Three Years Later, Funding Social Movements Matters More Than Ever
Join us for a two-part virtual, interactive sessions to explore social movements, the needs of movement leaders, and promising practices from funders.
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Join us for a two-part virtual, interactive sessions to explore social movements, the needs of movement leaders, and promising practices from funders.
Against a backdrop of the “shrinking space” for civil society, philanthropy associations and networks play an increasingly important role in helping their members address societal issues that are complex and publicly and politically sensitive. This session will explore current challenges and lessons by reflecting on experience, based on case studies in Europe and the United States related to philanthropy's role in tackling issues arising from terrorism and migration/immigration.
Resources from a pre-conference session at the 2019 Forum Annual Conference that was moderated by The Giving Practice and featured Lucy Bernholz of Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society who discussed thinking about the future of their work and how leadership can or should change. A few PSO leaders shared challenges that they faced and solutions that discovered to combat that challenge, do deep-dives into understanding and discussing how PSOs can be effective partners to maximize impact.
Sample materials and other resources on how philanthropy-serving organizations are offering programming to their membership around these issues.
Additional speaker suggestions and event descriptions from a survey of the membership are available here
This tool for unstaffed foundations includes an accountability self-assessment and a legal checklist. It is divided into nine topic sections, each of which is divided into three levels, which can help foundations tailor the tool to meet their specific interests and needs. Also included are an Excel spreadsheet to help tabulate responses, an extensive accountability resource list, and a glossary of key words and concepts used in the tool.
This webinar will examine the importance of feedback, how it can strengthen effective partnerships between grantmakers and their constituents, and how grantmakers and consultants to them can help make listening and responding to feedback the new norm.