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Public Investment in Early Childhood Education Program Event Materials
December, 2022
Through this program, funders received: An update on the first year of the Missouri Office of Childhood and its Director, Dr. Pam Thomas via virtual webinar recording. An update on the establishment of the Gateway Early Childhood Alliance and its Director, Katie Rahn. A deeper understanding of existing public funds to support early childhood providers, barriers to accessing those funds, and the role philanthropy can play in closing gaps. An opportunity to share their own collaborative or individual funding efforts in the early child space.
Reframing Childhood Obesity: Cultural Insights on Nutrition, Weight, and Food Systems
October, 2022
Vanderbilt University Cultural Context of Health & Wellbeing Initiative, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released a new report that focuses on three key areas in which insights and examples from abroad can improve USA health policy around childhood obesity. The report's goal is to create a mutual understanding that: food is more than nutrition, health is more than weight, and diet is more than individual choice. The report presents the most effective and sustainable efforts to improve child nutrition while taking into account cultural contexts and colonial legacies in...
Avoiding the Glass Cliff
October, 2022
The Building Movement Project's report identifies trends seen and experienced among nonprofit Executive Directors and Chief Executives of color, particularly when following an outgoing white leader. This report offers insight and advice to boards about how to help avoid these pitfalls, both leading up to a transition and after a new leader is hired.
Racial Equity In Lean Foundations: Closing the Gap Between Intention and Impact
September, 2022
This report assesses the philanthropic landscape, levels of giving over the past five years, and donor behavior to provide insights, context, and benchmarks. The report contains analytics and observations on the charitable gift annuity (CGA) and charitable remainder trust (CRT) activity during the calendar year 2021 for 101 nonprofit organizations and the BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund.
Building the Nonprofit Ecosystem
September, 2022
In this report, Barry Rosenberg details the issues, challenges, threats, and opportunities facing nonprofits today. He notes the nonprofit industry faces challenges on many fronts and, therefore, should engage in policy work or collective action to address the needs, strength and vitatlity of the sector. The report concludes with an illustrative list of organizations leading in sector-strengthening efforts.
Philanthropic Landscape Report, 11th Edition
September, 2022
This report features essential philanthropic research from all major sources in the industry by assessing key areas that nonprofit leaders and fundraisers may want to monitor as part of planning and strategy. Insight is offered on gift planning, high net worth giving, and emerging digital fundraising trends that are becoming more prominent in the philanthropic ecosystem.
Philanthropy Always Sounds Like Someone Else: A Portrait of High Net Worth Donors of Color
August, 2022
This report highlights the giving practices of high net worth (HNW) donors of color. Until recently, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) with HNW and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) have been an apparitional presence across philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Yet, emerging research shows that there are at least 1.3 million HNW households of color in the United States with net liquid assets of one million dollars or more. The report research demonstrates that HNW donors of color have great potential to move millions of dollars and inspire other hidden figures in philanthropy.
2022 Annual Charitable Gift Report
August, 2022
This report assesses the philanthropic landscape, levels of giving over the past five years, and donor behavior to provide insights, context, and benchmarks. The report contains analytics and observations on the charitable gift annuity (CGA) and charitable remainder trust (CRT) activity during the calendar year 2021 for 101 nonprofit organizations and the BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund.
New Survey Report: Global Trends and Strategic Time Horizons in Philanthropy 2022
August, 2022
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, with support from The University of Chicago, published its second biennial report, which is the only global survey of philanthropy that includes views not only on reasons for giving, but on causes, geographic flows of funding, giving timeframes, decision making, and next-generation involvement. The study included responses from 150 philanthropies from 30 countries. The report expands on RPA’s previous research in 2019 and 2020 to understand the factors that affect a philanthropy’s consideration in choosing the length of time for which it will remain active.

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