Foundations Accelerating Impact Through the Use of Guarantees
A highly impactful but less understood impact investing tool are unfunded guarantees. Led by the Kresge Foundation, seven foundations – of varying sizes -- are collaborating to launch the Community Investment Guarantee Facility (CIGF) that will make guarantees in the housing, small…
Reimagining the Council on Foundations: A Member Visioning Session with Kathleen Enright
What is the highest and best role for philanthropy? And how can the Council support our members and the field to reach our potential and address the most pressing issues of our time? Join Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of The Council on Foundations, for an interactive visioning session to…
Helping Foundations Understand their Connection to Social Impact… with the Arts
Please note this session has limited seating and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Using as a jumping off point Americans for the Arts' new interactive tool, the Arts + Social Impact Explorer, this interactive workshop will engage participants in a dialogue about how…
The Age of Uncritiqued Philanthropy is Over
Join Jessamyn Shams-Lau, Executive Director of the Peery Foundation, in a frank and practical discussion on how to navigate the new wave of critique of our industry. We'll cover talking about feedback with your team, how to keep your board informed and keep your job, and how to personally react…
Creating a Health Equity Movement for Inclusive Economic Prosperity
In 2015, a new, place-based private foundation embraced an activist health equity mission in Pinellas County, Florida, just a generation after the segregation and discrimination of the Jim Crow era. After four years of listening within the community, the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg is…
Foundations and Democracy: What Is Philanthropy's Role in a Time of Division and Mistrust?
While polarization and mistrust have been building for decades in the United States, our political climate seems to have reached new levels of anger and divisiveness. Given the magnitude of the many challenges facing our society, our country urgently needs to come together; despite this, we are…
PACE Meeting: Language Perception Project
Discussion of results from a recent project to understand perceptions of language associated with civic engagement and democracy work. By invitation only, but reach out to Adiel@PACEfunders.org if you are interested in learning more.
Community Foundation Executive Roundtable: Miami
The Council on Foundations is inviting executive staff of community foundations for an exchange of ideas to help strengthen communities across the United States. As a field, we need to come together to discuss the current mischaracterization of donor advised funds, and how we can implement…
Tapestry Grantmaking: Weaving Communities, Populations and Resources Together
Please note this session has limited seating and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
How can funders effectively remove barriers around historically underfunded and under-resourced populations in order to create equitable grantmaking opportunities for communities with the highest…