With flames ablaze and billowing smoke at both ends of the state, it seems that wildfires have become the new normal in California. In response, regional grantmaking associations have emerged as sources of fire-related relief information and centr
Numbers don’t lie—unless they are left out of an equation to begin with. When numbers are missing from a calculation, a deceptive void appears like a black hole that swallows otherwise important realities.
The Portrait of Los Angeles County is the result of a collaboration of 15 funders, several County departments, nonprofit organizations, and Measure of America, facilitated by SCG.
Green Hasson & Janks recently released their 2017 whitepaper on the nonprofit sector, The Give and The Get: The F
UCLA's Dr. Nancy Wayne recently interviewed SCG President and CEO Chris Essel for her "Women in Leadership" Blog Series.
Social Innovation Is The Hallmark of the 20th Annual Unveiling
Philanthropy is dead. Long live philanthropy.
What keeps me up at night? I have nightmares about cannibals. It’s not a phobia. It’s a perfectly reasonable and realistic fear in the nonprofit sector. Let me explain.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2017
On December 8th, SCLN will celebrate dynamic leaders who drive change at the 2016 Visionaries Awards. We are pleased to honor Chris Essel, president of Southern California Grantmakers (SCG), as the Southern California Leader of the Year.
If you ask nonprofit executives the one thing about which they feel certain during 2016 the answer surely would be uncertainty. Here’s the list: A presidential election that probably will resemble Ali v.
The work of infrastructure organizations often feels like a “play within a play within a play” — we’re supporting our members’ work in a particular region or on a particular issue while simultaneously grappling with it ourselves.
General operating support has nudged up only slightly in the past decade, according to a Foundation Center analysis of data from 2013, the latest year available. Yet advocates are cautiously optimistic that these new efforts will accelerate and encourage others to tackle the question: Just how much does it cost to do good?
Groups like GuideStar and the Council on Foundations say organizations like theirs need more resources to help charities and foundations advance.
May 6, 2016 / PRZen / LOS ANGELES -- The leading candidates competing for the fifth district seat of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will debate their positions on children's issues on May 10 at 7:00 p.m. at Pasadena City College.
Public-private partnerships are the philanthropy of the future, and there’s a big one starting up in Los Angeles right now.
After a four-month search involving 26 applicants, Los Angeles County and Southern California Grantmakers have named a leader to forge deeper partnerships between the county and philanthropic institutions in a novel bid to improve the child welfar
For Immediate Release: March 31, 2016
With savvy leader Christine Essel, Southern California Grantmakers is helping the philanthropic cake rise in new ways in one of the nation’s wealthiest regions.
In a recent episode of KCRW's Press Play, Madeleine Brand asks, are Angelenos really engaged—like New Yorkers and Chicagoans—in trying to make our city a better place to live?