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Jenny Hodgson has been the Executive Director of the Johannesburg-based Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) since 2006, overseeing its emergence as the leading global voice on community philanthropy as a core strategy for people-led development and shifting power closer to the ground.…
Christina Gonzalez is the Council on Foundations' former Legal Director, National Standards, and Staff Counsel.
The Council on Foundations' 2016 Annual Conference features a pre-conference session in Baltimore during which participants will visit the Center for Urban Families.
This is reprinted from an original post on Washington Monthly.
To view the “Successes of Philanthropy…
In the early 1990s, I spent a year living and working in Uganda. One day I was with some friends driving back from a trip to one of the beautiful game parks there. It was late afternoon and not long before darkness would set in. We decided to pitch our tents by the side of the long and sparsely…
Emmanuel de Merode, the Director of the Virunga National Park since 2008. Credit: ©Brent Stirton/Getty Images
Located in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Virunga National Park is Africa’s oldest national park. It is a critical habitat for many species, including the…
Myanmar’s Tech Community Codes as Part of the MaePaySoh Hack Challenge -- Photo by Andrew Thornley
On November 8, 2015, millions in Myanmar went to the polls to cast their votes – many for the first or second time in their lives – for members of the Union Parliament as…
Stephanie joined The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation team in 2012. She received her MA from the University of Georgia and BA from West Virginia University. Prior to her work at the Foundation, Stephanie was the director of a basic needs assistance agency and before transitioning to the social…
To improve livability in downtown pittsburgh, the Colcom Foundation funded 400 planters.
Notions of “livability” are central to the Future of Community; Identity, Purpose, Place. To build a place worth caring about is to bring out the best in a community. On a good day,…
An increasing percentage of jobs in the United States require a college degree, certification, or credential beyond high school.
It hasn’t always been this way. In the past, good manufacturing jobs didn’t require more than a high school degree. These jobs provided middle class…
The city of Charleston, W.Va., is embarking on a new beginning as it molds a revolutionary program for young professionals: Early Dynamic Guided Engagement (EDGE). The three-year program offers recent college graduates the opportunity to live in the heart of downtown Charleston for a subsidized…