October 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing accomplishments, new approaches or giving areas, innovative ideas, and staff and board transitions, and more.
We encourage our members and parters to email us with news that you would like to be shared.
Crankstart Launches Streets to Stability
Crankstart released a study that seeks to revolutionize how we address homelessness. The research helps to untangle the maze of public contracting and understand how and when people enter and exit homelessness. It includes 12 recommendations for San Francisco city leaders to implement to make homelessness rare, brief, and a one-time event in San Francisco.
New Chicago Beyond Partnership with State Correctional Institutions
Chicago Beyond announces a partnership with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry; the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; and the Vermont Department of Corrections to introduce Holistic Safety measures across their state facilities. Chicago Beyond is also now making the second edition of its Holistic Safety best practices guide, Do I Have the Right to Feel Safe?, available to policymakers and executive leadership at all correctional systems across the country.
The Daily Yonder Interviews Roundhouse Foundation’s Erin Borla
In a Q&A, Erin Borla outlines why rural-specific philanthropy matters. “We’re a part of the community, and we show up for community as best we can. But we have to be accountable, and we hold ourselves to a pretty high standard,” she says.
Walton Family Foundation Releases New Data About Gen Z
The Walton Family Foundation and Gallup have partnered with clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damou to explore information about Gen Z and how parents can better support this generation.
Staff Changes at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced two promotions and a new hire.
Vivian Long on Giving Done Right Podcast
Long Family Foundation Executive Director Vivian Long joins the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Giving Done Right Podcast to talk about her family’s commitment to building relationships with grantees and their intergenerational approach to giving.