The following was released in the Stanford Social Innovation Review today by Kierra Johnson of United for Reproductive and Gender Justice. TWI heartily endorses these thoughtful practices, as they mirror tips we shared earlier this year! As someone who’s been in the nonprofit sector for almost two decades, I have spent a lot of time working…
We are pleased to share that The Whitman Institute’s Co-Executive Director, Pia Infante, is a featured session leader for the upcoming Golden State Learning Series, sponsored by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. The deadline is fast approaching. Here’s the information. Sign up soon! The Golden State Learning series offers the opportunity to learn from colleagues within…
This is a repost of an article first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. By Jeri Eckhart-Queenan, Michael Etzel, & Sridhar Prasad Summer 2016 A new grantmaking approach is needed – one that provides enough money for nonprofits to pay for all their operations, not just programs and services. The first step toward achieving…
For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month ReMake made a video showing the women around the world who make our clothes; the unknown faces of our fashion. We wanted to highlight the amazing and important work of our grantee partner and shed light on a global issue.
In January, TWI grantee, the Bay Area Justice Funders Network (BAJFN) released “The Choir Book: A Framework for Social Justice Philanthropy.” One of the exciting aspects of this framework is the incorporation of trust-based practices. In the preamble, framework authors, Rachel Humphrey and Dana Kawaoka-Chen state that, “beyond the specific practices highlighted in this framework,…