Weekly Reads
“Collaborative problem-solving efforts prioritize extensive coordination and relationship-building among researchers, community organizations, policymakers, and others. This creates a shared understanding of complex problems by drawing on a wide array of knowledge, evidence, and expertise. Building and sustaining relationships among these partners can add to what is already known, help identify potential and equitable solutions, improve trust in—and uptake of—those solutions, and increase each partners’ capacity to anticipate and react to a problem’s evolving complexity.” [more]
Angela Bednarek, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Craig Connelly, Perpetual Limited, for Candid’s Philanthropy News Digest
“The good news is that the philanthropic infrastructure of disaster philanthropy has grown more sophisticated in its response to the growing threat of natural disasters. The bad news is that funding for those efforts has remained stagnant.” [more]
Michael Layton, Kevin Peterson, and Katie Dietz, Johnson Center for Philanthropy
“As more grant makers home in on the threat of [extreme] heat, the Barr Foundation’s Puerto cautions against prescriptive, top-down solutions. “Don’t focus on the extreme heat strategy, like planting trees,” she says. Instead, support grassroots organizations that can ask their neighbors what would be most helpful.” [more]
Eden Stiffman for The Chronicle of Philanthropy
“The woke philanthropic waves swept over the shores of racial equity work with tsunami-like strength since 2020, and we are now experiencing a retreat to a safer shoreline. Many foundations calculate the long-term implications and risks of their work within a vitriolic sociopolitical context and instead pursue pluralism and safety at the expense of equity and justice. Yet, the benefit and challenge of philanthropic freedom requires us to thoughtfully interrogate the purpose and meaning of philanthropy—the love of humanity—and step into our sector’s accountability to rebalance capital and resources through reparative investments in service to equity, fairness, and justice.” [more]
Qiana Thomason, Health Forward Foundation, for Center for Effective Philanthropy
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