271 Results for “youth philanthropy”

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Are you or your org guilty of Trickle-Down Community Engagement?
October 4, 2019 | Vu Le
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Vu Le’s Nonprofit AF website and appears as per their crossposting guidelines here. In Seattle, if you’re a person of color and you walk down a dark alley late at night and you feel like you’re being followed, it’s probably someone trying to do some community engagement: “Psst…hey buddy—Go Hawks!—you want to attend Read More
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Funder Spotlight: Hill-Snowdon Foundation
August 29, 2019 | The Whitman Institute
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by the Whitman Institute (TWI), featuring foundations that practice trust-based philanthropy, that acknowledge the power dynamics and realities facing nonprofits, and that invite more authentic relationships and communication with grantees. This piece originally appeared on the Whitman Institute’s website and appears with permission. The Hill-Snowdon Foundation is a DC-based foundation committed to supporting Read More
Blog | Network News

September 2019: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network
August 26, 2019 | National Center for Family Philanthropy
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their cutting edge work. This month features updates from the Allen H. & Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Zeist Foundation, and the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation. Are you a current Friend or Read More
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Allow Good Curriculum
August 20, 2019 | Allow Good
Allow Good is a Chicagoland nonprofit that has been running youth programming for five years. Their mission is empower all youth through the tools of philanthropy to take meaningful action in their world. Their semester-long program takes high school youth through lessons in civic engagement, community histories, and the philanthropic grantmaking process. Students explore and research local community challenges, narrowing Read More

Allow Good
August 20, 2019
Allow Good is a Chicagoland nonprofit that has been running youth programming for five years. Their mission is empower all youth through the tools of philanthropy to take meaningful action in their world. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Building the Family in Family Foundations Through Mentorship
June 25, 2019 | Julien Goulet
As Mark Twain alludes to and those who have raised kids know—at a certain age, kids will only listen to a trusted confidant such as a teacher, a scout leader, a coach… or a mentor! Mentorship has been proven to have positive long-term benefits such as increased academic performance, college attendance, and reduced drug and alcohol use. It also has been shown to increase confidence and help unleash a young person’s potential. Read More
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Second Generation: The Daughters of an Early Microsoft Employee Explain Family Giving
June 14, 2019 | Inside Philanthropy
This is a philanthropic story, but it is also an immigrant story. Rao and Satya Remala grew up in India; Remala was raised in a small village. But through education, he empowered himself. “Our parents are very giving people. They recognize how they got to where they are, and are very humbled by that experience,” Srilakshmi explains. Read More

Derek Longbrake
May 29, 2019
Derek Longbrake currently works in fundraising as the Donor Relationship Manager at Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless in Maryland. Over the last six years his areas of responsibilities have included Major Gifts, Corporate Sponsorship, Planned Giving, and Annual Giving. Previous to that Derek was the pastor of a small congregation in Western Pennsylvania. As an ordained minister in the Read More

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