Weekly Reads
“Create the conditions for better nonprofit job quality for the entire grantee organization. ... A funder’s multi-year commitment to a nonprofit can give them the confidence to make investments in their own staff when they know the resources will be there for more than one or two years. The Walter & Elise Haas Fund is not alone in seeing our role as funding nonprofits to win on their own terms, including our shift from one-year to seven-year grant terms. We also place a high priority on supporting the conditions for high quality, empowering nonprofit work.” [more]
Jamie Allison, Walter & Elise Haas Foundation, for the Center for Effective Philanthropy
“Candid’s newly released 2024 Nonprofit Compensation Report, the most comprehensive study on executive compensation in the social sector… provides information to help nonprofits benchmark compensation to ensure competitive salaries for their employees. ... Highlights from [this edition] include insights into the gender pay gap at organizations of different budget sizes, information on median executive compensation of non-CEO executive positions, and compensation based on program area.” [more]
Parshya Kavoosi, Candid
“Each year we bring together six different trans, nonbinary leaders from different geographic locations who also hold different experiences and different identities, and we bring them together to review all the applications that we receive. ... So, by having a grantmaking panel of folks who know this work, live this work, breathe this work at the table to decide who receives funding is part of our way of trying to bring power back to our people.” [more]
Gabriel Foster, Trans Justice Funding Project, for Disability and Philanthropy Forum
“For foundations, there is a chance to chart a different path forward—you have the chance to redress histories of discrimination, denial of housing, segregation, and unequal treat[ment] (to name a few) which have helped build your wealth. ... [If] we are committed as a city to achieving racial equity—we too must be focused on the issue of reparation.” [more]
Corey Shaw, Empower DC, for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
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