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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. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible. A third grant provides $7.5

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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Natives Rising wins backing to help Native Americans into tech and startups

TechCrunch

Natives Rising has now received grant funding to support and grow the number of Native American women graduating college with computing degrees, as well as provide a path towards entrepreneurship. We’re proud to partner with Natives Rising to create vibrant, viable pathways in tech.”.

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Lever for Change: How ‘big bet philanthropy’ is transforming the sector 

Candid

A billion dollars, an order of magnitude greater than the foundation’s record-setting $100 million annual grant program , checked all those boxes. We also aim to transform the philanthropic sector so that it is more nimble, courageous, and action-oriented and can disburse grant dollars more quickly. Similarly, when the W.K.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color. It is a time where a lot of organizations are going through an intergenerational transfer of leadership, and a lot has been written about what does that mean? It is like a dream come true.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. They will support schools in closing the educational gaps that have widened by schools shuttering.