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How Do We Know Advocacy Grants Are Working?
April 14, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Session Designer: Astrid Hendricks, The California Endowment
Speaker(s): Tanya Beer, The Colorado Trust;
Astrid Hendricks, The California Endowment;
Thomas Kelley, The Annie E. Casey Foundation;
Jackie Williams Kaye, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Shared resources:Advocacy and public policy grants are "upstream investments" that have the potential to leverage broader systematic change. But uncertainty about how to evaluate advocacy grants can be a barrier to participation in advocacy grantmaking. The last several years have seen a tremendous growth in the advocacy evaluation field -- where few resources and little expertise existed before, multiple tools and a growing base of experience now exist. In this session, a panel of practitioners will share what they have learned in designing advocacy work evaluations that are useful, manageable and resource efficient. Facilitated small group discussions will give attendees the opportunity to drill into key evaluation questions relevant to their own work.
How Movements Work and How to Support Them
April 13, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Session Designer: Linda Wood, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Speaker(s): Matt Foreman, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund;
Taryn Higashi, Unbound Philanthropy;
Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California
"Social movements are a hidden underpinning of the American story," says Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California scholar and expert on social movements. Growing philanthropic interest and recent openness to investing in social movements, community organizing and policy change will require new relationships and new grantmaker approaches. This session will explore what makes a successful social movement, how to align with other funders on common goals, the capacities that need to be built, and the funding opportunities that exist. From their own experience as movement funders, panelists will share the specific roles funders can play and co-investment strategies that have been used for greater impact.
How Social Media Enables Power Shifts
April 12, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Session Designer: Berit Ashla, The Tides Foundation
Speaker(s): Berit Ashla, Tides Foundation;
Garlin Gilchrist II, Center for Community Change;
Vivien Luk, The Forbes Funds;
Joseph Mouzon, Tides Advocacy Fund
Shared resources:In these tight economic times, nonprofit organizations and grantmakers need effective ways to engage and collaborate. Social media is changing how grantmakers and grantees reach out, inspire and obtain new supporters. Hear from talented leaders who are harnessing the power of social networks to increase support for nonprofits and make real change in communities traditionally marginalized or left out of key policy decision making. In a fast-paced conversation, panelists will describe their work in leveraging technology for effective relationship-building with nonprofit stakeholders and explore what grantmakers can do to help ease their grantees into this new reality.
Institutionalizing Diversity: Effective Organizational Diversity Policies and Practices within Philanthropy
April 13, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Session Designer: Annie Nyborg, Social Policy Research Associates
Speaker(s): Yolanda Alindor, San Francisco Foundation;
Hanh Cao Yu, Social Policy Research Associates;
Victor De Luca, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Inc.;
Beth Smith, The Hyams Foundation;
Dianne Yamashiro-Omi, The California Endowment
Shared resources:Foundations are incorporating diversity into their organizational policies and practices in various ways. This session will introduce participants to the Foundation Diversity Policies and Practices Toolkit, and representatives from foundations featured in the toolkit will discuss how and why they work to institutionalize diversity within their organizations. Attendees will discuss the challenges and opportunities foundations face in "walking the talk" of diversity policies and practices.
Investment Strategies for Maximum Impact
April 14, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Session Designer: Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint Research and Design, Inc.
Speaker(s): Bart Houlahan, B Corporation;
Jackie Khor, Imprint Capital Advisors
Shared resources:With the advent of new players and new structural models, the ways in which grantmakers can advance social initiatives are growing dramatically. Direct support of political advocacy, investing in social media ventures, making use of L3Cs and making investments that yield both social and financial returns are just a few of the options. Join the pioneers of these strategies for a session that explores new funding options with the goal of broadening participant "toolkits" for investing in the causes they care about.
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Green Efforts: Learn how GEO is reducing the environmental impact of its national conference.
Philanthropy’s Tool Shed: Offers participants the chance to explore a broad range of new tools available for grantmakers, in a direct, hands-on way. Through live demonstrations provided by leaders in the field, experience firsthand how a particular tool works. The Tool Shed will be held during Connection Space times on the conference program. + more
Ambassador Program: Broaden your network and make the most of your conference experience.
Site Visits: Learn about the mission, strategies,challenges and accomplishments of these organizations and how they operate within Pittsburgh’s innovative philanthropic community.
