A Census Like No Other: A Multi-Sector, Community-Focused Partnership
Despite having millions of households considered “hard-to-count,” and being challenged by a global pandemic, California successfully implemented Census outreach in 2020, generating a 69.6% response rate, higher than the national average response rate. In this session, foundation,…
Numbers Don’t Lie: A Data-Guided Approach to Addressing Racial Inequities in Philanthropic Practice
Philanthropic giving to communities of color remains low. In 2016, The Pittsburgh Foundation began a journey toward more just grantmaking, leading with data to achieve greater equity. This session will provide an overview of an approach that led to sustained increases in monetary and non-monetary…
Participation, Power and Philanthropy: Putting Nonprofits and Communities in the Driver's Seat
As grantmakers, our desire to have a transformational impact on the communities we serve catalyzes and ignites our work. To create the greatest impact, we must work in tandem with nonprofits and those with lived experience to sufficiently understand the issues and to co-create a path forward. What…
Digital Dependencies, Discrimination, and Democracy: What are Philanthropy’s Roles?
Every aspect of public life depends on digital systems. Awareness and adaptation to the potential harms of digital systems is critical to pursuing positive change. Black women are leading the way in scholarship and advocacy regarding the intersections of digital systems, racism and discrimination…
Building the Next-Generation Community Investment Ecosystem: How Foundations Can Advance Racial Equity
Will recovery from COVID-19 and racial reckoning finally bring our society closer to racial justice? This session will explore how foundations can shift the ways capital enters communities of color by helping to build investment ecosystems that finance community priorities. Participants will…
Best Practices for Equitable Philanthropy: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid have conducted two research reports on COVID-19 philanthropy, tracking over $20.2 billion in disaster giving for the pandemic within 2020. Our data from the reports have shown an increase in BIPOC giving over the course of the year, as well as increased…
Bridging Federal and State Political Divides to Address Family Economic Inequality
Join the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, HHS’ Administration for Children and Families, and the American Public Human Services Association on their journey to advance whole family approaches to economic mobility, leveraging a unique public-private partnership with diverse perspectives including…
Town Hall: Philanthropy Bridging Divides
No matter our political persuasion, most of us can agree that America is a divided nation. Elected officials, political parties and the media often fan the flames of division, leaving our nation more angry and our citizens more isolated from each other. What is the role of our sector during these…
HUD Awards Salon: Impact Investing Trends in Place
A special presentation of the 2019 HUD Awards program
Is your foundation working solo? Or are you part of a team working together to change the place that you care about? Successful leaders recognize that by expanding their networks to build bridges across sectors, they can more easily identify…
Prepping for Policy: Philanthropy in the Digital Age
What do education, human service, or social justice funders need to know about digital policy? How does digital policy connect to philanthropic missions? Our ability to mobilize resources for positive change requires understanding issues including intellectual property, telecommunication…
Prioritize 2020 Census - An Urgent Opportunity to Protect Communities
There is concern that the upcoming 2020 Census may be under-resourced and over-politicized, which can lead to low response rates and the undercounting of residents of some of the most at-risk communities. All funders and communities stand to lose in this scenario, losing everything from data for…
Funding A Level Set on Racism: How Philanthropic Organizations are Addressing Structural Racism and Bias in their Communities
How can philanthropic organizations unite to tackle serious, and often uncomfortable, social issues to move communities forward? This session will showcase cross-organizational and cross-sector efforts to confront attitudes and practices that divide communities along racial and ethnic lines. The…
Scaling Up Climate Resilience Around the World
Increasing temperatures and extreme weather events will have profound effects on the economies and health of the world’s most vulnerable communities. In this session, participants will learn how foundations are working to build resilience to climate change by investing in innovative local…
What’s Up in Washington?
The 116th Congress has started with new political dynamics, new legislative priorities, and new opportunities to pursue our sector’s goals. Hear from two of our sector’s top public policy and advocacy experts for a peek inside the workings of Washington’s political apparatus. Get…
Giving without Getting
The leadership of today’s foundations represents $700-800 billion dollars in assets. Economists estimate that even with a rigorous program of grants and program-related investments, all but a select group are dedicating more than 13% of their assets to charitable and social endeavors…
Unrelated Business Income Tax
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 increased the unrelated business income tax (UBIT) liability for many tax-exempt organizations by imposing a tax on the cost of providing certain employee benefits such as parking, transportation and fitness facilities, and by changing how unrelated business…