IDEX’s artists-in-residence program demonstrates the role of the present moment, courage, and improvisation in social change By Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director, and Jennifer Lentfer, Director of Communications, both of IDEX We can admit that many of us entered with trepidation into IDEX’s artists-in-residence program. With a career in nonprofit and global development, we’ve become skilled…
“There needs to be a call to action in this field around relationships and trust.” – Jamie Allison, S. H. Cowell Foundation I was in the audience when Jamie (also a TWI trustee) made that compelling statement last September during the closing plenary of Towards a Better Place: A Conversation about Promising Practice in Place-Based…
As I pondered where to start my series of reflections on barriers to multi-year, unrestricted funding, a scene from two years ago came to mind: I was at The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s national conference in Detroit. It was the “Q&A” portion of a plenary session on the meeting’s last day and someone stood up…
This article was first published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, we thought it would be a good one to share. American communities with high standards of living often have low charitable giving rates, a new Chronicle analysis finds. Text by Rebecca Koenig and visuals by Meredith Myers In a state with a moderate standard of…
I continue to be encouraged by the steady stream of reports and commentaries that touch on important aspects of what TWI calls trust-based investing. Yet, just in terms of actually reading everything that comes my way, that stream can sometimes feel like a flood and I can’t help but wonder: what’s really sticking with folks…