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Knowledge Center | Passages Issue Briefs

Things We Wish Our Founders Had Told Us: Interpreting Donor Legacy
November 29, 2016 | Susan Packard Orr
This special NCFP Distinguished Fellow Essay by Susan Packard Orr explores the questions that Susan and her fellow trustees wished they had asked of the founders when they were still alive. From the introduction: This year marks the 20th anniversary of our father’s death. Our mother has been gone almost 30 years. During this time, we have worked to build Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Strategic, Responsive, or Both?
October 14, 2016 | Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Responsive grantmaking is being open to receiving proposals and ideas from any nonprofit, and allowing the nonprofits to drive the agenda. Requests are initiated by the nonprofit, rather than by a funder seeking them out. This doesn’t mean that a foundation doesn’t have core areas of focus, but that within those areas is wishes to be responsive to the needs nonprofits feel most keenly. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Signed the Divest Invest Pledge: Here’s Why
October 10, 2016 | Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
Recognizing the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-wealth people and communities of color in the United States and around the globe, we signed the Divest Invest pledge, a global movement calling for investors "to divest from the fossil fuel industries deepening the climate crisis and invest instead in climate solutions." Read More

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