Critical Issue Forum Vol. 2

Support the Right People to Do the Right Things

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DONATE Support the Right People to Do the Right Things Last summer, sponsors of California Assembly Bill 624 dropped legislation that had been introduced in 2007 and passed by the Assembly in January 2008. If it had been enacted, AB624 would have required funders to report on the race of their grant recipients’ leaders. Many … Read more

Critical Issues Forum II: What About Capacity Building for the Capacity Builders? (Foundations & Intermediaries)

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DONATE Critical Issues Forum II: What About Capacity Building for the Capacity Builders? (Foundations & Intermediaries) This past June, three California foundations—the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—unveiled a program of $5.75 million in capacity-building grants to nine intermediary organizations that would provide TA and … Read more

Putting the AB 624 Agreement into Practice and Policy

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DONATE Putting the AB 624 Agreement into Practice and Policy A backroom deal in mid-2008 on assistance to minority-serving nonprofits in California followed by an end-of-the-year release of a plan of foundation assistance ostensibly to promote more grant support for racially diverse communities has closed a Pandora’s box that foundations had no desire to leave … Read more