of faith, race, and philanthropy with panelists Brad Braxton, Aimée Laramore and Starsky Wilson. This Lake Distinguished Visitor Panel is presented by Lake Institute on Faith and Giving, Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Christian Theological Seminary, and the 2018 Spirit & Place Festival. See attached flyer.
Philanthropy Southwest 70th Annual Conference
Philanthropy Southwest
NOV 1-3 | Galveston, TX
Philanthropy Southwest’s Annual Conference consistently draws several hundred trustees and staff attendees from grantmaking organizations of all types and sizes. Registration is open to trustees and staff of grantmaking organizations and provides the opportunity to connect with fellow philanthropists located or making investments in the Southwestern United States.
2018 AIDS Philanthropy Summit
Funders Concerned About AIDS
NOV 5-6 | Washington, DC
This year's summit will identify new tools and opportunities to increase investment in the community-based approaches that are so critical to the fight against HIV/AIDS by engaging in strategic conversations on what’s happening among impacted communities, building skills and discuss best practices to effectively support the hard to reach and excluded communities, and sharing the results of its research on funding for community-based responses.
Investment Forum for Foundations and Endowments
Council of New Jersey Grantmakers
NOV 7 | Somerset, NJ
This biennial conference is for foundations and nonprofit charities who manage an endowment and want to gain access to leading investment experts and professional advisors and engage in valuable discussion focused on successful endowment management. Attendees will be able to participate in interactive sessions on portfolio construction, alternative investing, policies and practices for governing a corpus, effective approaches to small endowment stewardship, the evolutions of ETFs, and much more.
2018 Philanthropy WV Annual Conference
Philanthropy West Virginia
NOV 7-8 | Charleston, WV
This year's conference theme is "The Power of Persistence" and will feature philanthropy in action tours, a panel on philanthropy's response to the opioid crisis, and keynote by fellow Forum member, Michelle Greanias, Executive Director with PEAK Grantmaking.
SECF’s 49th Annual Meeting
Southeastern Council of Foundations
NOV 7-9 | Louisville, KY
SECF’s 49th Annual Meeting will draw grantmakers, experts and thought leaders for three days of connection, engagement and inspiration highlighting the trends, people and challenges that will define philanthropy in the years ahead.
2018 Post-Election Briefing for Grantmakers
Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce and other co-sponsors
NOV 27 | Washington, DC
This November, the whole House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, 36 governorships, and many state legislature seats are up for election. The results of this year’s midterm elections will have an enormous impact in shaping the political landscape for years to come. Assessing the new policy and funding environment will be critical as we build compelling and successful agendas for advancing our work to support struggling families, workers and communities.
HEFN Annual Meeting
Health and Environmental Funders Network
NOV 28-30 | Pittsburgh, PA
Majorities that would support environmental health and justice goals are activated and mobilized. But majorities do not automatically translate into power for change. Allies and assets are energized, but they are dispersed and focused on many priorities. Funders, donors and philanthropic advisers are invited to explore ideas around which to rally our numbers at HEFN's 2018 Annual Meeting.