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About the Series The Ethos of Being Trust-Based, developed by Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, Philanthropy CA, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, is a webinar series dedicated to exploring the fundamental values … Continue reading The Ethos of Being Trust-Based Session 1 | Permission to Pause: You Have To Go Slowly To Go Far

You can’t have impact investing without impact. But what is the impact that we want to see when we make an investment? And how do we know if we are … Continue reading Measuring the Impact

In philanthropy, we sometimes overlook or deprioritize the interpersonal skills required to do this work well. This includes the ability to connect dots, show up in an emotionally intelligent way, … Continue reading The Ethos of Being Trust Based Session 2 | Interpersonal Skills: The Hardest Skill-Building You’ll Ever Do

While elections come and go, the trusting relationships between residents and community groups that lead to voter turnout are critical throughout the year. This type of civic engagement support helps … Continue reading COVID and Community: Outreach and Messaging About the Vaccine

A trust-based culture—one that prioritizes power-sharing, dialogue, transparency, and learning—is essential to cultivating relationships of trust within organizations. Simply put, being a trust-based organization requires there to be trust within … Continue reading The Ethos of Being Trust-Based Session 3 | Building Trust Begins At Home: Practices that Advance (or Weaken) Trust Within Your Organization

The California state budget has a significant impact on nonprofits, grantmakers, and our communities. In early January, Governor Gavin Newsom released his administration’s 2021-22 budget proposal which includes significant investments … Continue reading CA State Budget: Proposals, Process, and Opportunities for Advocacy

March 1st marked the beginning of California’s transition to a Third Party Administrator (TPA), Blue Shield of California, to manage vaccine administration statewide. As this transition occurs, public-private partnerships will … Continue reading Equitable Vaccine Distribution with Blue Shield and the State of California

Trust-based philanthropy is anchored in an understanding of power and privilege, historical and systemic racism and structural oppression, and how these shape people’s realities in profoundly different ways. As grantmakers, … Continue reading The Ethos of Being Trust-Based Session 4 | Confronting and Correcting Historical Power Imbalance

In philanthropy, ‘grassroots’ is often equated with ‘community’ and with ‘small-scale’. Grassroots solutions do come from the community, but they are not often small. And because grassroots solutions come from … Continue reading Grounded Action: Grassroots Movements and Climate Justice | Session 1

In philanthropy, ‘grassroots’ is often equated with ‘community’ and with ‘small-scale’. Grassroots solutions do come from the community, but they are not often small. And because grassroots solutions come from … Continue reading Grounded Action: Grassroots Movements and Climate Justice | Session 2

Join Nonprofit Finance Fund and Philanthropy California to advance full cost practices for the nonprofit sector by participating in a remote learning series in April. This workshop series invites you to take what you’ve … Continue reading Full Cost Workshop

Current conditions continue to place enormous demands on us. Still, we have cause for hope: bold new leadership in many places, budgetary step stones toward a just recovery, and a … Continue reading Friday Morning Refresh