Join us for the October meeting of our new Peer Learning Circle dedicated specifically for community foundations who are working on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or are open to learning more about how the SDGs can fit within their work.

Meeting Topic: 17 Rooms Initiative

Guest Speakers: Jacob Taylor, Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development 

Connect with community foundation peers to learn about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The group meets monthly by Zoom to discuss SDG hot topics including education, local implementation, community alignment and communication, professional development, data, grantmaking, and more. This community is primarily focused on expanding the SDGs in the United States through community foundation action, but all nationalities are welcome.

By registering for this event, you agree to share some identifying information with the Central Florida Foundation, the partner for this event. 

Philanthropy has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years in terms of the sources of wealth underlying charitable gifts, the allocation of resources, and its decision-making processes. More than ever, those engaged in philanthropy need an ethical orientation to inform their work.

Combining expertise from the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy’s Grantmaking School and the Council on Foundations, this session will:

• Encourage you to reflect on how the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion can inform ethical decision-making
• Enable you to understand to whom and to what you are accountable in your work

• Provide you with practical tools and step-by-step guidance in navigating ethical problems

Instructors

Michael D. Layton, Ph.D.
W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

Ben McDearmon
Staff Counsel
Council on Foundations

Who should attend this course?

This course is intended for foundation staff, donors, and others engaged in grantmaking. If you do not fit this profile but are interested in attending, please email Emily.Brenner@gvsu.edu before registering.

This session is presented by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, with special participation by the Council on Foundations.

Join peers from across the country in a discussion focused on:

• Why did your foundation choose to launch a podcast? 
• What are some tactics a foundation can use to grow its podcast audience?
• How does your team select podcast interviewees and how often do you release new episodes?
• What podcast formats/platforms do you utilize?

Peer Discussion Leads

Tim Coons

Communications
Weld Community Foundation

Taylor Mace

Senior Marketing & Communications Specialist
Maine Community Foundation

Philanthropy Exchange is a peer-to-peer platform that connects Council members through shared interests, topics or resources. On the Exchange members can:

• Connect with their peers around the globe to discuss topics of shared interest
• Search an online library of best practices and template documents
• Seek and give candid advice in a private community of their peers
• Find members funding similar issues or performing similar roles in their foundation
• Share resources to develop stronger relationships that advance their work

Learn more about the Exchange by contacting, Tucker Rush.

In this webinar, the Council’s Legal Resources team took an in-depth look at the self-dealing rules applicable to private foundations under section 4941 of the Internal Revenue Code. This webinar provided an analysis of the relevant rules and regulations governing transactions between private foundations and disqualified persons, including situations involving payment of compensation and expense reimbursement to disqualified persons, sharing employees between foundations and related companies, grants with the potential to benefit disqualified persons, and many more.

Featuring the Council on Foundations Legal Team:

The Council on Foundations partnered with the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP) to discuss why and how corporate philanthropy is acting to prevent the funding of hate and extremism. Watch the recording to learn more about this issue, why it is urgent, and hear from corporations who are taking action to make a difference.

Speakers

Lacey Gaitan
Senior Director, Content & Learning
ACCP

David Kass
Vice President, Government Affairs and Legal Resources
Council on Foundations

Dr. Shanell McGoy
Senior Director, Public Affairs, Corporate Giving
Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Peter Stern
Director, Content Policy Stakeholder Engagement
Meta

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Join us for the launch of our new Values-Aligned Philanthropy Peer Learning Circle. This engagement opportunity is designed to connect community foundation staff across the country who are working to explore, design, implement, or refine their organizational values-aligned grantmaking or anti-hate funding policies. Chaired by May Leong, Senior Institutional Partnerships Officer at the East Bay Community Foundation, and Winter Kinne, Vice President of Development at the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, this Peer Learning Circle will meet regularly on a schedule decided by the group. 

Registration is open to community foundation staff only.

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) enacted in March 2021 provided a historic commitment of federal funds to address critical needs of communities responding to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Of the larger federal investment, $350 billion is designated for state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments through the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund. Without input from philanthropy and charitable organizations, state legislatures and local governments may fail to recognize the consequential opportunity to invest these funds in addressing longstanding challenges in local communities, laid bare by the pandemic.

In this webinar, we discussed how philanthropy can be proactive NOW in encouraging local governments to focus on support for essential service providers. The timing is opportune in many communities – local officials need the help! The conversation highlights examples of how the American Rescue Plan Act can expand resources to advance equity and transformative systemic change.

Resources

• Strengthening State and Local Economies in Partnership with Nonprofits
• Roles for Philanthropy

Speakers

David Kass
Vice President, Government Affairs & Legal Resources
Council on Foundations

David Thompson
Vice President of Public Policy
National Council of Nonprofits

Tiffany Carter
Policy Counsel
National Council of Nonprofits

Elysa Gordon
Vice President of Community Impact
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Marian Clowes
Associate Director for Community Leadership
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation & Regional Affiliates

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Join us for the August meeting of our new Peer Learning Circle dedicated specifically for community foundations who are working on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or are open to learning more about how the SDGs can fit within their work.

Meeting Topic: Climate Change Communication

Guest Speakers: Joshua Low, Partnerships Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) - Joshua leads YPCCC’s strategy for engaging and supporting the climate and clean energy advocacy, media, and education communities. 

Connect with community foundation peers to learn about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The group meets monthly by Zoom to discuss SDG hot topics including education, local implementation, community alignment and communication, professional development, data, grantmaking, and more. This community is primarily focused on expanding the SDGs in the United States through community foundation action, but all nationalities are welcome.

By registering for this event, you agree to share some identifying information with the Central Florida Foundation, the partner for this event. 

In this webinar, we learned how your foundation can complement FEMA's disaster recovery efforts in your community. To recover successfully from major natural disasters, coordination of public, private, and philanthropic resources is important to avoid duplication of effort and to deepen the array of supports available to communities. Disaster funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are declared quickly but are not necessarily the fastest available dollars for assistance to individuals for lifeline support. In this session, FEMA Philanthropic Advisors and Coordinating Officers joined three community foundations to share how they are currently working together on long-term recovery plans in communities impacted by recent wildfires in the West and tornado and flood events in Kentucky and Tennessee. Learn how and when FEMA dollars flow after disaster declarations are issued and what government funding programs are available to communities for long-term planning and future mitigation.  

Speakers

Zak Usher
Acting Deputy Director, Individual Assistance Division
FEMA

Myra M. Shird, Ph.D.
Federal Coordinating Officer, Region IV (Atlanta)
FEMA

Denise Morgan Gilliam
Philanthropic Advisor, Interagency Coordination Division, Recovery Directorate
FEMA

Chris Dockins, PhD
COO
Community Foundation of West Kentucky

Amy Fair
Vice President of Donor Services
Community Foundation of Middle Tennesee

Jovanni Tricerri
Vice President of Programs
North Valley Community Foundation