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We Support: Raising Your Voice for Women with Peace Is Loud
Trials of Spring: Raise Your Voice for Women Read more The post We Support: Raising Your Voice for Women with Peace Is Loud appeared first on The Whitman Institute.
View ArticleAmplifying Unheard Voices with Long Term Funding Structures
TWI is proud to be one of Voice of Witness’s first core funders to provide multi-year support. As Voice of Witness continues to expand, we will continue to support their work and mission, which is...
View ArticleThe “How” Matters to Ford Foundation, Too.
As I read Ford Foundation President Darren Walker’s letter about the foundation’s newest priorities, I was most stirred by the fact that he asked for grantee feedback and is acting on it. I had to take...
View ArticleSupporting A Bolder Form of Leadership
I was reminded yesterday, at LeaderSpring’s A Bolder Form of Leadership luncheon, that non-profit organizations, on average, spend $29 a year on leadership development. Given how vital developing...
View ArticleRepost: Challenging the Orthodoxies of Philanthropy
This piece is a repost, published on the Stanford Social Innovation Review website and written by Gabriel Kasper & Jess Ausinheiler. Are traditional assumptions about how we “do” philanthropy...
View ArticleListening as an opportunity to make shifts in philanthropy
I want to build off of Pia Infante’s recent post lauding Ford Foundation President Darren Walker’s letter explaining significant shifts in both what and how the foundation funds. Pia lifts up that Ford...
View ArticleRepost: How Do You Know Your Stories Are Making a Difference?
This article was written for and published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on June 25th. By Paul VanDeCarr The “How Do We Know” web site uses garden tools as metaphors to provide fresh language for...
View ArticleRestrictions on Unrestricted Funding: Part III
Knowing my own history with TWI, someone recently asked me for advice. As a non-profit board member, she was struggling with how to handle the anger she often feels when dealing with wealthy donors...
View ArticleCelebrating Women Who Collaborate
AAPIP just unveiled 25 Leaders in Action and TWI is pleased to see that two of our extraordinary grantee partners are being honored this year. What strikes me about both Rajasvini Bhansali and Dana...
View ArticleYear 1: Spiritual Survival as a Funder
Year 1 of my co-executive directorship at TWI is a wrap. At the start, a colleague warned me that the field of professionalized philanthropy could inflate my ego and warp my soul, and that I should...
View ArticleThe San Francisco Foundation Makes $34 Million Investment in Oakland
Yesterday The San Francisco Foundation announced a multi-million dollar investment in Oakland that includes several 3 year commitments. We are happy to herald these kinds of big moves, particularly in...
View ArticleRepost: A Mismatch Between Need and Affluence
This article was first published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, we thought it would be a good one to share. American communities with high standards of living often have low charitable giving...
View ArticleWe Make The Road By Walking, Together
Last week, Pia ended a really thoughtful and heartfelt post by asking us how we survive spiritually in our work. What buoys us? She began her reflection by noting that she was marking her first year as...
View ArticleReal Talk on the Real Deal of Unrestricted Funding
While a handful of notable institutional moves toward unrestricted funding have cropped up lately, it is still the case that most funding continues to be program restricted. Here’s a short video where...
View ArticleRepost: New Nexus white paper “Born to Give: A Human Approach to Catalyzing...
First Posted by Nexus on July 22, 2015 on Nexus Blog For the past five years, Nexus has bridged communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship and given birth to a movement that has spread all over...
View ArticlePiercing the Illusion: A Culture of Political Art
[image artwork by Opal Tometi] I’ve been deeply moved by the stories and images from the Cleveland conference that brought together over 1500 leaders spearheading the movement for black lives. Like the...
View ArticleRepost: Funder Q&A: The Power of Listening to Your Grantees
This was originally posted on The Center for Effective Philanthropy website on July 23rd, written by Ethan McCoy. On June 2, Don Matteson, chief program officer at The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower...
View ArticleOn Behalf of Naiveté
Recently I found myself around a table of philanthropic leaders in California, many seasoned funders who’ve funded social change and civil rights for years – if not decades. We were gathered around the...
View ArticleSmall Can Be Big
Based on feedback from their third CEP Grantee Perception Report, Don Howard of the Irvine Foundation announced this week their intention to make some changes. Namely, providing more general operating...
View ArticleWhat IDEX is learning from artists about trust within grantmaking
IDEX’s artists-in-residence program demonstrates the role of the present moment, courage, and improvisation in social change By Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director, and Jennifer Lentfer, Director of...
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