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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis. Our most recent report looked at 2022 disasters. This doesnt come close to the billions of dollars of damage.

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Mapping technology gap data to address and eliminate the digital divide

Tableau

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. At the time, many said that technology skills were a “nice to have” rather than a tremendous door to opportunity.

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Mapping technology gap data to address and eliminate the digital divide

Tableau

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. At the time, many said that technology skills were a “nice to have” rather than a tremendous door to opportunity.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

Measuring effectiveness equitably across grantee portfolios A number of promising practices have emerged for how funder collaboratives can equitably measure impact across their full grantee portfolio: Tracking grantee characteristics across the portfolio. Tracking feedback across the portfolio to improve grantee support.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

This qualitative, exploratory study involved tracking and interviewing 32 Spanish-speaking intergenerational groups in fully bilingual exhibits at four different science centers/museums. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators.

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Guest Post by Katherine Hutt: A Small Nonprofit's Strategy for Pepsi Refresh Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care. These honorary grandparents have been integral in the lives of more than 100 vulnerable and often abused children who have found a safe and loving home at Hope Meadows over the past 15 years.

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Hundreds of U.S. communities are making reparations for slavery and colonization

Fast Company Tech

In 2019, after years of petitioning by members of the Wiyot people, the Eureka City Council returned 200 acres of Tuluwat Island , a 280-acre island in Humboldt Bay where European settlers in 1860 massacred about 200 Wiyot women and children. Backlash Our research also tracks legal challenges to the reparations initiatives we are studying.

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