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COVID-19 has caused organizations and individuals to make significant and unexpected adjustments in their personal and professional lives. While this new reality involves the reduction of in-person interactions with others, and thus the likelihood for certain biases playing out, other mechanisms for the expression of implicit bias have arisen. Dr. Marks’ engaging and interactive workshop … Continue reading Addressing Implicit Bias in the Age of COVID-19

As we rebuild our economy in the wake of COVID-19, we are left with an opportunity to make inclusive growth a new cornerstone of American economic progress. Learn about San Diego Workforce Partnership’s innovative Income Sharing Agreements and hear from HCAP, a middle-market private equity impact fund, that has been trailblazing investment approaches to create … Continue reading Impact Investing: Investing to Create Equitable Jobs

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 and dispositions central to a trust-based approach. Join us as we examine the aspects of trust-building essential for a strong and healthy ecosystem at all … 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 successful? Just like in grant making, impact investing requires a theory of change and a thoughtful framework for measurement. Join us on December 15th to … 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, listen actively and empathically, and know when to get out of the way. It also requires a clear understanding of power, and how power imbalances … 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 people access City and County processes; understand their children’s educational rights; receive information about health and wellness; and more. Today, those relationships offer the opportunity … 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 your organization—among staff, between staff and board, and between the board and the CEO. When this trust is broken, or if it is never built … 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 in pandemic relief and equitable recovery for small businesses, nonprofits, and vulnerable populations. The state legislature now starts its budget process to review the Governor’s … 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 become more crucial than ever. Join us to hear from Blue Shield directly about their work, and to hear from state leaders on how they … 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, we have a responsibility to confront the reality that philanthropy originated from and has often contributed to systemic inequities, both in the ways wealth is … 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 the people most impacted by the problem they seek to solve, they can be more effective and holistic in the problems they address. As communities … Continue reading Grounded Action: Grassroots Movements and Climate Justice | Session 1