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Please note, we will take a break from publishing Washington Snapshot while Congress is on recess from April 15-26, as well as during the week of the Leading Together 2019 Conference. Our next edition is scheduled for May 9. However, if any important executive or regulatory developments occur, we…
Manuela Contreras is the former Manager, Leadership with the Programs team.
When I meet with leaders of community foundations, bringing back the Council’s former Community Foundation’s Fall Conference tops the list of requests. I share in your desire for the Council to provide a better space for community foundation leaders to network and engage around issues…
American democracy faces challenges that raise difficult questions for philanthropy. Have funders done everything possible to shore up democratic values and aspirations, or pursued their own ideas of the public good and turned a blind eye to these challenges? To what extent can philanthropy’s…
For community foundation CEOs, managers, or board members/trustees with fiscal responsibilities and those new to finance and fiscal administration, this course provided an understanding of the complicated aspects unique to community foundation finances. The interactive two-day course curriculum was…
What: Learning Lab, Key Tools to Weave a Richer Civic Fabric
When: Monday, September 23, 2013 (4:45pm-5:15pm)
Where: Elizabeth Foyer, Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
It is crucial to have a broad base of civically engaged citizens who have positive relationships with public agencies…
David J. Byrd is the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy Development, at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to his current position, he served as a Senior Advisor for HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and…
Jennifer Lentfer is the Director of Communications at Thousand Currents and is the creator of the blog, how-matters.org. Her 2017 book, Smart Risks: How small grants are helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, features the growing community of grantmakers that find and fund…
Lindley is dedicated to supporting grassroots leaders advancing just and regenerative solutions to climate change. She coordinates the CLIMA Fund, mobilizing funders in support of Indigenous, women, and youth-led climate justice movements globally. She is also the Co-Founder of Blue Heart, an…