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Reimagining Power Dynamics From Within: How Foundations Can Support Child and Youth Participation
January 23, 2020The senior program manager and a program officer in the Open Society Foundations' Youth Exchange program share best practices with respect to engaging children and young people in donor spaces and conversations and giving them the space to tell us how best to support their movements....
Connections
January 26, 2020
A report from the Philanthropic Initiative on Racial Equity offers practical guidance for funders working to address social and environmental issues through a racial justice lens. A follow-up report to Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens, which was published in 2007 in partnership with GrantCraft, Grantmaking With a Racial Justice Lens: A...
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Bill Cummings, Co-Founder and President, Cummings Foundation
October 25, 2019
PND spoke with Cummings about his journey from entrepreneur to philanthropist, the evolution of the foundation's $100k for 100 program, and the impact of the Giving Pledge on his thinking about and approach to philanthropy....
Newsmakers
June 5, 2019
PND spoke with Zuckerman about changes in the way TCF approaches its work, the organization's efforts to advance a progressive policy agenda, and the meaning of the 2018 midterm elections....
NPO Spotlight
Leeway Foundation
January 21, 2020
Established in 1993 with a gift from Linda Lee Alter "to promote the welfare of women and to benefit the arts" in the Philadelphia area, the Leeway Foundation today is committed to funding women, trans, and gender-nonconforming artists and cultural producers working at the intersection of art, culture, and social change....
On the Web
January 15, 2020
Through its Trusts initiative, Groundwork USA explores the relationship between historical race-based housing segregation and the current and predicted impacts of climate change....
Off the Shelf
The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
July 18, 2019
As Kumar, co-founder of Devex, sees it, the international development sector is undergoing three fundamental changes: an opening up to diverse participants, a shift from a wholesale to a retail model of aid, and a growing focus on results-oriented, evidence-based strategies....
