This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s ironic, and it’s unfortunate: At many nonprofits, boards are excluded from the organization’s efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This can happen for several reasons. The DEI training…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2017, Open Society Foundations launched a global Community Youth Fellowship Program — a collaborative grantmaking initiative focused on engaging young people as individual grantees through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. The program…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over 20 years ago, the Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation launched its Girls’ Initiative to amplify support for women and girls. More recently, the foundation’s board, historically mostly women, expanded its equity and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy involves giving back to society. Corporate philanthropy is when companies donate resources or time to non-profit organizations. For a company to do this, it is crucial to involve different…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What do the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainable grant-making practices have in common? Both represent a long-term commitment to supporting the people, places, and communities that we…
We are flipping the script for this episode of Conversations with Chanda. Instead of hosting, Chanda answers questions from the Minneapolis Foundation’s Senior Director of Impact and Collective Giving, Patrice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Retired financier Oscar Tang, along with his wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang, are giving the Metropolitan Museum of Art US$125 million. Their gift, announced in November 2021, will help pay for a…
Repa Mekha has more than 30 years of experience in community building and systems change work. Currently, he is the President & CEO of Nexus Community Partners. In this episode, Chanda…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diverse representative leadership in the United States is taking on deeper meaning in 2022 – especially for the nation’s 22.9 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who call the country home. Anti-Asian…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how many of us engage with other people in both social and professional settings. While some of us have…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from Pivotal Ventures and McKinsey & Company highlights the previous successes and failures of tech companies attempting to diversify their workforce, and how philanthropy and CSR…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This past spring, we were in Chinatown San Francisco visiting low-income Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth who live in 150 square foot tenements with their families, sharing bathrooms and…