Toolkit for Affinity Funder Groups Working on Public Policy
How can funders work together to have an impact on public policy?
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How can funders work together to have an impact on public policy?
Recap of In Focus: Health Care – Regional Community Clinics Update (August 5, 2015)
Meet Helvetika Bold, a superhero who champions for social justice using powerful words to break the grip of villains like Mindset and his weapon the dominant narrative. She is the public face of Vision, Values and Voice, a comic-book style communications toolkit from the Opportunity Agenda designed to help social justice advocates win victories in the world of 21st-century movements and media.
There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States with an estimated 20 million board members at the helm. The sheer number of people who devote their lives, their money, and their time to an important mission is truly inspiring.
The fiscal cliff debate was a clear example of the country's deep political divides on a range of civic and budgetary issues. While it highlighted divisions within the philanthropic sector over the charitable deduction, the ultimate passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (H.R. 8) demonstrates there is potential to find common ground.
Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency explores how transparency can strengthen credibility, improve grantee relationships, facilitate greater collaboration, increase public trust, reduce duplication of effort, and build communities of shared learning. Content is organized into five topical chapters so that you can focus on exploring one approach to transparency at a time.
A growing number of foundations are investing in efforts to assess and address environmental conditions in local communities. This grantmaking is grounded in evidence linking common hazards to health problems, such as research on air pollution and asthma, lead paint and neurodevelopmental deficits, contaminated water and cancers, and pesticides and Parkinson’s. Philanthropy’s investments are making neighborhoods healthier places to live, testing approaches along the way that may help future grantmaking.